Justin and I try to build a kind of vehicle which imitates ants’ food gathering behavior. Ant is almost blind, thus it searches food through its sense of touch. Once it finds food, it will go back to its cave and leave hormone on its way back. Then other ants will follow the hormone to find food.
For simplicity, we will use a large paper panel to build a six-route plane. Two ants will search each route. Once one ant finds food. The other ant will stop and turn back to the start point. Then it will go straight to the route with food. Schematic diagrams are showed below.
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Remarks: It is our very first proposal. Thus the steps may change due to limitations of our capability and practical effect.