Predator-Prey Interactions through Heterogeneous Coverage Control Using Reaction-Diffusion Processes

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Authors

Ruoyu Lin, Magnus Egerstedt

Abstract

We developed a decentralized predator-prey interaction scheme based on a heterogeneous cooperative control strategy driven by reaction-diffusion processes, where the heterogeneity is understood along five modalities in terms of the dynamics of predators and prey. The proposed scheme can be applied to diverse applications, e.g., deployments of teams of: mobile robots for eroded beach monitoring or to clean oil spills, underwater robots for halobios/ocean floor/coral reefs monitoring, and aerial robots to put out (ideally modeled) wildfires.

Link

R. Lin and M. Egerstedt, “Predator-Prey Interactions through Heterogeneous Coverage Control Using Reaction-Diffusion Processes,” in 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Dec. 2023.

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