Abstract
Having introduced you to NetLogo and physics in the previous chapter, this chapter starts to investigate swarms and swarm applications. We focus on how swarms of robots can self-organize into formation, and then move in formation towards a goal while avoiding obstacles. You can think of this formation as a moving distributed computer. Each robot is a “node” in this computer that can share information with neighboring nodes. As we will see in later chapters, this is useful for numerous applications such as finding and tracking sources of chemical and biological leaks. Through the use of several NetLogo simulations we show how different virtual forces between the robots yield different behaviors. Finally, we show how to use simple equations to control the behaviors in order to create desired effects. The equations are used repeatedly throughout the book for various applications.
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Spears, W.M. (2011). NetLogo and Physicomimetics. In: Spears, W., Spears, D. (eds) Physicomimetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22804-9_3
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