Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
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Print ISSN : 0453-4654
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Modeling of Sheepdog Control
Shun-ichi AZUMAAyako TABUCHIToshiharu SUGIE
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2012 Volume 48 Issue 12 Pages 882-888

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This paper develops a mathematical model of a sheepdog control strategy, in order to clarify a principle for controlling autonomously (and randomly) moving multiple agents. First, by observing real behaviors of a sheepfold and a sheepdog, we extract their essential properties as a multi-agent system. Based on this, difference equations are constructed for the sheep and sheepdog. It is verified by numerical simulations that the proposed model captures their qualitative behaviors.

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