Perez-Diaz, F., Zillmer, R. and Gross, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-1375 (2017) Control of synchronization regimes in networks of mobile interacting agents. Physical Review Applied, 7 (5). 054002.
Abstract
We investigate synchronization in a population of mobile pulse-coupled agents with a view towards implementations in swarm robotics systems and mobile sensor networks. Previous theoretical approaches dealt with range and nearest neighbor interactions. In the latter case, a synchronization-hindering regime for intermediate agent mobility was found. In the present work, we investigate the robustness of this intermediate regime under practical scenarios. We show that synchronization in the intermediate regime can be predicted by means of a suitable metric of the phase response curve. Furthermore, we study more realistic K-nearest neighbors and cone of vision interactions, showing that it is possible to control the extent of the synchronization-hindering region by appropriately tuning the size of the neighborhood. To assess the effect of noise, we analyze the propagation of perturbations over the network and draw an analogy between the response in the hindering regime and stable chaos. Our findings reveal the conditions for the control of clock or activity synchronization of agents with intermediate mobility. In addition, the emergence of the intermediate regime is validated experimentally using a swarm of physical robots interacting with cone of vision interactions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2017. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/0. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2017 11:49 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2017 15:34 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.054002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.054002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115818 |