Complexity, robustness, self-organization, swarms, and system thermodynamics

In this paper, we develop a thermodynamic framework for addressing consensus problems for Eulerian swarm models. Specifically, we present a distributed boundary controller architecture involving the exchange of information between uniformly distributed swarms over an n-dimensional (not necessarily Euclidian) space that guarantee that the closed- loop system is consistent with basic thermodynamic principles. Information consensus and semistability are shown using the well-known Sobolev embedding theorems and the notion of generalized (or weak) solutions. Finally, since the closed-loop system is guaranteed to satisfy basic thermodynamic principles, robustness to individual agent failures and unplanned individual agent behavior is automatically guaranteed.

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