Ozdemir, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-0014-4699, Romanishin, J., Groß, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-1375 et al. (1 more author) (2019) Decentralized gathering of stochastic, oblivious agents on a grid: A case study with 3D M-Blocks. In: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS). 2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS'19), 22-23 Aug 2019, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. IEEE , pp. 245-251. ISBN 9781728128771
Abstract
We propose stochastic control policies for gathering a group of embodied agents in a two-dimensional square tile environment. The policies are fully decentralized and can be executed on anonymous, oblivious agents with chirality, but no sense of orientation. The agents require only 4 ternary digits of information. We prove that a group of agents, irrespective of initial positions, will almost surely reach a Pareto optimal configuration in finite time. For one of the control policies, computer simulations show that groups of up to 20 agents consistently reach Pareto optimal configurations, whereas groups of 1000 agents, given the same amount of time, improve the compactness of their configurations on average by 89.20%. The policy also copes well with sensory noise up to a level of 50%. We also present an experimental validation using 6 physical 3D M-Block modules, demonstrating the feasibility of the stochastic control approach in practice.
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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: | 09 Aug 2019 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2020 01:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/MRS.2019.8901074 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149451 |