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Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent

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Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `Soft Control', which keeps the local rule of the existing agents in the system. We show the feasibility of soft control by a case study. Consider the simple but typical distributed multi-agent model proposed by Vicsek et al. for flocking of birds: each agent moves with the same speed but with different headings which are updated using a local rule based on the average of its own heading and the headings of its neighbors. Most studies of this model are about the self-organized collective behavior, such as synchronization of headings. We want to intervene in the collective behavior (headings) of the group by soft control. A specified method is to add a special agent, called a `Shill', which can be controlled by us but is treated as an ordinary agent by other agents. We construct a control law for the sh...
Jing Han, Ming Li, Lei Guo
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where CORR
Authors Jing Han, Ming Li, Lei Guo
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