TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of Microscopic Behavior in Ant Traffic to Understand Jam-free Transportation
AU - Kasture, Prafull
AU - Nishimura, Hidekazu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/3/21
Y1 - 2020/3/21
N2 - In this paper, we present an analysis of microscopic behaviors of ants to understand ant interactions that lead to jam-free ant traffic. For the analysis here, we use an agent-based model of ant traffic and mathematical analysis of key scenarios on the ant trail to understand relations between ants' environment and the interactions of ants with it. Our analysis indicates that ants increase their velocity for decreasing headway, which leads to a peculiar jam absorption mechanism. We also show that ants on trail collect information about flow in the recent past, which allows them to make informed decisions about their travel. Based on our observation, we propose that mimicking an ant communication system could help individuals in man-made transportation systems to make better decisions for higher efficiency, which could improve the efficiency of overall system.
AB - In this paper, we present an analysis of microscopic behaviors of ants to understand ant interactions that lead to jam-free ant traffic. For the analysis here, we use an agent-based model of ant traffic and mathematical analysis of key scenarios on the ant trail to understand relations between ants' environment and the interactions of ants with it. Our analysis indicates that ants increase their velocity for decreasing headway, which leads to a peculiar jam absorption mechanism. We also show that ants on trail collect information about flow in the recent past, which allows them to make informed decisions about their travel. Based on our observation, we propose that mimicking an ant communication system could help individuals in man-made transportation systems to make better decisions for higher efficiency, which could improve the efficiency of overall system.
KW - ant-traffic
KW - emergent behavior
KW - intelligent transportation system
KW - jam-free traffic
KW - self organization
KW - swarm-intelligence
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U2 - 10.1145/3396474.3396491
DO - 10.1145/3396474.3396491
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086142659
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 59
EP - 64
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence, ISMSI 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence, ISMSI 2020
Y2 - 21 March 2020 through 22 March 2020
ER -