Accession Number:

ADA478708

Title:

Using Artificial Physics to Control Agents

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Spears, William M.
• Gordon, Diana F.

Report Date:

1999-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

We introduce a novel framework called artificial physics, which provides distributed control of large collections of agents. The agents react to artificial forces that are motivated by natural physical laws. This framework provides an effective mechanism for achieving self-assembly, fault-tolerance, and self-repair. Examples are shown for various regular geometric configurations of agents. A further example demonstrates that self-assembly via distributed control can also perform distributed computation.

Descriptors:

• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• CONTROL
• COMPUTATIONS
• DETECTORS
• DISTRIBUTION
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• COLLECTION
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• PHYSICS
• GEOMETRIC FORMS

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE