Abstract:The problem of guiding a flock of agents to a destination by the repulsion forces exerted by a smaller number of external agents is called the shepherding problem. This problem has attracted attention due to its potential applications, including diverting birds away for preventing airplane accidents, recovering spilled oil in the ocean, and guiding a swarm of robots for mapping. Although there have been various studies on the shepherding problem, most of them place the uniformity assumption on the dynamics of … Show more
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