TY - GEN
T1 - Biologically-Inspired Control for Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Tasks
AU - Yu, Chih Han
AU - Nagpal, Radhika
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by an NSF EMT Grant (CCF-0829745) and Wyss Institute for Bio-inspired Engineering.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2010, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/7/15
Y1 - 2010/7/15
N2 - Decentralized agent groups typically require complex mechanisms to accomplish coordinated tasks. In contrast, biological systems can achieve intelligent group behaviors with each agent performing simple sensing and actions. We summarize our recent papers on a biologically-inspired control framework for multi-agent tasks that is based on a simple and iterative control law. We theoretically analyze important aspects of this decentralized approach, such as the convergence and scalability, and further demonstrate how this approach applies to real-world applications with a diverse set of multi-agent applications. These results provide a deeper understanding of the contrast between centralized and decentralized algorithms in multi-agent tasks and autonomous robot control.
AB - Decentralized agent groups typically require complex mechanisms to accomplish coordinated tasks. In contrast, biological systems can achieve intelligent group behaviors with each agent performing simple sensing and actions. We summarize our recent papers on a biologically-inspired control framework for multi-agent tasks that is based on a simple and iterative control law. We theoretically analyze important aspects of this decentralized approach, such as the convergence and scalability, and further demonstrate how this approach applies to real-world applications with a diverse set of multi-agent applications. These results provide a deeper understanding of the contrast between centralized and decentralized algorithms in multi-agent tasks and autonomous robot control.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010
SP - 1702
EP - 1707
BT - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010
PB - AAAI press
T2 - 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010
Y2 - 11 July 2010 through 15 July 2010
ER -