Control of Many Agents Using Few Instructions
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of controlling a group of agents under the constraint that every agent must be given the same control input. This problem is relevant for the control of mobile micro-robots that all receive the same power and control signals through an underlying substrate. Despite this restriction, several examples in simulation demonstrate that it is possible to get a group of micro-robots to perform useful tasks. All of these tasks are derived by thinking about the relationships between robots, rather than about their individual states. Download: Bibtex: @INPROCEEDINGS{ Bretl-RSS-07, AUTHOR = {T. Bretl}, TITLE = {Control of Many Agents Using Few Instructions}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, YEAR = {2007}, ADDRESS = {Atlanta, GA, USA}, MONTH = {June}, DOI = {10.15607/RSS.2007.III.027} }