Swarm shedding in networks of self-propelled agents.

ABSTRACT: Understanding swarm pattern formation is of great interest because it occurs naturally in many physical and biological systems, and has artificial applications in robotics. In both natural and engineered swarms, agent communication is typically local and sparse. This is because, over a limited sensing or communication range, the number of interactions an agent has is much smaller than the total possible number. A central question for self-organizing swarms interacting through sparse networks is whether or not collective motion states can emerge where all agents have coherent and stable dynamics. In this work we introduce the phenomenon of swarm shedding in which weakly-connected agents are ejected from stable milling patterns in self-propelled swarming networks with finite-range interactio

SUBMITTER: Hindes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8242078 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature