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The motion of pedestrian crowds (e.g. for simulation of an evacuation situation) can be modeled as a multi-body system of self driven particles with repulsive interaction. We use a few simple situations to determine the simplest allowed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-04 B. Steffen

This paper presents a novel strategy for a multi-agent pursuit-evasion game involving multiple faster pursuers with heterogenous speeds and a single slower evader. We define a geometric region, the evader's safe-reachable set, as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Kamal Mammadov , Damith C. Ranasinghe

We analyze the dynamics of room evacuation for mixed populations that include both competitive and cooperative individuals through numerical simulations using the social force model. Cooperative agents represent well-trained individuals who…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-17 Amir Zablotsky , Marcelo N Kuperman , Sebastián Bouzat

This research explores the dynamics of emergency evacuations in the presence of social groups. The investigation was carried out in the context of the basic Social Force Model (SFM). We included attractive feelings between people belonging…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-20 Eric A. Rozan , Guillermo A. Frank , Fernando E. Cornes , Ignacio M. Sticco , Claudio O. Dorso

Pursuit-evasion is a multi-agent sequential decision problem wherein a group of agents known as pursuers coordinate their traversal of a spatial domain to locate an agent trying to evade them. Pursuit evasion problems arise in a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Zhen Li , Nicholas J. Meyer , Eric B. Laber , Robert Brigantic

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

This paper introduces a novel reachability problem for the scenario involving two agents, where one agent follows another agent using a feedback strategy. The geometry of the reachable set for an agent, termed \emph{dependent reachable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Venkata Ramana Makkapati , Tulasi Ram Vechalapu , Vinodhini Comandur , Seth Hutchinson

We propose a method to procedurally generate a familiar yet complex human artifact: the city. We are not trying to reproduce existing cities, but to generate artificial cities that are convincing and plausible by capturing developmental…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Thomas Lechner , Ben Watson , Uri Wilensky , Martin Felsen

We investigate the emergence of cohesive flocking in open, boundless space using a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework. Agents integrate positional and orientational information from their closest topological neighbours and learn…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Martino Brambati , Antonio Celani , Marco Gherardi , Francesco Ginelli

Group behavior has received much attention as a test case of self-organization. There has been much written in recent years to investigate interactions within groups of agents. These agents can be animals moving in an interactive way, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-14 Max D. Steel

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

Theoretical models of populations and swarms typically start with the assumption that the motion of agents is governed by the local stimuli. However, an intelligent agent, with some understanding of the laws that govern its habitat, can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Nathaniel Rupprecht , Dervis Can Vural

A multi-agent system comprises numerous agents that autonomously make decisions to collectively accomplish tasks, drawing significant attention for their wide-ranging applications. Within this context, formation control emerges as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Anna Fujioka , Masaki Ogura , Naoki Wakamiya

This paper presents an approach to detect and track groups of people in video-surveillance applications, and to automatically recognize their behavior. This method keeps track of individuals moving together by maintaining a spacial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Sofia Zaidenberg , Bernard Boulay , François Bremond

In this paper we are concerned with multiscale modeling, control, and simulation of self-organizing agents leaving an unknown area under limited visibility, with special emphasis on crowds. We first introduce a new microscopic model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Giacomo Albi , Mattia Bongini , Emiliano Cristiani , Dante Kalise

Collective motion in animal groups provide examples of emergent, decentralised coordination. Here, we examine a bottom-up model of collective behavior based on Future State Maximisation (FSM). In this model agents seek to maximise the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-22 Sam Turley , Matthew Turner

Introducing environmental feedback into evolutionary game theory has led to the development of eco-evolutionary games, which have gained popularity due to their ability to capture the intricate interplay between the environment and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Changyan Di , Qingguo Zhou , Jun Shen , Jinqiang Wang , Rui Zhou , Tianyi Wang

Motion camouflage is a stealth strategy observed in nature. We formulate the problem as a feedback system for particles moving at constant speed, and define what it means for the system to be in a state of motion camouflage. (Here we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-11 E. W. Justh , P. S. Krishnaprasad

We investigate dynamical properties of traffic flow using the stochastic car-following model with modified optimal velocity on circular road. The safety distance following the two-second rule and autonomous vehicles, acting as agents,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-18 Manit Klawtanong , Surachate Limkumnerd

Sets of moving entities can form groups which travel together for significant amounts of time. Tracking such groups is an important analysis task in a variety of areas, such as wildlife ecology, urban transport, or sports analysis.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Max van Mulken , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek