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Main Authors: Celani, Antonio, Panizon, Emanuele
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03374
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author Celani, Antonio
Panizon, Emanuele
author_facet Celani, Antonio
Panizon, Emanuele
contents The task of olfactory search is ubiquitous in nature and in technology, from animals in the quest of food or of a mating partner, to robots searching for the source of hazardous fumes in a chemical plant. Here, we focus on the algorithmic approach to this task: we systematically review the different olfactory search strategies. Special emphasis is given to the formal description as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, which allows the computation of optimal actions and helps clarifying the relationships between several effective heuristic search strategies.
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spellingShingle Olfactory search
Celani, Antonio
Panizon, Emanuele
Biological Physics
The task of olfactory search is ubiquitous in nature and in technology, from animals in the quest of food or of a mating partner, to robots searching for the source of hazardous fumes in a chemical plant. Here, we focus on the algorithmic approach to this task: we systematically review the different olfactory search strategies. Special emphasis is given to the formal description as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, which allows the computation of optimal actions and helps clarifying the relationships between several effective heuristic search strategies.
title Olfactory search
topic Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03374