Formations of Robotic Swarm: An Artificial Force Based Approach

Cooperative control of multiple mobile robots is an attractive and challenging problem which has drawn considerable attention in the recent past. This paper introduces a scalable decentralized control algorithm to navigate a group of mobile robots (swarm) into a predefined shape in 2D space. The pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Samitha W. Ekanayake, and Pubudu N. Pathirana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-09-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/formations-of-robotic-swarm-an-artificial-force-based-approach