Autonomous distributed control0502001-13
A control method that makes distributed individual work cooperate
autonomously without any external control.
Even though the individual works are simple, they function
cooperatively in combination and perform complex work. Autonomous distributed control is
particularly suitable for micromachine control. Following is a typical example. In a coordinated
handling system by multiple autonomous robots, the object's aimed path is given only to the leader
robot, and the other robots, called as followers, estimate the motion of the leader by observing the
object's motion and controlling themselves individually.