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In this paper we first establish an analogy where we view both animals and vehicles as generic agents. We introduce a model of the ecological behavior of a group of agents and establish sufficient conditions for the group to achieve an ideal free distribution (IFD), even when we lift some of the “ideal” and “free” assumptions. Finally, we apply this model to cooperative vehicle control problems and present simulation results that show the benefits of an IFD-based distributed decision-making strategy.
This work was supported by the AFRL/VA and AFOSR Collaborative center of Control Science (Grant F33615-01-2-3154).
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Finke, J., Passino, K.M. (2011). The Ecological Ideal Free Distribution and Distributed Networked Control Systems. In: Minai, A.A., Braha, D., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17635-7_16
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