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In this paper, we present a two-species Vicsek model, that describes alignment interactions of self-propelled particles which can either move or not. The model consists in two populations with distinct Vicsek dynamics that interact only via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Laurent Navoret

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

Many biological systems form colonies at high density. Passive granular systems will be jammed at such densities, yet for the survival of biological systems it is crucial that they are dynamic. We construct a phase diagram for a system of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel R. McCusker , Ruben van Drongelen , Timon Idema

Animals having a trend to align their velocities to an average of their neighbors' may flock as illustrated by the Vicsek model and its variants. If, in addition, they feel a systematic contrarian trend, the result may be a time periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-06 L L Bonilla , C. Trenado

We study a system of self-propelled agents in which each agent has a part of omnidirectional or panoramic view of its sensor disc, the field of vision of the agent in this case is only a sector of a disc bounded by two radii and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-20 Bao-Mei Tian , Han-Xin Yang , Wei Li , Wen-Xu Wang , Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

A one-dimensional rule-based model for flocking, that combines velocity alignment and long-range centering interactions, is presented and studied. The induced cohesion in the collective motion of the self-propelled agents leads to a unique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-19 V. Dossetti

We consider the problem of controlling the group behavior of a large number of dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with each other. These systems are assumed to have identical dynamics (e.g., birds flock, robot swarm) and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Yongxin Chen

Active agents with time-delayed interactions arise naturally in various real-world systems, such as biological systems, transportation networks and robotic swarms. Such systems are typically modeled as Delay Differential Equations (DDEs)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yu Wang , Andreas Amann , Jinde Cao , Jürgen Kurths , Serhiy Yanchuk

We show that sensorial delay alters the collective motion of self-propelling agents with aligning interactions: In a two-dimensional Vicsek model, short delays enhance the emergence of clusters and swarms, while long or negative delays…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Rafal Piwowarczyk , Martin Selin , Thomas Ihle , Giovanni Volpe

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

In this paper, we deal with a Cucker-Smale model with time-dependent time delay and communication failures. Namely, we investigate the situation in which the agents involved in a flocking process can possibly suspend the exchange of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Elisa Continelli

Pairwise interactions between individuals are taken as fundamental drivers of collective behavior responsible for group cohesion and decision-making. While an individual directly influences only a few neighbors, over time indirect…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-04-12 Sulimon Sattari , Udoy S. Basak , Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield , Tamiki Komatsuzaki

We study a minimal cognitive flocking model, which assumes that the moving entities navigate using exclusively the available instantaneous visual information. The model consists of active particles, with no memory, that interact by a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Lucas Barberis , Fernando Peruani

We consider interacting particle dynamics with Vicsek type interactions, and their macroscopic PDE limit, in the non-mean-field regime; that is, we consider the case in which each particle/agent in the system interacts only with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-15 P. Buttà , B. Goddard , T. M. Hodgson , M. Ottobre , K. J. Painter

We consider communication in a fully cooperative multi-agent system, where the agents have partial observation of the environment and must act jointly to maximize the overall reward. We have a discrete-time queueing network where agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jiekai Jia , Anam Tahir , Heinz Koeppl

A variant of the well known Vicsek model of the collective motion of a group of agents has been studied where the range of interactions are spatially quenched and non-overlapping. To define such interactions, the underlying two dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Biplab Bhattacherjee , S. S. Manna

Via computer simulations we study kinetics of pattern formation in a two-dimensional active matter system. Self-propulsion in our model is incorporated via the Vicsek-like activity, i.e., particles have the tendency of aligning their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Saikat Chakraborty , Subir K. Das

Flocking is a prime example of how robust collective behavior can emerge from simple interaction rules. The flocking transition has been studied extensively since the inception of the original Vicsek model. Here, we introduce a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-18 Eloise Lardet , Raphaël Voituriez , Silvia Grigolon , Thibault Bertrand

The present work investigates the internal flow structure of two condensing droplets of aqueous solution during interaction. The velocity of fluid inside the droplets was investigated by confocal micro-PIV technique. Condensation on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-27 Tapan Kumar Pradhan , Pradipta Kumar Panigrahi

We study an agent-based model of self-propelled particles with a velocity-dependent alignment rule. This interaction is orientation weighted and acts along the line connecting neighboring particles. Tuning the alignment strength produces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohdan Dobosh , Alexander Yakimenko