Network Information Interaction of Swarm Agents: Technical and Software Implementation

Abstract

The features of the structural and functional construction of an intellectual swarm system due to the specifics of the information interaction of its agents are analyzed. Discussed the following concepts of managing agents are given: individual agents implement individual movement processes and the swarm is considered as an unmanaged cloud formation; a collective movement of agents is performed, in which the swarm is a single controlled entity. The enlarged composition of the technical, information and software of the main components of the swarm system is given: the central control body of the system; local control bodies of overlay leaders; on-board navigation and agent control systems. It is shown that for multi-agent systems, it is fundamentally necessary to organize the flow mode of asynchronous supply of information blocks in the form of digital packets to computing equipment. With this in mind, a generalized scheme for organizing the functioning of asynchronous processes in a swarm system is constructed. This scheme is based on the use of hardware information interruption mechanisms associated with the supervisor of the operating system processes. The tasks of the swarm system supervisor are defined, which are to ensure initialization, priority launch for execution and mutual synchronization of main types of software processes. The essence of the method of pseudorandom adjustment of the operating frequency in the agent’s radio communication is revealed.