2006 • Conference Paper
Control and information architectures for formations
Authors:
Anderson, B.D.O.,
Yu, C.,
Fidan, B.,
Hendrickx, Julien
Published in:
CCA
This paper reviews a number of concepts and results relevant to the design of architectures to maintain the shape of a formation of autonomous agents. The paper begins with motivating examples from nature and the man- made world, and emphasises the task of providing satisfactory sensing, communication and control architectures within a formation of autonomous agents. Then some technical tools for characterising and designing architectures are described, largely resting on graph theoretic considerations.