The Ant Stack

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Overview

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The Ant Stack is a modular framework designed to emulate an ant's physical and cognitive functions, comprising three layers: AntBody, AntBrain, and AntMind. It aims to facilitate research in myrmecology and synthetic intelligence through its interoperable design and explicit input/output contracts.

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Use Notes

Concise findings and methods pulled from README/SKILL documentation.

Findings / Concepts

An explicit, executable Input/Output contract between Body, Brain, and Mind layers.
A compact neural control pipeline with local plasticity.
A minimal active-inference ant nestmate agent that composes via stigmergy.
A standardized evaluation suite with species presets for direct replication.

Methods / Techniques

Coupling physics-based locomotion with olfactory-visual sensing.
Implementing a lightweight neural pipeline for active-inference policy selection.
Using pheromone-mediated stigmergy for agent composition.
Specifying evaluation suites for navigation, task allocation, and robustness.

Citation

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2025. The Ant Stack. Zenodo.

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