Title :
Control and information architectures for formations
Author :
Brian D.O. Anderson;Changbin Yu;Baris Fidan;Julien M. Hendrickx
Author_Institution :
National ICT Australia Ltd. and Research School of Information Science and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2061, Australia
Abstract :
This paper reviews a number of concepts and results relevant to the design of architectures to maintain the shape of a formation of autonomous agents. The paper begins with motivating examples from nature and the manmade world, and emphasises the task of providing satisfactory sensing, communication and control architectures within a formation of autonomous agents. Then some technical tools for characterising and designing architectures are described, largely resting on graph theoretic considerations.
Keywords :
"Birds","Communication system control","Remotely operated vehicles","Shape control","Marine animals","Autonomous agents","Underwater vehicles","Receiving antennas","Insects","Displays"
Conference_Titel :
Computer Aided Control System Design, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2006 IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
2165-302X
DOI :
10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4776802
