International Journal of Robotics Research
Adaptive action selection for cooperative agent teams
Proceedings of the second international conference on From animals to animats 2 : simulation of adaptive behavior: simulation of adaptive behavior
Cooperative multiagent robotic systems
Artificial intelligence and mobile robots
Distributed Anonymous Mobile Robots: Formation of Geometric Patterns
SIAM Journal on Computing
Self-stabilization
Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control
Communications of the ACM
From Natural to Artificial Swarm Intelligence
From Natural to Artificial Swarm Intelligence
Experiments in Realising Cooperation between Autonomous Mobile Robots
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics V
Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Cooperative mobile robotics: antecedents and directions
IROS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Analyzing Teams of Cooperating Mobile Robots
Analyzing Teams of Cooperating Mobile Robots
Interaction and intelligent behavior
Interaction and intelligent behavior
Investigating the Adaptiveness of Communication in Multi-Agent Behavior Coordination
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Theoretical Computer Science
Self-organized flocking with a mobile robot swarm
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1
Arbitrary pattern formation by asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious robots
Theoretical Computer Science
Using eventually consistent compasses to gather memory-less mobile robots with limited visibility
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Get in touch: cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Fault-Tolerant Flocking in a k-Bounded Asynchronous System
OPODIS '08 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
Using focal point learning to improve tactic coordination in human-machine interactions
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Oracle-Based Flocking of Mobile Robots in Crash-Recovery Model
SSS '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
Moving targets tracking and observing in a distributed mobile sensor network
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
Positional consensus in multi-agent systems using a broadcast control mechanism
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
Flocking control of a mobile sensor network to track and observe a moving target
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
A Resilient and Scalable Flocking Scheme in Autonomous Vehicular Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Stabilizing flocking via leader election in robot networks
SSS'07 Proceedings of the 9h international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
Mobile Networks and Applications
Using focal point learning to improve human---machine tacit coordination
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Convergence of autonomous mobile robots with inaccurate sensors and movements
STACS'06 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
Dynamic target tracking and observing in a mobile sensor network
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Collaborative search on the plane without communication
PODC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Data mobility in peer-to-peer systems to improve robustness
AP2PC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Deterministic geoleader election in disoriented anonymous systems
Theoretical Computer Science
Human-swarm interactions based on managing attractors
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
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In this paper, we study the distributed coordination and control of a set of asynchronous, anonymous, memoryless mobile vehicles that can freely move on a two-dimensional plane but cannot communicate among themselves. In particular, we analyze the problem of forming a certain pattern and following a designated vehicle, referred to as the leader, while maintaining the pattern: the flocking problem. We provide an algorithm to solve the flocking problem, together with theoretical considerations on its correctness and applicability, and numerical simulation showing the actual behavior of the algorithm. We also propose two variants of the algorithm sporting a more stable convergence, and analyze how different conditions on the equipment available to the vehicles and on the amount of knowledge they share affect the kind of patterns that can be formed.