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Cooperative collision avoidance between robots, or `agents,' in swarm operations remains an open challenge. Assuming a decentralized architecture, each agent is responsible for making its own decisions and choosing its control actions. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Georg Schildbach

In this chapter, we present the Cucker-Smale type flocking models, and discuss their mathematical structures and flocking theorems in terms of coupling strength, interaction topologies and initial data. In 2007, two mathematicians Felipe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Young-Pil Choi , Seung-Yeal Ha , Zhuchun Li

We study the emergent behaviors of the weak solutions to the kinetic Cucker-Smale (in short, KCS) model in a non-compact spatial-velocity support setting. Unlike the compact support situation, non-compact support of a weak solution can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Seung-Yeal Ha , Xinyu Wang

We consider the Czir\'ok model for collective motion of locusts along a one-dimensional torus. In the model, each agent's velocity locally interacts with other agents' velocities in the system, and there is also exogenous randomness to each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou , Tzu-Wei Yang

Formation control with the flocking approach is an efficient method that can reach the formation without determining the agent's position. This paper focuses on reaching the circular formation around the leader or target with a specific…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Seyed Sajadi , Hajar Atrianfar

This paper presents an elementary proof of quantitative uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for the Cucker--Smale model under sufficiently strong interaction. The idea is to combine existing finite-time propagation of chaos estimates with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Urbain Vaes

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

Pushes, falls, stampedes, and crushes are safety hazards that emerge from the collective motion of crowds, but might be avoided by better design and guidance. While pedestrian dynamics are now getting better understood on the whole, complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-18 Chuan-Zhi Thomas Xie , Tie-Qiao Tang , Alexandre Nicolas

In this article, we present a distributed source-seeking and flocking control method for networked multi-agent systems with non-holonomic constraints. Based solely on identical on-board sensor systems, which measure the source local field,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Tinghua Li , Bayu Jayawardhana

We investigate the hydrodynamic limit problem for a kinetic flocking model. We develop a GCI-based Hilbert expansion method, and establish rigorously the asymptotic regime from the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with a confining potential in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Teng-Fei Zhang

This work explores a collaborative method for ensuring safety in multi-agent formation control problems. We formulate a control barrier function (CBF) based safety filter control law for a generic distributed formation controller and extend…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Brooks A. Butler , Chi Ho Leung , Philip E. Paré

In this paper we study a novel Fokker-Planck-type model that is designed to mimic manufacturing processes through the dynamics characterizing a large set of agents. In particular, we describe a many-agent system interacting with a target…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-12-08 Ferdinando Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

Collective motion and self-organization of interacting particles, such as flocking and swarming, can be viewed as nonequilibrium analogues of collective dynamics in gases. Motivated by the analogy between gas mixtures and Cucker--Smale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ziming Bian , Seung-Yeal Ha , Tommaso Ruggeri , Qinghua Xiao

Classical flocking models demonstrate how local interactions generate emergent order, but real-world multi-agent deployments are bound by severe constraints: limited actuator availability, heterogeneous communication latencies, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Jiguang Yu

We study emergent dynamics of the discrete Cucker-Smale (in short, DCS) model with randomly switching network topologies. For this, we provide a sufficient framework leading to the stochastic flocking with probability one. Our sufficient…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Jiu-Gang Dong , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jinwook Jung , Doheon Kim

We study the emergent flocking behavior in a group of Cucker-Smale flocking agents under rooted leadership with alternating leaders. It is well known that the network topology regulates the emergent behaviors of flocks. All existing results…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Zhuchun Li , Seung-Yeal Ha

As robotic swarm systems emerge, it is increasingly important to provide strong guarantees on energy consumption and safety to maximize system performance. One approach to achieve these guarantees is through constraint-driven control, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Logan E. Beaver , Michael Dorothy , Christopher Kroninger , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Swarms of autonomous agents are useful in many applications due to their ability to accomplish tasks in a decentralized manner, making them more robust to failures. Due to the difficulty in running experiments with large numbers of hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Chris Taylor , Cameron Nowzari

From a mathematical point of view self-organization can be described as patterns to which certain dynamical systems modeling social dynamics tend spontaneously to be attracted. In this paper we explore situations beyond self-organization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Marco Caponigro , Massimo Fornasier , Benedetto Piccoli , Emmanuel Trélat

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