Today more and more attention is given to collective movement of dynamic nodes, called ”flocking”. The main problem is how to control the nodes to behave as a group and make them move together to destinations (and moreover complete some tasks such as sensing, transporting, etc.). Currently there are many works, which attempt to solve the flocking problem, but very few of them are suitable for r...

Flocking strategies are sets of behavior rules for the interaction of agents that allow to devise controllers with reduced complexity that generate emerging behavior. In this paper, we present an application of genetic algorithms and flocking strategies to control the Ghost Team in the game Ms. Pac-Man. In particular, we define flocking strategies for the Ghost Team and optimize them for robust...

In this paper, an event-triggered control protocol is developed to investigate flocking of Lagrangian systems, where event-triggering conditions are proposed determine when the velocities agents transmitted their neighbours. particular, controller distributed, since it only depends on available information each agent own reference frame. addition, we derive sufficient avoid Zeno behaviour. Nume...

The well-known Cucker-Smale model is a macroscopic system reflecting flocking, i.e. the alignment of velocities in a group of autonomous agents having mutual interactions. In the present paper, we consider the mean-field limit of that model, called the kinetic Cucker-Smale model, which is a transport partial differential equation involving nonlocal terms. It is known that flocking is reached as...

Flocking is the phenomenon in which self-driven individuals, using limited information and simple rules, organize into an ordered motion. This ordering occurs at the dynamic level where ordering is not possible at static equilibrium of systems. This paper explores computational and theoretical efforts undertaken to explain emergent phenomenon among autonomous mobile agents. A class of local con...

This paper presents novel approaches to (1) the problem of flocking control of a mobile sensor network to track and observe a moving target and (2) the problem of sensor splitting/merging to track and observemultiple targets in a dynamic fashion. First, to deal with complex environments when themobile sensor network has to pass through a narrow space among obstacles, we propose an adaptive floc...

The motion of a group of nonholonomic mobile agents is synchronized using local control laws. This synchronization strategy is inspired by the early flocking model proposed by Reynolds [17] and following work [22, 8]. The control laws presented ensure that all agent headings and speeds converge asymptotically to the same value and collisions between the agents are avoided. The stability of this...

The swarm intelligence is becoming a hot topic. The flocking of birds is a natural phenomenon, which is formed and organized without central or external controls for some benefits (e.g., reduction of energy consummation). However, the flocking also has some negative effects on the human, as the infectious disease H7N9 will easily be transmited from the denser flocking birds to the human. Zombie...

We present a new hydrodynamic model for the interactions between collision-free Cucker–Smale flocking particles and a viscous incompressible fluid. Our proposed model consists of two hydrodynamic models. For the Cucker–Smale flocking particles, we employ the pressureless Euler system with a non-local flocking dissipation, whereas for the fluid, we use the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations....