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This paper complements the results and analysis shown in current studies on the evolution of signalling and cooperation. It describes operational aspects of the evolved behaviour of a group of robots equipped with a different set of sensors, that navigates towards a target in a walled arena. In particular, analysis of the sound signalling behaviour shows that the robots employ the sound to remain close to each other at a safe distance with respect to the risk of collisions. Spatial discrimination of the sound sources is achieved by exploiting a rotational movement which amplifies intensity differences between the two sound sensors.
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Tuci, E., Ampatzis, C., Vicentini, F., Dorigo, M. (2006). Operational Aspects of the Evolved Signalling Behaviour in a Group of Cooperating and Communicating Robots. In: Vogt, P., Sugita, Y., Tuci, E., Nehaniv, C. (eds) Symbol Grounding and Beyond. EELC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4211. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11880172_10
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