IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.49, No.6, 981-983, 2004
Coordinated collective motion of groups of autonomous mobile robots: Analysis of Vicsek's model
This note gives a qualitative analysis of the dynamics of a system consisting of several mobile robots coordinating their motion using simple local nearest neighbor rules. We show that under some assumptions the headings of all robots will be eventually constant.
Keywords:decentralized control;groups of autonomous vehicles;multiagent coordination;multirobot system;robot formation control