Overview
- Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion?
- Presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks etc. coordinate themselves and how this can be used for the organization of groupings of autonomous mobile agents
- Useful for researchers, practitioners, as well as students in cooperative control
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS, volume 309)
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Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion and if so what might they be? This carefully edited book presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks, deer herds etc. coordinate themselves and move so flawlessly, often without an apparent leader or any form of centralized control. It shows how the underlying principles of cooperative control may be used for groups of mobile autonomous agents to help enable a large group of autonomous robotic vehicles in the air, on land or sea or underwater, to collectively accomplish useful tasks such as distributed, adaptive scientific data gathering, search and rescue, or reconnaissance.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cooperative Control
Book Subtitle: A Post-Workshop Volume, 2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control
Editors: Vijay Kumar, Naomi Leonard, A. Stephen Morse
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b99788
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22861-5Published: 20 October 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31595-7Published: 12 November 2004
Series ISSN: 0170-8643
Series E-ISSN: 1610-7411
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 291
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Systems Theory, Control, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive Engineering