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Methods and apparatus for swarm navigation of multiple agents

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posted on 2016-06-07, 00:00 authored by Matthias Scheutz, Peter Bauer
A swarm navigation system is disclosed. The swarm navigation system includes a plurality of mobile agents, each having a receiver and capable of receiving a collision avoidance signal or a target attraction signal from a remote source. A stereo antenna system and memory storing instructions cause the mobile agent to determine the intensity and direction of the received collision avoidance signal or the received target attraction signal and to navigate the mobile agent substantially towards the received target attraction signal and substantially away from the received collision avoidance signal. Each mobile agent may further include a collision avoidance beacon mounted to the mobile agent and adapted to broadcast a collision avoidance signal, and a target attraction beacon mounted to the mobile agent and adapted to selectively broadcast a target attraction signal.

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Patent Number

US 8234067 B2

Other Application

12/181,036

Inventor

Peter Bauer Matthias Scheutz

Inventor from Local Institution

Peter Bauer Matthias Scheutz

Assignee

University of Notre Dame Du Lac

Date Modified

2016-06-07

Language

  • English

Claims

21

Prior Publication Number

US 20090099768 A1

Publisher

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Cooperative Patent Classification Codes

G01C 21/005 (20130101); G08G 1/0962 (20130101); G08G 1/0968 (20130101); G08G 1/161 (20130101)

Contributor

Peter Bauer|Matthias Scheutz

International Patent Classification Codes

G06F 21/00 (20060101); G08G 1/16 (20060101)

US Patent Classification Codes

701/467; 701/301

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