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ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2016

Symmetry and reduction in collectives: low-dimensional cyclic pursuit.

Kevin S Galloway, Eric W Justh, P S Krishnaprasad

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Article in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beacon-referenced pursuit for collective motions in three dimensions.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020
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  2. Geometric decompositions of collective motion.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2017
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  3. Symmetry and reduction in collectives: low-dimensional cyclic pursuit.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2016
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  4. Optimality, reduction and collective motion.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2015
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Kevin S GallowayDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering , US Naval Academy , Annapolis, MD 21402, USA.
Eric W JusthNaval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, USA.
P S KrishnaprasadInstitute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4557-158X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigate low-dimensional examples of cyclic pursuit in a collective, wherein each agent employs a constant bearing (CB) steering law relative to exactly one other agent. For the case of three agents in the plane, we characterize relative equilibria and pure shape equilibria of associated closed-loop dynamics. Re-scaling time yields a reduction of phase space to two dimensions and effective tools for stability analysis. Study of bifurcation of a family of collinear equilibria dependent on a single CB control parameter reveals the presence of a rich collection of trajectories that are periodic in shape and undergo precession in physical space. For collectives in three dimensions, with an appropriate notion of CB pursuit strategy and corresponding steering law, the two-agent case proves to be explicitly integrable. These results suggest control schemes for small teams of mobile robotic agents engaged in area coverage tasks such as search and rescue, and raise interesting possibilities for behaviour in biological contexts.

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constant bearingcyclic pursuitpursuit strategyreductionrelative equilibriashape dynamics

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PMID27843405
PMCPMC5095446

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