Waggle Dance Inspired Motion Communication for Multiple UAVs in MuJoCo

Abstract:The honeybee waggle dance motivates a communication mechanism in which one agent's movement conveys spatial information that guides other agents' actions. This paper presents a MuJoCo system that extends the point-to-point motion communication setting of MoCom to one performer and multiple observers. A performer broadcasts a six-bit navigation payload using four flight primitives and explicit null signals. Each of one to five observers processes its own onboard RGB images, extracts optical-flow trajectories, recognizes symbols, parses the message, and starts navigation only after confirming its own complete frame. Reception states and execution triggers are separate across observers, while simulation control and safety checks use shared ground truth. With stationary observers, 25 Hz image input, and ideal state-feedback control, a fixed standard suite yielded 44 correct complete messages from 53 receiver exposures across 17 nominal broadcasts; 13 broadcasts passed all group-level decoding and execution checks. Three additional no-message or input-fault controls met their expected outcomes. A separately reported supplemental suite, using the same frozen code at the default geometry, achieved 14 successful receiver exposures across three broadcasts. Near-range and wide-angle configurations exposed tracking and recognition failures, while unsuccessful receivers remained stationary. These finite simulation results support the feasibility of a waggle-dance-inspired broadcast-to-action mechanism under the tested conditions and identify the present perceptual and protocol limits.

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2609.16958 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2609.16958v1 [cs.RO] for this version)

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