
Chapter 10
Ant-Inspired Allocation:
Top-Down Controller
Design for Distributing
a Robot Swarm among
Multiple Tasks
Spring Berman,
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Ad
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amHal
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asz, and M. Ani Hsieh
Contents
10.1 Introduction ............................................................. 244
10.2 Background .............................................................. 246
10.2.1 RelatedWork ................................................... 246
10.2.2 AntHouse-Hunting ............................................ 247
10.3 ProblemStatement ...................................................... 248
10.3.1 Definitions...................................................... 249
10.3.2 LinearModel.................................................... ...