KMS Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, CAS
| Design, analysis, and application of projected k-winner-take-all network | |
Liang, Siqi1,2; Peng, Bo3,4 ; Stanimirovic, Predrag S.5; Jin, Long1,2,3
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| 2023-04-01 | |
| 摘要 | Competition is considered to be a driving force of many swarm systems in maintaining vitality, as important as collaboration. To model this competitive nature, an operation called k-winner-take-all (kWTA) is introduced that can output k maximum values from p input signals with 1 6 k 6 p. In this paper, different projection functions (PFs) are com-bined with kWTA operations as activation functions for the first time, and a P-kWTA net-work is proposed, analyzed, and applied, which accelerates the convergence rate and enhances the robustness of existing models. With the aid of various characteristics, such as saturated or nonconvex, the convergent process of the proposed P-kWTA network is able to present diverse effects of PFs. Additionally, numerical simulations, an application to a multi-agent system, and an experiment of multiple E-puck robots on the CoppeliaSim plat-form all demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the P-kWTA network.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | k-winner-take-all(kWTA) Projection function Multi-agent system Competitive coordination Task allocation |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ins.2022.11.090 |
| 发表期刊 | INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| ISSN | 0020-0255 |
| 卷号 | 621页码:74-87 |
| 通讯作者 | Jin, Long(jinlongsysu@foxmail.com) |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000900939600005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
