Flocking and Rendezvous in Distributed Robotics

by Manfredi Maggiore and Bruce A Francis

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 robot can sense all the others. One can get intuition for the problem from the natural world, for example, flocking birds. How do they achieve and maintain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319247271
• ISBN13: 9783319247274
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 105 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"