COMPARISON OF THREE ORIENTATION AGREEMENT STRATEGIES IN SELF-PROPELLED PARTICLE SYSTEMS WITH TURN ANGLE RESTRICTIONS IN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS SETTINGS

In this study, we compare three different orientation agreement strategies of multi-agent/particle systems under different conditions. We investigate the behavior of multi-agent systems utilizing these strategies with different combinations of the following properties: (i) the multi-agent systems may be synchronous or asynchronous, (ii) they may travel in bounded or unbounded regions and (iii) the mobile agents may have turning speed restrictions. The agents/particles are assumed to move with constant speed and update their orientation of motion based on three different strategies. Based on these strategies, simulations are performed and the effects on the clustering performance are investigated. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society