Engineering and Technology

Cross-inhibition leads to group consensus despite the presence of strongly opinionated minorities and asocial behaviour

A. Reina, R. Zakir, et al.

This groundbreaking research by Andreagiovanni Reina, Raina Zakir, Giulia De Masi, and Eliseo Ferrante explores how cross-inhibition can promote group consensus even when facing stubborn minorities and asocial behavior. Their findings, demonstrated through robot swarm experiments, reveal a robust mechanism for creating resilient robotic systems designed for challenging environments.

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Abstract

This paper investigates how cross-inhibition facilitates group consensus in the presence of inflexible minorities and asocial behavior. The authors compare the cross-inhibition model with the voter model and weighted voter model, demonstrating that cross-inhibition enables stable majority decisions even with high levels of asocial behavior, unlike the other models. This is confirmed through experiments with robot swarms, suggesting a mechanism for designing resilient, minimalistic robotic systems.

Publisher

Communications Physics

Published On

Aug 29, 2023

Authors

Andreagiovanni Reina, Raina Zakir, Giulia De Masi, Eliseo Ferrante

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