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This paper presents a cooperative control framework developed based on the inspiration from the immune system for controlling networked multi-agent systems. The framework is inspired from the meta-dynamics of lymphocyte repertoires in the adaptive immune system, including the continual circulation, continual turnover, concentration control and other relevant mechanisms. We design this framework for the control of a team of autonomous defending agents in RoboFlag Drill, a test-bed for studying cooperative systems. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed immunity inspired cooperative control framework. The results of the simulations demonstrated that a set of defenders- can intercept attacker sets with larger set sizes from entering a specific Defense Zone for 60% of the randomly generated RoboFlag Drill problem instances.
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Lu, S.Y.P., Lau, H.Y.K. (2009). An Immunity Inspired Real-Time Cooperative Control Framework for Networked Multi-agent Systems. In: Andrews, P.S., et al. Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_23
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