Shepherding control and herdability in complex multiagent systems

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Autori principali: Lama, Andrea, di Bernardo, Mario
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author Lama, Andrea
di Bernardo, Mario
author_facet Lama, Andrea
di Bernardo, Mario
contents We study the shepherding control problem where a group of "herders" need to orchestrate their collective behaviour in order to steer the dynamics of a group of "target" agents towards a desired goal. We relax the strong assumptions of targets showing cohesive collective behavior in the absence of the herders, and herders owning global sensing capabilities. We find scaling laws linking the number of targets and minimum herders needed, and we unveil the existence of a critical threshold of the density of the targets, below which the number of herders needed for success significantly increases. We explain the existence of such a threshold in terms of the percolation of a suitably defined herdability graph and support our numerical evidence by deriving and analysing a PDE describing the herders dynamics in a simplified one-dimensional setting. Extensive numerical experiments validate our methodology.
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spellingShingle Shepherding control and herdability in complex multiagent systems
Lama, Andrea
di Bernardo, Mario
Statistical Mechanics
Systems and Control
We study the shepherding control problem where a group of "herders" need to orchestrate their collective behaviour in order to steer the dynamics of a group of "target" agents towards a desired goal. We relax the strong assumptions of targets showing cohesive collective behavior in the absence of the herders, and herders owning global sensing capabilities. We find scaling laws linking the number of targets and minimum herders needed, and we unveil the existence of a critical threshold of the density of the targets, below which the number of herders needed for success significantly increases. We explain the existence of such a threshold in terms of the percolation of a suitably defined herdability graph and support our numerical evidence by deriving and analysing a PDE describing the herders dynamics in a simplified one-dimensional setting. Extensive numerical experiments validate our methodology.
title Shepherding control and herdability in complex multiagent systems
topic Statistical Mechanics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16797