A ﬁre ant inspired multi-agent system: a useful contribution to the ocean cleanup problem

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Vreeswijk, G.A.W.
dc.contributor.author	Tuijl, R.W. van
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-03T17:01:12Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-03T17:01:12Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/29228
dc.description.abstract	The pollution of our environment is currently an issue that requires our immediate attention. One part of this problem is the plastic pollution of the oceans. An upcoming area of research in solving this problem is the application of robotics. In this paper the behaviour of ﬁre ants is used as an inspiration in a model that simulates the cleaning of ocean trash. In order to determine if the addition of the ﬁre ant behaviour to this ocean cleanup model is useful, the model is compared to a veriﬁcation model. A comparison of the two models showed that the model with the additional ﬁre ant behaviour performs better signiﬁcantly. These results indicate that further research in this area is worth the eﬀort.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.format.extent	3117369
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	A ﬁre ant inspired multi-agent system: a useful contribution to the ocean cleanup problem
dc.type.content	Bachelor Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	ocean cleanup, environmental cleanup, fire ants, swarm robotics, multi-agent system, plastic pollution
dc.subject.courseuu	Kunstmatige Intelligentie