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The study of collective behavior in multi-agent systems has attracted the attention of many researchers due to its wide range of applications. Among them, the Cucker-Smale model was developed to study the phenomenon of flocking, and various…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Jong-Ho Kim , Young Ju Lee , Jea-Hyun Park

Animal swarms displaying a variety of typical flocking patterns would not exist without underlying safe, optimal and stable dynamics of the individuals. The emergence of these universal patterns can be efficiently reconstructed with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Csaba Virágh , Gábor Vásárhelyi , Norbert Tarcai , Tamás Szörényi , Gergő Somorjai , Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang

Collective behaviors such as swarming and flocking emerge from simple, decentralized interactions in biological systems. Existing models, such as Vicsek and Cucker-Smale, lack collision avoidance, whereas the Olfati-Saber model imposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hossein B. Jond

Computational models of collective behavior in birds has allowed us to infer interaction rules directly from experimental data. Using a generic form of these rules we explore the collective behavior and emergent dynamics of a simulated…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-07-24 Michael Small , Xiaoke Xu

We study finite-time flocking for an infinite set of Cucker-Smale particles with sublinear velocity coupling under fixed and switching sender networks. For this, we use a component-wise diameter framework and exploit sub-linear dissipation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang , Fanqin Zeng

We derive an explicit form for the Cucker-Smale (CS) model on the special orthogonal group $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ by identifying closed form expressions for geometric quantities such as covariant derivative and parallel transport in exponential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Razvan C. Fetecau , Seung-Yeal Ha , Hansol Park

We introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

We present some recent development in modeling concurrent emergence of collective behaviors, namely, the emergence of clustering, flocking and synchronization at the same time. We derive two new models, namely Swarmalator-Vicsek and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Trenton Gerew , Ming Zhong

The hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic Cucker-Smale model is investigated. In addition to the free-transport of individuals and the Cucker-Smale alignment operator, the model under consideration includes a strong local alignment term. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-01 Trygve Karper , Antoine Mellet , Konstantina Trivisa

The study of flocking in biological systems has identified conditions for self-organized collective behavior, inspiring the development of decentralized strategies to coordinate the dynamics of swarms of drones and other autonomous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-05 Arthur N. Montanari , Ana Elisa D. Barioni , Chao Duan , Adilson E. Motter

The existing state of the art for singular models of flocking is overviewed, starting from microscopic model of Cucker and Smale with singular communication weight, through its mesoscopic mean-filed limit, up to the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Piotr Minakowski , Piotr B. Mucha , Jan Peszek , Ewelina Zatorska

For the discrete Cucker-Smale's flocking model with a singular communication weight $\psi(s) = s^{-\alpha}$, with $0<\alpha<1/2$ , we prove that the velocity component of certain type of weak solutions is absolutly continuous. This result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Jan Peszek

We analyze the Cucker-Smale model under hierarchical leadership in presence of a time delay. By using a Lyapunov functional approach and some induction arguments we will prove convergence to consensus for every positive delay $\tau$. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Cristina Pignotti , Irene Reche Vallejo

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

Natural flocks (aligned) and swarms (non-aligned) both exhibit features of near-criticality, challenging their treatment as two ends of the same phase transition. We present a model for the aggregation of active individuals, in which their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-26 Joao Lizárraga , Marcus de Aguiar

The flocking motion control is concerned with managing the possible conflicts between local and team objectives of multi-agent systems. The overall control process guides the agents while monitoring the flock-cohesiveness and localization.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Shuzheng Qu , Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello

We establish the global existence of weak solutions to a class of kinetic flocking equations. The models under consideration include the kinetic Cucker-Smale equation with possibly non-symmetric flocking potential, the Cucker-Smale equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Trygve Karper , Antoine Mellet , Konstantina Trivisa

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

Flocks of birds, schools of fish, insects swarms are examples of coordinated motion of a group that arises spontaneously from the action of many individuals. Here, we study flocking behavior from the viewpoint of multi-agent reinforcement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-08 Mihir Durve , Fernando Peruani , Antonio Celani