WAVE: Wave Agents in a Virtual Environment - A Proof of Concept Applied to Longitudinal Distance Regulation in Platoon Control

Since a decade multi-agents became a widespread solution to tackle different kinds of issues in various application fields. Among the two main trends in multi-agent approaches (cognitive vs. reactive), the reactive one is particularly interesting for applications that require both fast response time, adaptability and robustness. Reactive Multi-agent Systems rely on simple interaction schemes between entities that can be inspired whether by Biology or Physics. The goal of this paper is to explore the possibility of using interference fringes and waves properties from a multi-agent standpoint so as to tackle a real problem, longitudinal platoon regulation, already explored by different strategies including particle agents approaches or standard PID controller.