Control of Many Agents Using Few Instructions
Timothy Bretl · 2007
This paper considers the problem of controlling a group of agents under the constraint that every agent must be given the same control input.This problem is relevant for the control of mobile micro-robots that all receive the same power and control signals through an underlying substrate.Despite this restriction, several examples in simulation demonstrate that it is possible to get a group of micro-robots to perform useful tasks.All of these tasks are derived by thinking about the relationships between robots, rather than about their individual states.