Experiments in automatic flock control

Citation
R. Vaughan et al., Experiments in automatic flock control, ROBOT AUT S, 31(1-2), 2000, pp. 109-117
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
AI Robotics and Automatic Control
Journal title
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
ISSN journal
09218890 → ACNP
Volume
31
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
109 - 117
Database
ISI
SICI code
0921-8890(20000430)31:1-2<109:EIAFC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The Robot Sheepdog Project has developed a mobile robot that gathers a floc k of ducks and manoeuvres them safely to a specified goal position. This is the first example of a robot system that exploits and controls an animal's behaviour to achieve a useful task. A potential-field model of flocking be haviour was constructed and used to investigate methods for generalised hoc k control. One possible algorithm is described and demonstrated to work bot h in simulation and in the real world. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All r ights reserved.