1.College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050 2.Division of System Simulation and Computer Application, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024
Abstract Inspired by physicomimetic approach, a physicomimetics framework for swarm robots search is presented. The virtual forces among robots are defined by Newton's law of gravity. The relationships are constructed between robots' sensing intensity of the target signal and their virtual masses, and the virtual interaction rules are established among robots. The simulation results indicate the superiority of the proposed approach in search efficiency and precision.
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