— Heterogeneous multi-robot networks require novel tools for applications that require achieving and maintaining formations. This is the case for distributing sensing devices wit...
Brian Stephen Smith, Jiuguang Wang, Magnus Egerste...
In prior work we established how physicomimetics can be used to self-organize hexagonal and square lattice formations of mobile robots. In this paper we extend the framework to mo...
William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, D...
From an engineering point of view, the problem of coordinating a set of autonomous, mobile robots for the purpose of cooperatively performing a task has been studied extensively o...
Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro...
stems. Three layers of control abstraction for formation control are formation shape, reference type, and robotic control. Reference types play an important role in formation contr...