Literature Review for Upcoming Paper

This is roughly formatted at the moment, I intend to use this to review where I am on the review

General notes: Most research in the area seems to be focused on detecting the edge of a region and then swarming on the outside of that edge. Actually trying to fill in an entire region with a swarm seems rare, though perhaps I'm still missing a web of papers. My work alters the behavior of robots based on their global positions in addition to their local information, so it would probably be worth looking for related material even if it doesn't involve filling the entire region.

Authors: Andrea L. Bertozzi, Mathieu Kemp and Daniel Marthaler
Title: Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales
Journal: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 2005, Volume 309/2005, 403-405, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31595-7_2
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w58nnv6b5exmb74j/export-citation/
Notes: Describes a method for detecting the edge of a region starting from a swarm of nodes in the middle.

Authors: Shahab Kalantar, Uwe R. Zimmer
Title: Distributed shape control of homogeneous swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles
Journal: Auton Robot (2007) 22:37–53 DOI 10.1007/s10514-006-9002-y URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/f0j006527283u3n2/
Notes: Paydirt. Describes a method for distributing a swarm of robots across a region, based on shaping the outside edge of the region with one set of nodes and filling out the inside with another. Very similar to what I've been doing, though it focuses on the outer edge while leaving the inside uniform. Should be compatable with what I've been doing.

Authors: Fumin Zhang and Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Title: Generating contour plots using multiple sensor platforms
Journal: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~naomi/publications/2005/ZhangLeonardSIS05.pdf
Notes: Describes an algorithm for moving a group of robots around the contour of a region. Oldish, but still might be useful as a reference.

Authors: Laura Barnes, MaryAnne Fields and Kimon Valavanis
Title: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Swarm Formation Control Using Potential Fields
Journal: Control & Automation, 2007. MED '07. Mediterranean Conference on
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4433724
Notes: Found via seperate search. Describes controlling the motion of a swarm around a target using potential fields. Bases motion on distance from the center like mine, though in a different manner.

Authors: Leonard, N.E.; Paley, D.A.; Lekien, F.; Sepulchre, R.; Fratantoni, D.M.; Davis, R.E.
Title: Collective Motion, Sensor Networks, and Ocean Sampling
Journal: Proceedings of the IEEE , vol.95, no.1, pp.48-74, Jan. 2007 doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.887295
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4118466
Notes: Very high number of times cited, so probably important to note. Very detailed, but uses a different method than what I'm using, goes for cylindrical motion.