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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2015
Melanie E. Moses, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Joshua P. Hecker, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Kenneth Letendre, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Karl Andrew Stolleis, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Melanie E. Moses, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Joshua P. Hecker, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Kenneth Letendre, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Karl Andrew Stolleis, Santa Fe, NM (US);
STC.UNM, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a swarm of robots and a related method of operating the swarm. The robots are programmed to start at a nest and to select a dispersal direction from a uniform random distribution. The robots travel along the dispersal direction until transitioning to a search mode upon reaching a search site, where the robot performs a correlated random walk with fixed step size and direction and using a standard deviation to determine how correlated the direction of the next step of the robot is with the direction of the previous step. If no resource is found within predetermined time t independently determined by each of said robots, the robot returns to the nest and repeats the above steps.