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  title info:
    title: Flocking and Rendezvous in Distributed Robotics
  name:
    name part: Francis, Bruce A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Maggiore, Manfredi.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 105 p. 64 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This brief describes the coordinated control of groups of robots using only sensory input – and no direct external commands. Furthermore, each robot employs the same local strategy, i.e., there are no leaders, and the text also deals with decentralized control, allowing for cases in which no single robot can sense all the others. One can get intuition for the problem from the natural world, for example, flocking birds. How do they achieve and maintain their flying formation? Recognizing their importance as the most basic coordination tasks for mobile robot networks, the brief details flocking and rendezvous. They are shown to be physical illustrations of emergent behaviors with global consensus arising from local interactions. The authors extend the consideration of these fundamental ideas to describe their operation in flying robots and prompt readers to pursue further research in the field. Flocking and Rendezvous in Distributed Robotics will provide graduate students a firm grounding in the subject, while also offering an authoritative reference work for more experienced workers seeking a brief but thorough treatment of an area that has rapidly gained in interest.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Models of Mobile Robots in the Plane -- Admissible Controls and the Robot Flocking Problem -- The Robot Rendezvous Problem: Limited Camera Range -- A Convoy Problem -- A Look into the Future: Flying Robots.
  note: by Bruce A. Francis, Manfredi Maggiore.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  subject:
    topic: Control engineering
  subject:
    topic: Robotics
  subject:
    topic: Automation
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Robotics and Automation
  subject:
    topic: Control
  subject:
    topic: Systems Theory, Control
  classification: TJ210.2-211.495
  classification: T59.5
  classification: 629.892
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  identifier: 9783319247298
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24729-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 151024
    record change date: 20170520064455.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-24729-8