Ants: Brood Sorting
- System Behavior: An and hill houses larvae, eggs,
cocoons, and food. The ant colony keeps all of them
separate.
- Responsibilities:
- Wander randomly.
- Sense nearby objects and maintain a short memory.
- If object found and not carrying object then decide
stochastically whether to pick it up. The probability of a
pickup decreases if the ant has recently encountered similar
objects.
- If carrying something then decide stochastically whether
to drop it. The probability of dropping increases if the ant
has recently encountered similar object.
- Integration: As concentration grows, the likelihood
that they will get bigger increases. The put-down probability
must be bigger than the pick-up, otherwise clusters will
disperse faster than they form. The memory cannot be too
long.
José M. Vidal
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