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Shepherding Control for Separating a Single Agent from a Swarm

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IFAC PAPERSONLINE
卷 55, 期 40, 页码 217-222

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.01.075

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Swarm control; Separation; Shepherding

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This paper addresses the problem of controlling a swarm to spatially separate a specific target agent from other agents while maintaining connectivity. The authors propose a movement algorithm for an external agent called a shepherd, which applies repulsive forces to the agents in the swarm. The study has potential applications in manipulating swarms of micro- and nano-particles. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through numerical simulations.
In this paper, we consider the swarm-control problem of spatially separating a specified target agent within the swarm from all the other agents, while maintaining the connectivity among the other agents. We specifically aim to achieve the separation by designing the movement algorithm of an external agent, called a shepherd, which exerts repulsive forces on the agents in the swarm. This problem has potential applications in the context of the manipulation of the swarm of micro- and nano-particles. We first formulate the separation problem, where the swarm agents (called sheep) are modeled by the Boid model. We then analytically study the special case of two-sheep swarms. By leveraging the analysis, we then propose a potential function-based movement algorithm of the shepherd to achieve separation while maintaining the connectivity within the remaining swarm. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with numerical simulations. Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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