There has been much research done on single-flock flocking Shaw (1975), Partridge (1984), Partridge (1982), Okubo (1986), Reynolds (1987), Vicsek et al. (1995), Toner & Tu (1998), Shimoyama et al. (1996), Mogilner & Edelstein-Keshet (1999), Helbing et al. (2000), Vicsek (2001), Parrish et al. (2002), Olfati-Saber (2006), but none done on multi-flock flocking Gazi & Fidan (2007). One might ask, ...

Flocking behaviors are used in games and computer graphics for realistic simulation of massive crowds. Simulation of massive crowds in real time is a computationally intensive task. This intensity mostly comes from the O(n 2 ) complexity of the traversal algorithm. It is because each agent in crowd has to decide for itself which neighbors fall into its environment. There are several algorithms ...

We discuss a new modeling paradigm for large dimensional aggregates of stochastic systems by Generalized Factor Analysis (GFA) models. These models describe the data as the sum of a flocking plus an uncorrelated idiosyncratic component. The flocking component describes a sort of collective orderly motion which admits a much simpler mathematical description than the whole ensemble while the idio...

Abstract. We study a stochastic Cucker-Smale flocking system in which particles interact with the environment through white noise. We provide the definition of flocking for the stochastic system, and show that when the communication rate is constant, the system exhibits a flocking behavior independent of the initial configurations. For the case of a radially symmetric communication rate with a ...

Article history: Received 11 September 2013 Accepted 15 February 2014 Available online 24 April 2014 In practice, directly control every node in a dynamical networked system with a huge number of nodes might be impossible or unnecessary; therefore, pinning control is a desirable approach. This paper surveys advances in pinning control approaches to making a dynamical networked system have a des...

—This paper proposes the use of animal flocks to naturally provide spatial clues in adventure video-games. This approach complements the so far proposed mechanisms to support navigation in virtual worlds, addressing particular conditions that the previous approaches do not cover. The proposed model is natural and peripheral. Moreover, it does not limit the player freedom, it is adequate for dyn...

We study the collective transport of robots (CTR) problem. A large number of commodity mobile robots are to be moved from one location to another by a single operator. Joysticking each one or carrying them physically is impractical. None of the robots are particularly sophisticated in their ability to plan or reason. Prior work on flocking and formation control has addressed the transport of a ...