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Insect-inspired Visually-guided Decentralized Swarming

Multiagent Systems 2022-06-28 v1

Abstract

This paper addresses the need for fast, lightweight, vision-guided swarming under limited computation and no explicit communication network or position source. The study develops a multi-agent optic flow sensing framework, then integrates perfect information distributed feedback with optic flow sensing to create an analogous visually-guided feedback path for idealized inter-agent velocity and distance structures. The Cucker-Smale flocking example is used to develop vision-guided swarming with rigorous asymptotic convergence guarantees, including under ignorance of agent size.

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@article{arxiv.2206.12482,
  title  = {Insect-inspired Visually-guided Decentralized Swarming},
  author = {Mehdi Yadipour and Imraan A. Faruque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12482},
  year   = {2022}
}
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