Title :
Stability analysis of swarms
Author :
Gazi, Veysel ; Passino, Kevin M.
Abstract :
We specify an "individual-based" continuous time model for swarm aggregation in n-dimensional space and study its stability properties. We show that the individuals (autonomous agents or biological creatures) will form a cohesive swarm in a finite time. Moreover, we obtain an explicit bound on the swarm size, which depends only on the parameters of the swarm model.
Keywords :
biology; multi-agent systems; stability; autonomous agents; biological creatures; cohesive swarm; individual-based continuous time model; n-dimensional space; stability analysis; swarm aggregation; swarm size; swarms; Automotive engineering; Autonomous agents; Biological system modeling; Continuous time systems; Distributed control; Electronic mail; Land vehicles; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Stability analysis;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7298-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2002.1023830
