Title :
Using artificial physics to control agents
Author :
Spears, William M. ; Gordon, Diana F.
Author_Institution :
AI Center, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
We introduce a novel framework called “artificial physics”, which provides distributed control of large collections of agents. The agents react to artificial forces that are motivated by natural physical laws. This framework provides an effective mechanism for achieving self-assembly, fault-tolerance, and self-repair. Examples are shown for various regular geometric configurations of agents. A further example demonstrates that self-assembly via distributed control can also perform distributed computation
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; multi-agent systems; software agents; agents; artificial forces; artificial physics; distributed computation; distributed control; fault tolerance; natural physical laws; regular geometric agent configurations; self-assembly; self-repair; Artificial intelligence; DNA computing; Distributed control; Force control; Laboratories; Microelectromechanical systems; Neurons; Physics computing; Quantum computing; Self-assembly;
Conference_Titel :
Information Intelligence and Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bethesda, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0446-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICIIS.1999.810278
