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Birds in a flock move in a correlated way, resulting in large polarization of velocities. A good understanding of this collective behavior exists for linear motion of the flock. Yet observing actual birds, the center of mass of the group…

We present a stochastic version of the Cucker-Smale flocking dynamics based on a markovian $N$-particle system of pair interactions with unbounded and, in general, non-Lipschitz continuous interaction potential. We establish the infinite…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Martin Friesen , Oleksandr Kutoviy

We present a new stochastic particle system on networks which describes the flocking behavior and pattern formation. More precisely, we consider Cucker-Smale particles with decentralized formation control and multiplicative noises on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Young-Pil Choi , Doeun Oh , Oliver Tse

Coarse-grained descriptions of collective motion of flocking systems are often derived for the macroscopic or the thermodynamic limit. However, many real flocks are small sized (10 to 100 individuals), called the mesoscopic scales, where…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-25 Arshed Nabeel , Vivek Jadhav , Danny Raj M , Clément Sire , Guy Theraulaz , Ramón Escobedo , Srikanth K. Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

In this paper, we quantify the asymptotic limit of collective behavior kinetic equations arising in mathematical biology modeled by Vlasov-type equations with nonlocal interaction forces and alignment. More precisely, we investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 José A. Carrillo , Young-Pil Choi , Jinwook Jung

Robots sometimes have to work together with a mixture of partially-aligned or conflicting goals. Flocking - coordinated motion through cohesion, alignment, and separation - traditionally assumes uniform desired inter-agent distances. Many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Peter Travis Jardine , Sidney Givigi

Collective motion is an intriguing phenomenon, especially considering that it arises from a set of simple rules governing local interactions between individuals. In theoretical models, these rules are normally \emph{assumed} to take a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-24 Katja Ried , Thomas Müller , Hans J. Briegel

We consider a self-propelled particle system which has been used to describe certain types of collective motion of animals, such as fish schools and bird flocks. Interactions between particles are specified by means of a pairwise potential,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-05 J. A. Carrillo , S. Martin , V. Panferov

We establish sufficient conditions for the quick relaxation to kinetic equilibrium in the classic Vicsek-Cucker-Smale model of bird flocking. The convergence time is polynomial in the number of birds as long as the number of flocks remains…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Bernard Chazelle , Kritkorn Karntikoon

We investigate the hydrodynamic limit problem for a kinetic flocking model. We develop a GCI-based Hilbert expansion method, and establish rigorously the asymptotic regime from the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with a confining potential in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Teng-Fei Zhang

We introduce a Vicsek-like flocking model with a minimal form of time-delayed orientational interactions, in which the delays occur on a time scale that is well-separated from other time scales in the model. We achieve this by implementing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-19 Charles R. Packard , Daniel M. Sussman

The cohesive collective motion (flocking, swarming) of autonomous agents is ubiquitously observed and exploited in both natural and man-made settings, thus, minimal models for its description are essential. In a model with continuous space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-12 Illes J. Farkas , Jeromos Kun , Yi Jin , Gaoqi He , Mingliang Xu

Background: Recent research in animal behaviour has contributed to determine how alignment, turning responses, and changes of speed mediate flocking and schooling interactions in different animal species. Here, we address specifically the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-05 Andrea Perna , Guillaume Gregoire , Richard P. Mann

We introduce a new ferromagnetic model capable of reproducing one of the most intriguing properties of collective behaviour in starling flocks, namely the fact that strong collective order of the system coexists with scale-free correlations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-18 Andrea Cavagna , Antonio Culla , Luca Di Carlo , Irene Giardina , Tomas S. Grigera

We study the effects of animal social networks with a weighted pattern of interactions on the flocking transition exhibited by models of self-organized collective motion. Considering a model representing dynamics on a one-dimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-19 Jaume Ojer , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

We study the emergent dynamics of the relativistic kinetic Cucker-Smale (RKCS) model without assuming compactness in spatial and velocity support. In this setting, the lower bound of the kernel function in the nonlocal velocity alignment…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang

We prove the existence of weak solutions to kinetic flocking model with cut-off interaction function by using Schauder fixed pointed theorem and velocity averaging lemma. Under the natural assumption that the velocity support of the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Chunyin Jin

We introduce a kinetic framework for modeling the time evolution of the statistical distributions of the population densities in the three compartments of susceptible, infectious, and recovered individuals, under epidemic spreading driven…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Giorgio Martalò , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

The Motsch-Tadmor (MT) model is a variant of the Cucker-Smale model with a normalized communication weight function. The normalization poses technical challenges in analyzing the collective behavior due to the absence of conservation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Seung-Yeal Ha , Franca Hoffmann , Dohyeon Kim , Wook Yoon

We study the Euler Alignment system of collective behavior, equipped with `topological' interaction protocols, which were introduced to the mathematical literature by Shvydkoy and Tadmor. Interactions subject to these protocols may depend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Trevor M. Leslie , Jan Peszek