Self-organising impact boundaries in ageless aerospace vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Howard Lovatt;Geoff Poulton;Don Price;Mikhail Prokopenko;Philip Valencia;Peter Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia;Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia;Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia;Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia;Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia;Ageless Aerospace Vehicles and Smart Spaces project, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Self-monitoring, self-repairing aerospace vehicles require modular, flexible and adaptive sensing and communication networks. In general, a modular (multi-cellular) sensing and communication network is expected to detect and react to impact location, energy and damage over a wide range of impacts. It is critical that global response emerges as a result of interactions involving transfer of information embedded locally, avoiding single points-of-failure. This work presents mechanisms ensuring self-organisation of autonomous cells into robust and continuously connected impact boundaries. The spatiotemporal stability is demonstrated for a variety of cell shapes in a dynamic environment with varying energy dissipation and damage probability models.