Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots
Masi, Giulia De 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3284-880X, Prasetyo, Judhi, Zakir, Raina, Mankovskii, Nikita, Ferrante, Eliseo and Tuci, Elio
(2021)
Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots.
Swarm Intelligence, 15
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pp. 315-338.
ISSN 1935-3812
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(doi:10.1007/s11721-021-00197-3)
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Abstract
Abstract: In this paper we study a generalized case of best-of-n model, which considers three kind of agents: zealots, individuals who remain stubborn and do not change their opinion; informed agents, individuals that can change their opinion, are able to assess the quality of the different options; and uninformed agents, individuals that can change their opinion but are not able to assess the quality of the different opinions. We study the consensus in different regimes: we vary the quality of the options, the percentage of zealots and the percentage of informed versus uninformed agents. We also consider two decision mechanisms: the voter and majority rule. We study this problem using numerical simulations and mathematical models, and we validate our findings on physical kilobot experiments. We find that (1) if the number of zealots for the lowest quality option is not too high, the decision-making process is driven toward the highest quality option; (2) this effect can be improved increasing the number of informed agents that can counteract the effect of adverse zealots; (3) when the two options have very similar qualities, in order to keep high consensus to the best quality it is necessary to have higher proportions of informed agents.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Article, Collective decision-making, Swarm intelligence, Swarm robotics, Stubborn agents |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology |
| Item ID: | 34230 |
| Notes on copyright: | © The Author(s) 2021
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| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2021 15:50 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2021 15:50 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/34230 |
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