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SUMMARY:CAESAR Seminar: Kevin M. Passino: "Stable Cooperative Agent Distr
 ibutions in Biology and Engineering"
CREATED:20061110T120000Z
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:The problem of how to perform decentralized coordina
 tion of the spatial distribution of agents is found in a number of appli
 cations. Autonomous robots with range-limited communication and sensing 
 radii must coordinate their decisions on where to allocate their sensing
  resources to achieve prioritized surveillance of multiple widely disper
 sed areas. A hive of honey bees allocates foragers according to forage s
 ite profitability without a central coordinator. In this talk\, a mathem
 atical model of the behavior of a group of agents and their interactions
  in a shared environment is introduced. Environmental spatial constraint
 s are included to model range-limited sensing\, motion\, and communicati
 on capabilities of the agents. General sensing\, coordination\, and moti
 on conditions on the agents are derived that guarantee that an "ideal fr
 ee distribution" (IFD) of the group of agents will emerge. The impact of
  group size and environment type on the distribution of agents is quanti
 fied. Applications of the theory to a multivehicle cooperative surveilla
 nce problem and honey bee social foraging are discussed.
LAST-MODIFIED:20061110T120000Z
LOCATION:141 Coordinated Science Laboratory
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER:japplequ@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/442?key=200001012000010146227
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