Lotka-Volterra’s Prey-Predator Model Interpretation in a Group of Low-Cost Mobile Robots

Resumen: Prey – predator relation is a natural dynamic system with a myriad of variations. For many years, research community tried to identify its rules. Based on the observations of different trophic chains, some mathematical models arised. The most cited model is the so called Lotka-Volterra. This paper considers a variation of this model for the design of a finite state machine (FSM) algorithm to represent this natural phenomenon in a group of low-cost mobile robots. This paper focuses on the effects of including displacement of the individuals and intraspecific competition among the predator population on the set of interaction rules.  The FSM algorithm is evaluated through numerical simulations employing the physical simulation software V-Rep.

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Lizbeth Carrasco Gutiérrez, Rigoberto Martinez Clark, Javier Pliego Jimenez & César Cruz-Hernández. Lotka-Volterra's Prey-Predator Model Interpretation in a Group of Low-Cost Mobile Robots. Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, pp. 1-6, 2020.

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prey-predator, mobile robots, bio-inspired control, finite state machine

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