Infotaxis

Quick meaning: Infotaxis is a noun meaning Any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.

Meaning

Any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.

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2006–7, Massimo Vergassola et al., "‘Infotaxis’ as a strategy for searching without gradients", in Nature, volume 445, pages 406–409 (2007 January 25)

In the framework of the so-called infotaxis algorithm any search process can be thought of as acquisition of information on source location. Thus information plays a role similar to concentration in chemotaxis. Then the infotaxis strategy locally maximizes the expected rate of information gain.

Some literatures investigated the odor source localization by robots mimicking biologic behaviors, such as chemotaxis [1] and anemotaxis [2], or custom algorithms like fluxotaxis [3] and infotaxis [4]. The multi-robot system has more advantages than single robot in odor source localization. First, the expected search time can be decreased. Second, the multi-robot system does not easily fall into local maxima.

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Related dictionary entries include clinotaxis, mnemotaxis, klinotaxis, biotaxis, telotaxis, taxis.

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