Terrain navigation by vibrating potential method

The paper presents an approach to terrain navigation by the vibrating potential method (VPM). In our VPM, the energy interactions on the problem considered are represented as the dynamical interactions of autonomous agents, which are defined as wave motions. We define the terrain information and vehicles as vibrating potential fields (VPF). The vehicle can decide its own movement through detection of the wave motion in the environmental surroundings. We explain the VPM, and then apply this method to navigate vehicles on the dynamical field by computer simulations