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Communications and Control—A Natural Linkage for SWARM

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We present a simple distributed concept that appears to insinuate SWARM behavior in a collection of mobile platforms. The control is based on the inter-mobile platform communication links’ signal-to-noise ratio. This double use of communications is a natural linkage for SWARM behavior.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was funded by the ATL Division of Lockheed Martin Corporation under the auspices of Harris Zebrowitz and Orest Ukrainsky. We gratefully acknowledge their encouragement and farsightedness. A version of this material was also presented at Defense Applications Signal Processing (DASP) ‘05.

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  1. General Electric Global Research Center, One Research Circle, Niskayuna, NY, 12309GE, USA

    John E. Hershey, Stephen F. Bush & Ralph T. Hoctor

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Correspondence to Stephen F. Bush.

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John Hershey, PhD, holds 99 issued US patents, has authored/co-authored seven books, was co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Academic Press Journal Digital Signal Processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Ralph T. Hoctor holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1996 he has worked at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the SPIE, holds 20 U.S. patents and has published 22 papers.

Stephen F. Bush bio appears at the end of Guest Editorial in this issue.

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Hershey, J.E., Bush, S.F. & Hoctor, R.T. Communications and Control—A Natural Linkage for SWARM. J Netw Syst Manage 14, 7–13 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-005-9010-9

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