Improving Energy Efficiency in Cooperative Foraging Swarm Robots Using Behavioral Model

Abstract

Multi-robot foraging systems can assist human beings to collect crops or minerals, efficiently. As being wider searching spaces, the robot control system demands scalability and reliability. For handling this limitation, in particular, swarm robotics has been considered due to its strengths such as self-organization, robustness and flexibility. However, it stipulates high initial, operating cost as employing the multi-robot foraging system. To address these drawbacks, this paper presents a novel distributed foraging mechanism. The aim is to adopt a new behavioral model regarding role division and search space division for improving energy efficiency. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms an existing foraging robot system.