Explored how robot flock can keep staying together and moving toward a goal through a specific course collaboratively. The goal of robots is to minimize the average distance of each robot from the centroid of the distribution of robots without colliding and minimize the distance of the centroid from the closest point on the line at each time step while making progress toward the goal location.
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Case 1: 25 robots flocking together and moving along the course
Case 2: 25% robots guiding the others towards the goal
Case 3: 25% robots herding the others towards the goal
And here’s a video showing robots tracking targets cooperatively: