Swarm intelligence for cooperation of bio-nano robots using quorum sensing

摘要

Bio-nano robots are nano-scaled robots made from biological components like proteins and DNA structures. Their nano-scaled size, ready availability (in nature), and high efficiency make them perfect tools for diagnosis and therapeutic treatments in nano-medicine. Due to their nano-scaled size, the intelligence of each individual nano robot is small when compared to that of the collection of nano robots acting together to accomplish the given task. This group intelligence, called swarm intelligence, helps the nano robots do their task more effectively, more quickly, and with fewer other resources. The coordination to accomplish the given task can be achieved by these nano robots through quorum sensing. Quorum sensing is the ability of nano robots to communicate and coordinate behavior via signaling molecules. The whole scenario of communication and coordination can be done using these nano-scaled robots and the results are studied using simulation at a high level of abstraction