APPLICATION OF THE LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL IN MODELLING ROBOT MOTION

Piotr Wójcicki


Lublin University of Technology (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0522-6223

Tomasz Zientarski

t.zientarski@pollub.pl
Lublin University of Technology (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-5316

Abstract

The article proposes a method of controlling the movement of a group of robots with a model used to describe the interatomic interactions. Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out in a system consisting of a moving groups of robots and fixed obstacles. Both the obstacles and the group of robots consisted of uniform spherical objects. Interactions between the objects are described using the Lennard-Jones potential. During the simulation, an ordered group of robots was released at a constant initial velocity towards the obstacles. The objects’ mutual behaviour was modelled only by changing the value of the interaction strength of the potential. The computer simulations showed that it is possible to find the optimal value of the potential impact parameters that enable the implementation of the assumed robotic behaviour scenarios. Three possible variants of behaviour were obtained: stopping, dispersing and avoiding an obstacle by a group of robots.


Keywords:

swarm, Lennard-Jones potential, molecular dynamics simulation

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2019-12-15

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Wójcicki, P., & Zientarski, T. (2019). APPLICATION OF THE LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL IN MODELLING ROBOT MOTION. Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary W Gospodarce I Ochronie Środowiska, 9(4), 14–17. https://doi.org/10.35784/iapgos.45

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Piotr Wójcicki 

Lublin University of Technology Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0522-6223

Authors

Tomasz Zientarski 
t.zientarski@pollub.pl
Lublin University of Technology Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-5316

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