Communication-Free Distributed Coverage for Networked Systems
Systems and Control
2016-02-01 v1 Computer Science and Game Theory
Multiagent Systems
Robotics
Optimization and Control
Abstract
In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily deployed on some nodes of the graph. Any node of the graph is covered if it is within the sensing range of at least one agent. The agents are mobile devices that aim to explore the graph and to optimize their locations in a decentralized fashion by relying only on their sensory inputs. We formulate this problem in a game theoretic setting and propose a communication-free learning algorithm for maximizing the coverage.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.06379,
title = {Communication-Free Distributed Coverage for Networked Systems},
author = {A. Yasin Yazicioglu and Magnus Egerstedt and Jeff S. Shamma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06379},
year = {2016}
}