Abstract
The control principle of mobile robots, self-organized in convoy structure, is considered. It is shown that in this case a high autonomy of swarm operation may be achieved, due to such parameters of motion, as swarm azimuth angle and velocity of movement may be set only for the master robot, while slave robots follow master one at the pre-determined distance. The flowchart of the swarm control system is worked out, according which all slave robots measure their own deviation from the direction on previous swarm unit and distance till it, and actuate mechanics of the robot for zeroing azimuth angles difference and setting pre-determined distance. Mathematical models of the swarm, as the united object under control, and of the distributed Von Neumann controller, which closes control system, are worked out. It is shown, that characteristic equation of closed system have complex exponent at the left side, which is due to time delays, born by Von Neumann type controllers. Method of evaluation of time delays, based on semi-Markov simulation of control algorithm, is proposed. Theoretical results are confirmed by modeling the motion control of a convoy, including pair mobile robots.
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Larkin, E.V., Akimenko, T.A., Bogomolov, A.V. (2022). Self-organizing Mobile Robots Swarm Movement Control Simulation. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Niu, B. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09726-3_6
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