Agent swarms: Cooperation and coordination under stringent communications constraint.

ABSTRACT: Here we consider the communications tactics appropriate for a group of agents that need to "swarm" together in a challenging communications environment. Swarms are increasingly important in a number of applications, including land, air, sea and space exploration, and their constituent agents could be satellites, drones, or other autonomous vehicles. A particularly difficult problem is to autonomously connect a swarm of agents together in a situation where stringent communication constraints are present, whether due to a need for stealth, restricted on-board power, external requirements to avoid certain broadcast directions, or equipment & hardware limitations. Here we present a novel, discrete, geometry-free model applicable to multi-agent swarm communications where a group of agents need

SUBMITTER: Kinsler P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11633978 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature