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This article presents the world's first rapid drone flocking control using natural language through generative AI. The described approach enables the intuitive orchestration of a flock of any size to achieve the desired geometry. The key…

We present a general framework for modeling a wide selection of flocking scenarios under free boundary conditions. Several variants have been considered - including examples for the widely observed behavior of hierarchically interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Yongnan Jia , Tamas Vicsek

We derive a new method to infer from data the out-of-equilibrium alignment dynamics of collectively moving animal groups, by considering the maximum entropy distribution consistent with temporal and spatial correlations of flight direction.…

UAV collective motion has become a hot research topic in recent years. The realization of UAV collective motion, however, relied heavily on centralized control method and suffered from instability. Inspired by bird flocking theory, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiyuan Liu , Li Qiu

Prosocial behaviours have been extensively studied across multiple disciplines. Cooperation, requiring a personal cost for collective benefits, is widespread in nature and human society, having been explained through mechanisms such as kin…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 M. H. Duong , C. M. Durbac , T. A. Han

Animal groups collaborate with one another throughout their lives to better comprehend their surroundings. Here, we try to model, using continuous random walks, how the entire process of birth, reproduction, and death might impact the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-11-07 Sanchayan Bhowal , Ramkrishna Jyoti Samanta , Arnob Ray , Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Chittaranjan Hens

We consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. We introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Andre Nathan , Valmir C. Barbosa

Interactions among neighboring birds in a flock cause an alignment of their flight directions. We show that the minimally structured (maximum entropy) model consistent with these local correlations correctly predicts the propagation of…

We study the multi-scale description of large-time collective behavior of agents driven by alignment. The resulting multi-flock dynamics arises naturally with realistic initial configurations consisting of multiple spatial scaling, which in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Roman Shvydkoy , Eitan Tadmor

The minimum-effort coordination game, having potentially important implications in both evolutionary biology and sociology, draws recently more attention for the fact that human behavior in this social dilemma is often inconsistent with the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-22 Kun Li , Rui Cong , Long Wang

Classification algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) are nowadays applied in high-stakes decisions in finance, healthcare, criminal justice, or education. Individuals can strategically adapt to the information gathered about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Marta C. Couto , Flavia Barsotti , Fernando P. Santos

In this paper we theoretically investigate underlying assumptions that have been used for designing adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithms in the past years. We relate these assumptions to the movement patterns of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi

We study the (hydro-)dynamics of multi-species driven by alignment. What distinguishes the different species is the protocol of their interaction with the rest of the crowd: the collective motion is described by different communication…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Siming He , Eitan Tadmor

Thermal soaring enables birds to perform cost-efficient flights during foraging or migration trips. Yet, although all soaring birds exploit vertical winds effectively, this group contains species that vary strongly in their morphologies.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-09 Göksel Keskin , Olivier Duriez , Pedro Lacerda , Andrea Flack , Máté Nagy

Interest in multimodal function optimization is expanding rapidly since real world optimization problems often demand locating multiple optima within a search space. This article presents a new multimodal optimization algorithm named as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Erik Cuevas , Mauricio Gonzalez

Decision-making individuals often imitate their highest-earning fellows rather than optimize their own utilities, due to bounded rationality and incomplete information. Perpetual fluctuations between decisions have been reported as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Yiheng Fu , Pouria Ramazi

Most of us must have been fascinated by the eye catching displays of collectively moving animals. Schools of fish can move in a rather orderly fashion and then change direction amazingly abruptly. There are a huge number of further examples…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-01-13 K. Bhattacharya , Tamás Vicsek

The study of robotic flocking has received significant attention in the past twenty years. In this article, we present a constraint-driven control algorithm that minimizes the energy consumption of individual agents and yields an emergent V…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Logan E. Beaver , Christopher Kroninger , Michael Dorothy , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Production of energy (metabolism) and its distribution is vital for living organisms, both at individual level - between different functions of an organism, as well as between species of communities at different organizational levels,…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-02 Yuri K Shestopaloff

Evolutionary game theory has proved to be a powerful tool to probe the self-organisation of collective behaviour by considering frequency-dependent fitness in evolutionary processes. It has shown that the stability of a strategy depends not…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Diogo L. Pires , Mark Broom