Abstract
Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodriguez, Jean-Philippe Malric, Nancy M. Amato, "Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds," In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot.
Autom. (ICRA), Apr 2005.
Proceedings(ps, pdf, abstract)
Shepherding behaviors are a type of group behaviors
in which one group (the shepherds) tries to control the
motion of another group (the flock). Shepherding behaviors
can be found in many forms in nature and have various
important robotic applications. In this paper we extend
our previous work of shepherding behaviors with a single
shepherd to multiple shepherds. More specifically, we study
how a group of shepherds can work cooperatively without
communication to efficiently control the flock.