Examination of an averaging method for estimating repulsion and attraction interactions in moving groups.

ABSTRACT: Groups of animals coordinate remarkable, coherent, movement patterns during periods of collective motion. Such movement patterns include the toroidal mills seen in fish shoals, highly aligned parallel motion like that of flocks of migrating birds, and the swarming of insects. Since the 1970's a wide range of collective motion models have been studied that prescribe rules of interaction between individuals, and that are capable of generating emergent patterns that are visually similar to those seen in real animal group. This does not necessarily mean that real animals apply exactly the same interactions as those prescribed in models. In more recent work, researchers have sought to infer the rules of interaction of real animals directly from tracking data, by using a number of techniques, in

SUBMITTER: Mudaliar RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725364 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature