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A multiagent based model for a system of cooperative agents aiming at growth is proposed. This is based on a set of generalized Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra differential equations. In this study, strong cooperation is allowed among agents having…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-08 L. F. Caram , C. F. Caiafa , M. Ausloos , A. N. Proto

We present a new algorithm to simulate dynamic group behaviors for interactive multi-agent crowd simulation. Our approach is general and makes no assumption about the environment, shape, or size of the groups. We use the least effort…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Liang He , Jia Pan , Sahil Narang , Wenping Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Self-navigation in non-coordinating crowded environments is formidably challenging within multi-agent systems consisting of non-holonomic robots operating through local sensing. Our primary objective is the development of a novel, rapid,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Veejay Karthik J , Leena Vachhani

Simulation of population dynamics is a central research theme in computational biology, which contributes to understanding the interactions between predators and preys. Conventional mathematical tools of this theme, however, are incapable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jun Yamada , John Shawe-Taylor , Zafeirios Fountas

This paper addresses the problem of formation control and tracking a of desired trajectory by an Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems. It is inspired by recent results by Qingkai et al. and adopts an event-triggered control strategy to reduce…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Christophe Viel , Sylvain Bertrand , Michel Kieffer , Hélène Piet-Lahanier

Social interactions are fundamental in animal groups, including humans, and can take various forms, such as competition, cooperation, or kinship. Understanding these interactions in marine environments has been historically challenging due…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Juan Fernández-Gracia , Jorge P. Rodríguez , Lauren R. Peel , Konstantin Klemm , Mark G. Meekan , Víctor M. Eguíluz

The non-Markovian stochastic dynamics involving Levy flights and a potential in the form of a harmonic and non-linear oscillator is discussed. The subordination technique is applied and the memory effects, which are nonhomogeneous, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-21 Tomasz Srokowski

We aim to improve the performance of multi-agent flocking behavior by quantifying the structural significance of each agent. We designed a confidence score(ConfScore) to measure the spatial significance of each agent. The score will be used…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Jinfan Zhou , Jiyu Cheng , Lin Zhang , Wei Zhang

In active fluids and active solids the constituents individually generate movement by each extracting energy from their environment or from their own source. Non-reciprocal interactions among these active constituents then enable novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Brady Wu , Qinghao Mao , Bryan VanSaders , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We study the long-time hydrodynamic behavior of systems of multi-species which arise from agent-based description of alignment dynamics. The interaction between species is governed by an array of symmetric communication kernels. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jingcheng Lu , Eitan Tadmor

We focus on the problem of planning the motion of a robot in a dynamic multiagent environment such as a pedestrian scene. Enabling the robot to navigate safely and in a socially compliant fashion in such scenes requires a representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Allan Wang , Christoforos Mavrogiannis , Aaron Steinfeld

In this paper, we present an algorithm to efficiently learn socially-compliant navigation policies from observations of human trajectories. As mobile robots come to inhabit and traffic social spaces, they must account for social cues and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Bobak H. Baghi , Gregory Dudek

A multi-agent system designed to achieve distance-based shape control with flocking behavior can be seen as a mechanical system described by a Lagrangian function and subject to additional external forces. Forced variational integrators are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Leonardo Colombo , Patricio Moreno , Mengbin Ye , Hector Garcia de Marina , Ming Cao

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-23 E. Cristiani , M. Menci , A. Malagnino , G. G. Amaro

We study continuous-time consensus dynamics for multi-agent systems with undirected switching interaction graphs. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for exponential asymptotic consensus based on the classical theory of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Brian D. O. Anderson , Guodong Shi , Jochen Trumpf

Scalable multi-agent driving simulation requires behavior models that are both realistic and computationally efficient. We address this by optimizing the behavior model that controls individual traffic participants. To improve efficiency,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Fabian Konstantinidis , Moritz Sackmann , Ulrich Hofmann , Christoph Stiller

This paper considers a model with general regressors and unobservable factors. An estimator based on iterated principal components is proposed, which is shown to be not only asymptotically normal and oracle efficient, but under certain…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-04-23 Bin Peng , Liangjun Su , Joakim Westerlund , Yanrong Yang

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 investigate emergent dynamics due to non-reciprocity in the $\mathcal{O}(2)$ model. The lattice XY model, where non-reciprocity stems from vision cone like couplings, can be described by a continuum description in which non-reciprocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ylann Rouzaire , Daniel JG Pearce , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

We introduce a simple model of self-propelled agents connected by linear springs, with no explicit alignment rules. Below a critical noise level, the agents self-organize into a collectively translating or rotating group. We derive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-15 Eliseo Ferrante , Ali Emre Turgut , Marco Dorigo , Cristián Huepe