Collective motions of heterogeneous swarms
Abstract
The emerging collective motions of swarms of interacting agents are a subject of great interest in application areas ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we conduct a careful analysis of the collective dynamics of a swarm of self-propelled heterogeneous, delay-coupled agents. We show the emergence of collective motion patterns and segregation of populations of agents with different dynamic properties; both of these behaviors (pattern formation and segregation) emerge naturally in our model, which is based on self-propulsion and attractive pairwise interactions between agents. We derive the bifurcation structure for emergence of different swarming behaviors in the mean field as a function of physical parameters and verify these results through simulation.
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@article{arxiv.1409.1042,
title = {Collective motions of heterogeneous swarms},
author = {Klementyna Szwaykowska and Luis Mier-y-Teran Romero and Ira B. Schwartz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1042},
year = {2014}
}
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8 pages, 6 figures