A Survey of Potential Functions for Multi-agent Systems
I recently conducted a minor survey on potential functions in the context of multi-agent systems. Collective potential functions are a common way to produce desired separation between agents in a swarm. Fig. 1 provides an illustration of one such scenario. Fig. 1: Illustration of potential functions in action. Note that the agents maintain some common distance between eachother, except when navigating around the obstacles in yellow. Potential A common potential function used in molecular dynamics and lattice formation with equilibrium distances is the Lennard-Jones potential function: ...