The Open Electrical & Electronic Engineering Journal

2014, 8 : 240-244
Published online 2014 December 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874129001408010240
Publisher ID: TOEEJ-8-240

Effect of Communication Modes to Swarm Robotic Search

Songdong Xue , Chaoli Sun , Jianchao Zeng , Yaochu Jin and Ran Cheng
Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, 66 Waliu Rd, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, China.

ABSTRACT

Interactions in swarm robotic search are explored for intelligence emergence based on Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) model. For this end, the best combination of proper properties in typical versions of PSO is transferred to swarm robotic search. Synchronous / asynchronous communication modes and respective control strategies under conditions of parallel distributed control are comparatively studied by simulations. The results showed that the asynchronous communication mode predominates over its synchronous opponent in efficiency.

Keywords:

Communication, particle swarm optimization, swarm robots, target search.