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Coherent Formation for Agents Using Flocking with Cellular Automata

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

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While flocking assists an agent to coordinate its movement locally, it cannnot steer agents towards a particular destination in a coherent formation. We augment flocking by situating each agent in a cellular automata with local relations to neighbouring agents (which impact steering); coherent formation is thus constructed bottom-up. We implement our agents in the massive multiplayer online role playing game Lineage II in Java, and evaluate our formations with respect to coherence under different terrains. Applications include computer games, computer-generated movies and robots in hazardous environments.

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  1. Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 3086, Victoria, Australia

    Leo Bi & Richard Hall

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Bi, L., Hall, R. (2006). Coherent Formation for Agents Using Flocking with Cellular Automata. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11892960_27

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