Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm

Self‐organized formation is a key direction in swarm robotics. It is still challenging to design local interactions toward desired global formations and even more challenging for dynamic formations in a physical robot swarm system. Herein, a self‐organized method for emergent dynamic circling format...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyang Qin, Yongliang Yang, Yongtao Qiu, Mengyun Pan, Jing Hou, Lianqing Liu
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-05-01
Series:Advanced Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400572
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author Xiaoyang Qin
Yongliang Yang
Yongtao Qiu
Mengyun Pan
Jing Hou
Lianqing Liu
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description Self‐organized formation is a key direction in swarm robotics. It is still challenging to design local interactions toward desired global formations and even more challenging for dynamic formations in a physical robot swarm system. Herein, a self‐organized method for emergent dynamic circling formation in a robot swarm through optical interactions is proposed. First, this method is quantitatively modeled based on the geometrical relations among robots. This model is further adjusted according to the characteristics of the robot swarm system. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this model, the effects of three key parameters of this model are tested on the size and disorder level of the emergent dynamic circling formation. The experimental results are consistent with the model predictions. Overall, a robot swarm system, in the physical environment, is quantitatively controlled to emerge a dynamic circling formation in this article. This work advances the swarm robotics for quantitatively designing local interactions among robots to reliably emerge dynamic global patterns.
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spelling doaj-art-8f75b2eeb5ae4b99bd456d25e1b8dbc32025-08-20T01:55:22ZengWileyAdvanced Intelligent Systems2640-45672025-05-0175n/an/a10.1002/aisy.202400572Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot SwarmXiaoyang Qin0Yongliang Yang1Yongtao Qiu2Mengyun Pan3Jing Hou4Lianqing Liu5State Key Laboratory of Robotics Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang 110016 ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang 110016 ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang 110016 ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang 110016 ChinaSchool of Electrical and Control Engineering Shenyang Jianzhu University Shenyang 110186 ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang 110016 ChinaSelf‐organized formation is a key direction in swarm robotics. It is still challenging to design local interactions toward desired global formations and even more challenging for dynamic formations in a physical robot swarm system. Herein, a self‐organized method for emergent dynamic circling formation in a robot swarm through optical interactions is proposed. First, this method is quantitatively modeled based on the geometrical relations among robots. This model is further adjusted according to the characteristics of the robot swarm system. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this model, the effects of three key parameters of this model are tested on the size and disorder level of the emergent dynamic circling formation. The experimental results are consistent with the model predictions. Overall, a robot swarm system, in the physical environment, is quantitatively controlled to emerge a dynamic circling formation in this article. This work advances the swarm robotics for quantitatively designing local interactions among robots to reliably emerge dynamic global patterns.https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400572dynamic formationmorphogenetic engineeringself‐organized systemswarm roboticssystem modeling
spellingShingle Xiaoyang Qin
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Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
Advanced Intelligent Systems
dynamic formation
morphogenetic engineering
self‐organized system
swarm robotics
system modeling
title Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
title_full Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
title_fullStr Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
title_full_unstemmed Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
title_short Emergent Dynamic Formation through Optical Interactions in a Robot Swarm
title_sort emergent dynamic formation through optical interactions in a robot swarm
topic dynamic formation
morphogenetic engineering
self‐organized system
swarm robotics
system modeling
url https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400572
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