A Collective Movement

Spatial moment dynamics for collective cell movement

4 The ability of cells to undergo collective movement plays a fundamental role in tissue repair, 5 development and cancer. Interactions occurring at the level of individual cells may lead to the 6 development of spatial structure which will affect the dynamics of migrating cells at a population 7 level. Models that try to predict population-level behaviour often take a mean-field approach, whic...

Collective-movement teams for cooperative problem solving

Self-organizing particle systems (“swarms”) consist of numerous autonomous, reflexive agents (“particles”) whose collective movements through space are determined primarily by local influences. Such systems have been traditionally used to simulate groups of animals and other biological phenomena. The simple nature of these systems limits their applications in other areas. We believe that by ext...

On following behaviour as a mechanism for collective movement.

During collective movement, animals display a wide variety of mechanisms to maintain cohesion. In some species, individuals rely mainly on following their direct predecessor, thereby forming spectacular processions of individuals in single file. Despite being the simplest case of following behaviour, it is largely absent from the theoretical literature on collective migrations. The objective of...

A Social Movement Perspective of Stakeholder Collective Action and Influence

A Survey of Collective Movement of Mobile Robots

Collective movement of mobile robots is the problem of how to control a group of robots making them move as a group, in a cohesive way, towards a common direction. Collective movement serves not only to move a group of robots from one point to another, but to perform more complex tasks such as using the group of robots as a moving sensor array, collective mapping and searching tasks...