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Controlling swarms towards flocks and mills

Optimization and Control 2021-11-18 v3

Abstract

Self-organization and control around flocks and mills is studied for second-order swarming systems involving self-propulsion and potential terms. It is shown that through the action of constrained control, is it possible to control any initial configuration to a flock or a mill. The proof builds on an appropriate combination of several arguments: LaSalle invariance principle and Lyapunov-like decreasing functionals, control linearization techniques, and quasi-static deformations. A stability analysis of the second-order system guides the design of feedback laws for the stabilization to flock and mills, which are also assessed computationally.

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@article{arxiv.2103.07304,
  title  = {Controlling swarms towards flocks and mills},
  author = {José Carrillo and Dante Kalise and Francesco Rossi and Emmanuel Trélat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07304},
  year   = {2021}
}
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