Swarming behaviors in multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics
- Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096 (China)
- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, ITM, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
- Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)
- Department of Control Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074 (China)
The dynamic analysis of a continuous-time multi-agent swarm model with nonlinear profiles is investigated in this paper. It is shown that, under mild conditions, all agents in a swarm can reach cohesion within a finite time, where the upper bounds of the cohesion are derived in terms of the parameters of the swarm model. The results are then generalized by considering stochastic noise and switching between nonlinear profiles. Furthermore, swarm models with limited sensing range inducing changing communication topologies and unbounded repulsive interactions between agents are studied by switching system and nonsmooth analysis. Here, the sensing range of each agent is limited and the possibility of collision among nearby agents is high. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the validity of the theoretical analysis.
- OSTI ID:
- 22251927
- Journal Information:
- Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.), Vol. 23, Issue 4; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1054-1500
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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