TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed control of swarm motions as continua using homogeneous maps and agent triangulation
AU - Rastgoftar, Hossein
AU - Jayasuriya, Suhada
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, presented is an approach for the control of swarm motions that treats a swarm as a deformable body or a continuum. By considering a special class of motion maps between a current configuration prescribed at a given time t and a desired configuration prescribed at a subsequent time t+Δt called a homogeneous map two strategies are proposed for the control of a swarm or a multi-agent system (MAS). In the first strategy, MAS motion control is achieved with no communication among agents in the idealized case where the required map from any t to t+Δt may be predetermined. It is the case when a desired swarm task can be scripted ahead of time with some certainty. The second control strategy is based on three leaders prescribing the motion map for a desired swarm task which is then propagated to the followers via a local inter-agent communication protocol. The proposed communication protocol exploits some special features of homogeneous maps. It achieves the desired MAS motion control with three leaders and minimum inter-agent communications. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.
AB - In this paper, presented is an approach for the control of swarm motions that treats a swarm as a deformable body or a continuum. By considering a special class of motion maps between a current configuration prescribed at a given time t and a desired configuration prescribed at a subsequent time t+Δt called a homogeneous map two strategies are proposed for the control of a swarm or a multi-agent system (MAS). In the first strategy, MAS motion control is achieved with no communication among agents in the idealized case where the required map from any t to t+Δt may be predetermined. It is the case when a desired swarm task can be scripted ahead of time with some certainty. The second control strategy is based on three leaders prescribing the motion map for a desired swarm task which is then propagated to the followers via a local inter-agent communication protocol. The proposed communication protocol exploits some special features of homogeneous maps. It achieves the desired MAS motion control with three leaders and minimum inter-agent communications. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.
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U2 - 10.23919/ecc.2013.6669392
DO - 10.23919/ecc.2013.6669392
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893319705
SN - 9783033039629
T3 - 2013 European Control Conference, ECC 2013
SP - 2824
EP - 2830
BT - 2013 European Control Conference, ECC 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 12th European Control Conference, ECC 2013
Y2 - 17 July 2013 through 19 July 2013
ER -