A Practical Approach to Robotic Swarms

H.M. Schwartz and S.N. Givigi Jr. (Canada)

Keywords

Swarm Robotics, Control, Stability

Abstract

This paper presents a practical and intuitive method for de signing distributed controls for swarm robotics. Each indi vidual robot follows a relatively simple control law. It is demonstrated that the robots will collectively achieve a lo cally stable swarm. It will also be shown that the robots will be able to avoid obstacles and then reconfigure the swarm. Simulation is used to demonstrate the performance of the technique.

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