Title :
Cooperative “curvature-driven” control of mobile autonomous sensor agent network
Author :
Ariaei, Fariba ; Jonckheere, Edmond
Author_Institution :
Southern California Univ., Los Angeles
Abstract :
We present a stable, real time, curvature-driven, control strategy for a network of mobile autonomous sensing agents to move and reconfigure cooperatively in response to a sensed, distributed environment. Our control strategy decouples, in part, the network estimation of the environment and the cooperative management of the agents´ maneuvers and network formation. This framework provides an effective basis for self-organization.
Keywords :
distributed control; graph theory; sensor fusion; agents cooperative management; cooperative curvature-driven control; distributed environment; graph curvature; mobile autonomous sensor agent network; network estimation; network formation; Autonomous agents; Chemical sensors; Environmental management; Gaussian distribution; Geometry; Mathematics; Mobile agents; Nearest neighbor searches; Terminology; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2007 46th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1497-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0191-2216
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2007.4435022