Collective Memory: Transposing Pavlov’s Experiment to Robot Swarms

Remembering information is a fundamental aspect of cognition present in numerous natural systems. It allows adaptation the behavior as function previously encountered situations. For instance, many living organisms use memory to recall if given situation incurred penalty or reward and rely on that avoid reproduce situation. In groups, commonly studied case where individual members are themselves capable learning few them hold pieces can be later retrieved for benefits group. Here, we investigate how group may display when have reactive behaviors not learn any information. The well known conditioning experiments Pavlov illustrate single animals memorize stimuli associated with trigger related behavioral response even absence reward. To study demonstrate collective artificial systems, get inspiration from propose setup tailored testing our robotic swarm. We devised novel based process aggregation which robots exhibit memory. show encoding, storing, retrieving at level individuals.