A physicomimetics control framework for swarms of Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Autor: Charles Lee Frey, Edith A. Widder, B. Ramos, Christer Karlsson, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, Jerry Hamann, Dimitri Zarzhitsky
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: OCEANS 2008.
DOI: 10.1109/oceans.2008.5151855
Popis: Teams of autonomous cooperating vehicles are well-suited for meeting the challenges associated with mobile marine sensor networks. Swarms built using a physicomimetics approach exhibit predictable behavior - an important benefit for extended duration deployments of autonomous ocean platforms. By using a decentralized control framework, we minimize energy consumption via short-range communication and self-contained on-board data processing, all without a specified leader. We introduce the task of autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) navigation inside a bioluminescent plume to motivate future study of how the agility and scalability of our physics-based solution can benefit a mobile distributed sensor network.
Databáze: OpenAIRE