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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

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

We introduce and discuss certain kinetic models of (continuous) opinion formation involving both exchange of opinion between individual agents and diffusion of information. We show conditions which ensure that the kinetic model reaches non…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Toscani

We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during the collective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this model the particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they move with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Czirok , M. Vicsek , T. Vicsek

We consider a stochastic, continuous state and time opinion model where each agent's opinion locally interacts with other agents' opinions in the system, and there is also exogenous randomness. The interaction tends to create clusters of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou , Tzu-Wei Yang

We study a system of self-propelled particles whose alignment with neighbors depends on the degree of local alignment. We show that such a local conformity interaction naturally yields a Vicsek-type model with pairwise and three-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Keisuke Taga

Coordinated collective motion in bird flocks and fish schools inspires algorithms for cohesive swarm robotics. This paper presents a position-based flocking model that achieves persistent velocity alignment without velocity sensing. By…

Two hallmarks of non-equilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agents motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops leading to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 David Martin , Daniel Seara , Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

We introduce a class of one-dimensional linear kinetic equations of Boltzmann and Fokker--Planck type, describing the dynamics of individuals of a multi-agent society questing for high status in the social hierarchy. At the Boltzmann level,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-05 Giacomo Dimarco , Giuseppe Toscani

The goal of this investigation was to derive strictly new properties of chaotic systems and their mutual relations. The generalized Fokker-Planck equation with a non stationary diffusion has been derived and used for chaos analysis. An…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-29 Sergey A. Kamenshchikov

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

We present a simple model of alignment of a large number of rigid bodies (modeled by rotation matrices) subject to internal rotational noise. The numerical simulations exhibit a phenomenon of first order phase transition with respect the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Amic Frouvelle

In recent years, many efforts have been addressed on collision avoidance of collectively moving agents. In this paper, we propose a modified version of the Vicsek model with adaptive speed, which can guarantee the absence of collisions.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-04-03 Liqian Peng , Yang Zhao , Baomei Tian , Jue Zhang , Bing-Hong Wang , Hai-Tao Zhang , Tao Zhou

We introduce a model of long-range interacting particles evolving under a stochastic Monte Carlo dynamics, in which possible increase or decrease in the values of the dynamical variables is accepted with preassigned probabilities. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

The aim of the present paper is to elucidate the transition from collective to random behavior exhibited by various mathematical models of bird flocking. In particular, we compare Vicsek's model [Viscek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 --…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Christodoulidi , K. van der Weele , Ch. G. Antonopoulos , T. Bountis

In the current paper Fokker Planck model of random walks has been extended to non conservative cases characterized by explicit dependence of diffusion and energy on time. A given generalization allows describing of such non equilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-30 Sergey Kamenshchikov

We study a variant of the Cucker-Smale model where information between agents propagates with a finite speed $\mathfrak{c}>0$. This leads to a system of functional differential equations with state-dependent delay. We prove that, if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Jan Haskovec

We study the role of noise on the nature of the transition to collective motion in dry active matter. Starting from field theories that predict a continuous transition at the deterministic level, we show that fluctuations induce a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-12 David Martin , Hugues Chaté , Cesare Nardini , Alexandre Solon , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

We have developed an experimental setup of very simple self-propelled robots to observe collective motion emerging as a result of inelastic collisions only. A circular pool and commercial RC boats were the basis of our first setup, where we…

We consider the overdamped dynamics of a paradigmatic long-range system of particles residing on the sites of a one-dimensional lattice, in the presence of thermal noise. The internal degree of freedom of each particle is a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo