Bio-Inspired Swarm Navigation on Resource-Constrained Robots for GPS-Denied Environments.

Chandan Sheikder, Weimin Zhang, Xiaopeng Chen, Fangxing Li, Xiaohai He, Haotong He, Shicheng Fan, Xinyan Tan

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chandan SheikderSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1459-8747

Weimin ZhangSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6632-0144

Xiaopeng ChenSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.

Fangxing LiSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1928-363X

Xiaohai HeSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0009-0006-3813-6757

Haotong HeSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.

Shicheng FanSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0009-0009-8570-8182

Xinyan TanSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0009-0004-2550-1386

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Abstract

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ant colony optimisationbio-inspired navigationdual-modality pheromone systemembedded machine learningGPS-denied localisationMobileNetV3onboard machine learningpath planningresource-constrained robotsstigmergyswarm roboticsvirtual pheromone

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PMID42281041

DOI10.3390/s26113525

PMCPMC13259157

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