Jorge Cortés
Professor
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
Coverage control for mobile sensing networks: variations on a theme
J. Cortés, S. Martínez, T. Karatas, F. Bullo
Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2002
Abstract
This paper discusses dynamical systems for disk-covering and
sphere-packing problems. We present facility location functions from
geometric optimization and characterize their differentiable
properties. We design and analyze a collection of distributed control
laws that are related to nonsmooth gradient systems. The resulting
dynamical systems promise to be of use in coordination problems for
networked robots; in this setting the distributed control laws
correspond to local interactions between the robots. The technical
approach relies on concepts from computational geometry, nonsmooth
analysis, and the dynamical system approach to algorithms.
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