Robustness of infotaxis with respect to variations and limited knowledge of the propagation of volatile organic compounds
- Juan Duque Rodríguez 1
- Pilar Barreiro
- David Gómez-Ullate
- 3, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio 1
- 1 UPM
- Ayuga Téllez, Francisco (coord.)
- Masaguer Rodríguez, Alberto (coord.)
- Mariscal Sancho, Ignacio (coord.)
- Villarroel Robinson, Morris (coord.)
- Ruiz-Altisent, Margarita (coord.)
- Riquelme Ballesteros, Fernando (coord.)
- Correa Hernando, Eva Cristina (coord.)
Editorial: Fundación General de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
ISBN: 84-695-9055-3, 978-84-695-9055-3
Año de publicación: 2014
Páginas: 836-841
Congreso: Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas (7. 2013. Madrid)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
In this work we present a theoretical information based strategy known as infotaxis as an effective and robust navigation system for a robotic platform to localize the source of a disease in a crop plantation through chemical detection of volatile compounds. We present a numerical analysis of the robustness of infotaxis with respect to an inaccurate modeling of the medium and we study the efficiency of the strategy as a function of the parameters of the transport process. Our results show that infotaxis is a robust strategy able to deal with the fluctuations, inhomogeneities and unpredictability of real environments. The correlation length of the concentration field is shown to play a key role in the efficiency of infotaxis.