A physically grounded approach to coordinate movements in a team

L. Leonardi1, M. Mamei2, F. Zambonelli2
1Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellE28099Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emila, Italy
2Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dellE28099Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emila, Italy

Tóm tắt

Focuses on the problem of coordinating the movements of a cooperative team in an environment, and proposes an approach that takes inspiration from the laws of physics. The idea is to have the movements of team members driven by abstract force fields, generated by team members themselves and propagated via some embedded infrastructure. A globally coordinated and self-organized behavior in team members' movements emerges due to the interrelated effects of team members following the shape of the fields and of dynamic fields re-shaping. A case study in the area of warehouse management is introduced to exemplify the proposed approach.

Từ khóa

#Mobile computing #Teamwork #Shape #Power engineering computing #Dynamic programming #Distributed computing #Physics #Communications technology #Application software #Hardware

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