Immunology-inspired swarm coordination with application to multiple combat UGV systems

Liguo WENG; Wenchuan CAI; Ran ZHANG; M. BIKDASH; Y. D. SONG

doi:10.1109/WCICA.2008.4593449

Immunology-inspired swarm coordination with application to multiple combat UGV systems

Liguo WENG^*
, Wenchuan CAI
, Ran ZHANG
, M. BIKDASH
, Y. D. SONG

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Immune system has several interesting and desirable properties such as adaptability, robustness, flexibility, archival memory, and distributed cognition abilities. This paper presents a multi-agent scheme with swarm coordination functions inspired by immune system. It is shown that by using local communication, each agent is able to select its favorite strategy based on distributed sensing, which leads to successful swarm behavior, and performs well even under dynamically changing environment. Furthermore, in the proposed scheme a thymus-like global coordination mechanism called a critic here is introduced to prevent undesirable crowding, thus improving the overall swarming behavior as verified by numerical simulation on a collection of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). © 2008 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	3293-3298
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781424421138
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCICA.2008.4593449
Publication status	Published - 25 Sept 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation - Chongqing, China Duration: 25 Jun 2008 → 27 Jun 2008

Congress

Congress	2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation
Country/Territory	China
City	Chongqing
Period	25/06/08 → 27/06/08

Keywords

Bio-inspired
Cooperative operation
Swarm cooperation

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WENG, L, CAI, W, ZHANG, R, BIKDASH, M & SONG, YD 2008, Immunology-inspired swarm coordination with application to multiple combat UGV systems. in Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08., 4593449, IEEE, pp. 3293-3298, 2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, 25/06/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCICA.2008.4593449

Immunology-inspired swarm coordination with application to multiple combat UGV systems. / WENG, Liguo; CAI, Wenchuan; ZHANG, Ran et al.
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08. IEEE, 2008. p. 3293-3298 4593449.

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