Abstract
This note gives a qualitative analysis of the dynamics of a system consisting of several mobile robots coordinating their motion using simple local nearest neighbor rules. We show that under some assumptions the headings of all robots will be eventually constant.
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Mobile robotRobotMotion (physics)Collective motionk-nearest neighbors algorithmConstant (computer programming)Computer scienceQualitative analysisSimple (philosophy)Collective behaviorDynamics (music)Artificial intelligenceMathematicsControl theory (sociology)PhysicsControl (management)
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- 2004
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- article
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 981-983
- Citations
- 300
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Andrey V. Savkin
(2004).
Coordinated Collective Motion of Groups of Autonomous Mobile Robots: Analysis of Vicsek's Model.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
, 49
(6)
, 981-983.
https://doi.org/10.1109/tac.2004.829621
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- DOI
- 10.1109/tac.2004.829621