This paper presents a deployment strategy via self organizing flocking coalitions for mobile sensor network coverage. The concepts of our approach are inspired by the flocking phenomenon which locally controls a group of mobile agents performed as follows: (i) global alignment of their velocity vectors, (ii) convergence of their velocities to a common one, and (iii) collision avoidance. Adding ...

In this dissertation, we study self-organized flocking in a swarm of behaviorally heterogeneous mobile robots: aligning and non-aligning robots. Aligning robots are capable of agreeing on a common heading direction with other neighboring aligning robots. Conversely, non-aligning robots lack this capability. Studying this type of heterogeneity in self-organized flocking is important as it can su...

This paper presents in-formation flocking, a novel information visualization technique that extends the original information flocking concept with dynamic and data-driven visual formation behavior generation. This approach extends the emergent swarming properties of a decentralized multiagent system in order to represent complex time-varying datasets through visually-recognizable formations and...

Compared with the space fixed feature of traditional wireless sensor network (WSN), mobile WSN has better robustness and adaptability in unknown environment, so that it is always applied in the research of target tracking. In order to reach the target, the nodes group should find a self-adaptive method to avoid the obstacles together in their moving directions. Previous methods, which were base...

We study kinetic representations of flocking models. They arise from agent-based models for self-organized dynamics, such as Cucker-Smale [5] and Motsch-Tadmor [11] models. We prove the flocking behavior for the kinetic descriptions of flocking systems, which indicates a concentration in velocity variable in infinite time. We propose a discontinuous Galerkin method to treat the asymptotic δ -si...

Abstract Flocking is a social animals’ common behaviour observed in nature. It has great potential for real-world applications such as exploration agri-robotics using low-cost robotic solutions. In this paper, an extended model of self-organised flocking mechanism heterogeneous swarm system proposed. The proposed systems combination collective motion with obstacle avoidance functions, which ens...

Abstract. We present a simple proof on the formation of flocking to the Cucker-Smale system based on the explicit construction of a Lyapunov functional. Our results also provide a unified condition on the initial states in which the exponential convergence to flocking state will occur. For large particle systems, we give a rigorous justification for the mean-field limit from the many particle C...