Flocking and Rendezvous in Distributed Robotics

This brief describes the coordinated control of groups of robots using only sensory input – and no direct external commands. Furthermore, each robot employs the same local strategy, i.e., there are no leaders, and the text also deals with decentralized control, allowing for cases in which no single...

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Main Authors: Francis, Bruce A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Maggiore, Manfredi. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24729-8
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Models of Mobile Robots in the Plane
  • Admissible Controls and the Robot Flocking Problem
  • The Robot Rendezvous Problem: Limited Camera Range
  • A Convoy Problem
  • A Look into the Future: Flying Robots.