TY - JOUR
T1 - A Comprehensive Review of Shepherding as a Bio-Inspired Swarm-Robotics Guidance Approach
AU - Long, Nathan K.
AU - Sammut, Karl
AU - Sgarioto, Daniel
AU - Garratt, Matthew
AU - Abbass, Hussein A.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to sophisticated problems. The concept of swarming, inspired by nature, can be described as the emergence of complex system-level behaviors from the interactions of relatively elementary agents. Due to the effectiveness of solutions found in nature, bio-inspired swarming-based control techniques are receiving a lot of attention in robotics. One method, known as swarm shepherding, is founded on the sheep herding behavior exhibited by sheepdogs, where a swarm of relatively simple agents are governed by a shepherd (or shepherds) which is responsible for high-level guidance and planning. Many studies have been conducted on shepherding as a control technique, ranging from the replication of sheep herding via simulation, to the control of uninhabited vehicles and robots for a variety of applications. A comprehensive review of the literature on swarm shepherding is presented in order to reveal the advantages and potential of the approach to be applied to a plethora of robotic systems in the future.
AB - The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to sophisticated problems. The concept of swarming, inspired by nature, can be described as the emergence of complex system-level behaviors from the interactions of relatively elementary agents. Due to the effectiveness of solutions found in nature, bio-inspired swarming-based control techniques are receiving a lot of attention in robotics. One method, known as swarm shepherding, is founded on the sheep herding behavior exhibited by sheepdogs, where a swarm of relatively simple agents are governed by a shepherd (or shepherds) which is responsible for high-level guidance and planning. Many studies have been conducted on shepherding as a control technique, ranging from the replication of sheep herding via simulation, to the control of uninhabited vehicles and robots for a variety of applications. A comprehensive review of the literature on swarm shepherding is presented in order to reveal the advantages and potential of the approach to be applied to a plethora of robotic systems in the future.
KW - Autonomous vehicles
KW - shepherding
KW - swarm guidance
KW - swarm robotics
KW - herding
KW - uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV)
KW - swarm intelligence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085758706&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TETCI.2020.2992778
DO - 10.1109/TETCI.2020.2992778
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85085758706
VL - 4
SP - 523
EP - 537
JO - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
JF - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
SN - 2471-285X
IS - 4
ER -