Decentralized Control of an Energy Constrained Heterogeneous Swarm for Persistent Surveillance

Robot swarms are envisioned in applications such as surveillance, agriculture, search-and-rescue operations, and construction. The decentralized nature of swarm intelligence has three key advantages over traditional multi-robot control algorithms: it is scalable, it is fault tolerant, and it is not...

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Main Author: Advani, Nikhil Kamalkumar
Other Authors: Eugene Eberbach, Committee Member
Format: Others
Published: Digital WPI 2017
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/408
https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=etd-theses