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Autonomous control of vehicles has recently attracted considerable attention. In this sense, vehicle merging has become an important topic in this field of research. However, in conventional studies, the controlled vehicle must calculate the movement of other surrounding vehicles to complete the merge, requiring high computational costs. In this paper, we focus on dragonfly behavior to solve this issue. Indeed, insects can behave adaptively in the complex real world in spite of the limited size of their brains. They reduce the computational requirements of their brain by relying on different properties of their surroundings, basing their intelligent behaviors on simple strategies. The behavior of a dragonfly when chasing a prey is an example of these strategies. In this study, we address the vehicle merging maneuver by applying dragonfly’s strategies to control the movement of the merging vehicle. We propose a simple control method inspired by the aforementioned strategies and, finally, we present simulation results that were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
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This research was partially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 15K00316.
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Ito, K., Sakuraba, N. & Yamaguchi, K. A control law for vehicle merging inspired by dragonfly behavior. Artif Life Robotics 22, 153–162 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-016-0342-1
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