Similarities and sensitivity: Immune and ant algorithms applied towards robotics

Abstract

Over the last five and a half decades, the focus of mainstream artificial intelligence was on creating computers and algorithms that display some human cognitive abilities. Over time, bio-inspired artificial intelligence has shown great success. The ideas of bio-inspired artificial intelligence are taken from biological systems and applied to solve artificial intelligence problems. The future robots and computational devices will have diverse artificial systems including immune systems. The current paper studies the similarities between Ant-based algorithms and Artificial Immune Systems and their further steps in the development of robots. We study the sensitive approaches and several related robotic applications solved by means of both presented algorithms.