Natural swarms arranged from cells to herds are usually decentralized but display intriguing collective intelligence in coordinating individuals across large scales to efficiently achieve their common *** from nature ...
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Natural swarms arranged from cells to herds are usually decentralized but display intriguing collective intelligence in coordinating individuals across large scales to efficiently achieve their common *** from nature may provide new strategies for controlling collective dynamics of synthetic swarms to accomplish specific ***,we present a bioinspired computational framework that steers distributed active swarms to collectively capture and merge targets via reinforcement *** exploit collective milling structures of natural herds to cage the targets,and adopt a switching control policy inspired by sperms’chiral dynamics to optimize the trajectories of individuals,through which the active swarms can selforganize to enclose single or multiple distant targets in a dynamical,adaptive and scalable *** exists a critical swarm size,beyond which the excessive competition between agents would generate large mechanical forces,leading to capture instability but enabling the transition from short-distance to long-distance merging capture of multiple *** work provides physical insights into distributed active swarms and could offer a multilevel,decentralized strategy toward controlling swarm robotics in wide applications such as bio-medical devices,machine immunity,and target clearance.
This paper studies a novel distributed optimization problem that aims to minimize the sum of the non-convex objective functionals of the multi-agent network under privacy protection, which means that the local objecti...
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This paper studies a novel distributed optimization problem that aims to minimize the sum of the non-convex objective functionals of the multi-agent network under privacy protection, which means that the local objective of each agent is unknown to others. The above problem involves complexity simultaneously in the time and space aspects. Yet existing works about distributed optimization mainly consider privacy protection in the space aspect where the decision variable is a vector with finite dimensions. In contrast, when the time aspect is considered in this paper, the decision variable is a continuous function concerning time. Hence, the minimization of the overall functional belongs to the calculus of variations. Traditional works usually aim to seek the optimal decision function. Due to privacy protection and non-convexity, the Euler-Lagrange equation of the proposed problem is a complicated partial differential ***, we seek the optimal decision derivative function rather than the decision function. This manner can be regarded as seeking the control input for an optimal control problem, for which we propose a centralized reinforcement learning(RL) framework. In the space aspect, we further present a distributed reinforcement learning framework to deal with the impact of privacy protection. Finally, rigorous theoretical analysis and simulation validate the effectiveness of our framework.
Forest fires pose a significant threat to human life and property,so the utilization of unmanned aircraft systems provides new ways for forest *** the constrained load capacities of these aircraft,aerial refueling bec...
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Forest fires pose a significant threat to human life and property,so the utilization of unmanned aircraft systems provides new ways for forest *** the constrained load capacities of these aircraft,aerial refueling becomes crucial to extend their operational time and *** order to address the complexities of firefighting missions involving multi-receiver and multi-tanker deployed from various airports,first,a fuel consumption calculation model for aerial refueling scheduling is established based on the receiver ***,two distinct methods,including an integrated one and a decomposed one,are designed to address the challenges of establishing refueling airspace and allocating tasks for *** methods aim to optimize total fuel consumption of the receivers and tankers within the aerial refueling scheduling *** optimization problem is established as nonlinear optimization models along with *** integrated method seamlessly combines refueling rendezvous point scheduling and tanker task allocation into unified *** has a complete solution space and excels in optimizing total fuel *** decomposed method,through the separation of rendezvous point scheduling and task allocation,achieves a reduced computational ***,this comes at the cost of sacrificing optimality by excluding specific feasible ***,numerical simulations are carried out to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed *** simulations yield insights crucial for the practical engineering application of both the integrated and decomposed methods in real-world *** comprehensive approach aims to enhance the efficiency of forest firefighting operations,mitigating the risks posed by forest fires to human life and property.
This paper considers the problem of approximating the infinite-horizon value function of the discrete-time switched LQR *** particular,the authors propose a new value iteration method to generate a sequence of monoton...
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This paper considers the problem of approximating the infinite-horizon value function of the discrete-time switched LQR *** particular,the authors propose a new value iteration method to generate a sequence of monotonically decreasing functions that converges exponentially to the value *** method facilitates us to use coarse approximations resulting from faster but less accurate algorithms for further value iteration,and thus,the proposed approach is capable of achieving a better approximation for a given computation time compared with the existing *** numerical examples are presented in this paper to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) based methods have became popular for control and motion planning of robots, recently. Unlike sampling based motion planners, optimal policies computed by them provide feedback motion plans...
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In recent years, grid-connected inverters have gained wide prominence, primarily attributed to the surge in distributed energy resources. To ensure the reliable operation of these inverters, it is crucial to adequatel...
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Dear Editor,This letter proposes a process-monitoring method based on temporal feature agglomeration and enhancement,in which a novel feature extractor called contrastive feature extractor(CFE)extracts the temporal an...
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Dear Editor,This letter proposes a process-monitoring method based on temporal feature agglomeration and enhancement,in which a novel feature extractor called contrastive feature extractor(CFE)extracts the temporal and relational features among process *** the feature representations are enhanced by maximizing the separation among different classes while minimizing the scatter within each class.
Operation of water distribution systems (WDSs) to reduction of water leakage can be achieved by properly operating variable speed pumps (VSPs). This practical problem can be casted into a nonlinear program (NLP) where...
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Water loss happens in all water distribution systems (WDSs). To deal with such the problems, pressure management strategy should be applied to lessen the water leakage flow. The optimal pressure management is formulat...
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The topic of local planner algorithms applicable to omnidirectional mobile robots is yet to thoroughly investigated. This study investigates the performance of the most commonly implemented local planner algorithms fo...
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