Cooperative Control A Post-Workshop Volume 2003 Block Island Workshop on Cooperative Control /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kumar, Vijay (Editor), Leonard, Naomi (Editor), Morse, A. Stephen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, 309
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Automotive engineering.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Control.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Systems Theory, Control.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Automotive Engineering.
• Physical Description: XII, 291 p. 105 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540315957
• ISSN: 0170-8643 ;

Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion and if so what might they be? This carefully edited book presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks, deer herds etc. coordinate themselves and move so flawlessly, often without an apparent leader or any form of centralized control. It shows how the underlying principles of cooperative control may be used for groups of mobile autonomous agents to help enable a large group of autonomous robotic vehicles in the air, on land or sea or underwater, to collectively accomplish useful tasks such as distributed, adaptive scientific data gathering, search and rescue, or reconnaissance.