Fast multipole networks
For robotic multiagent systems, FMNs provide a unified framework for mobility and communication with improved efficiency.
Fast multipole networks (FMNs) enable both mobility and communication for robotic multiagent systems, offering competitive communication performance with higher network efficiency per edge at marginal energy cost compared to conventional topologies.
Two prerequisites for robotic multiagent systems are mobility and communication. Fast multipole networks (FMNs) enable both ends within a unified framework. FMNs can be organized very efficiently in a distributed way from local information and are ideally suited for motion planning using artificial potentials. We compare FMNs to conventional communication topologies, and find that FMNs offer competitive communication performance (including higher network efficiency per edge at marginal energy cost) in addition to advantages for mobility.