Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots
Abstract
NSF and NASA sponsored a workshop to discuss harvesting solar power in space. One solution considered was the use of a swarm of robots to form a solar reflector. How can these robots organize to form a large parabolic structure and be effectively controlled? The approach of this project is to treat the formation as a lattice of cells. Each cell is in one of a given state governed by a set of mles. A command that indicates the geometric formation is sent to a seed robot; the formation would then transform as neighbors attain their calculated relationship based on the formation definition.
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Mead and Weinberg. "Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.Markdown
[Mead and Weinberg. "Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2006/mead2006aaai-algorithms/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{mead2006aaai-algorithms,
title = {{Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots}},
author = {Mead, Ross and Weinberg, Jerry B.},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2006},
pages = {1891-1892},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2006/mead2006aaai-algorithms/}
}