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Medeiros ES, Feudel U. Local control for the collective dynamics of self-propelled particles. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:014312. [PMID: 38366537 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.014312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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Utilizing a paradigmatic model for the motion of interacting self-propelled particles, we demonstrate that local accelerations at the level of individual particles can drive transitions between different collective dynamics, leading to a control process. We find that the ability to trigger such transitions is hierarchically distributed among the particles and can form distinctive spatial patterns within the collective. Chaotic dynamics occur during the transitions, which can be attributed to fractal basin boundaries mediating the control process. The particle hierarchies described in this paper offer decentralized capabilities for controlling artificial swarms.
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- Everton S Medeiros
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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We report a possible solution for the long-standing problem of the biological function of swirling motion, when a group of animals orbits a common center of the group. We exploit the hypothesis that learning processes in the nervous system of animals may be modelled by reinforcement learning (RL) and apply it to explain the phenomenon. In contrast to hardly justified models of physical interactions between animals, we propose a small set of rules to be learned by the agents, which results in swirling. The rules are extremely simple and thus applicable to animals with very limited level of information processing. We demonstrate that swirling may be understood in terms of the escort behavior, when an individual animal tries to reside within a certain distance from the swarm center. Moreover, we reveal the biological function of swirling motion: a trained for swirling swarm is by orders of magnitude more resistant to external perturbations, than an untrained one. Using our approach we analyze another class of a coordinated motion of animals-a group locomotion in viscous fluid. On a model example we demonstrate that RL provides an optimal disposition of coherently moving animals with a minimal dissipation of energy.
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Teixeira EF, Fernandes HCM, Brunnet LG. A single active ring model with velocity self-alignment. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:5991-6000. [PMID: 34048522 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00080b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Cellular tissue behavior is a multiscale problem. At the cell level, out of equilibrium, biochemical reactions drive physical cell-cell interactions in a typical active matter process. Cell modeling computer simulations are a robust tool to explore countless possibilities and test hypotheses. Here, we introduce a two-dimensional, extended active matter model for biological cells. A ring of interconnected self-propelled particles represents the cell. Neighboring particles are subject to harmonic and bending potentials. Within a characteristic time, each particle's self-velocity tends to align with its scattering velocity after an interaction. Translational modes, rotational modes, and mixtures of these appear as collective states. Using analytical results derived from active Brownian particles, we identify effective characteristic time scales for ballistic and diffusive movements. Finite-size scale investigation shows that the ring diffusion increases linearly with its size when in collective movement. A study on the ring shape reveals that all collective states are present even when bending forces are weak. In that case, when in a translational mode, the collective velocity aligns with the largest ring's direction in a spontaneous polarization emergence.
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- Emanuel F Teixeira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, CP 15051, CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil.
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Hindes J, Edwards V, Hsieh MA, Schwartz IB. Critical transition for colliding swarms. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:062602. [PMID: 34271651 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.062602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Swarming patterns that emerge from the interaction of many mobile agents are a subject of great interest in fields ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In some application areas, multiple swarms effectively interact and collide, producing complex spatiotemporal patterns. Recent studies have begun to address swarm-on-swarm dynamics, and in particular the scattering of two large, colliding swarms with nonlinear interactions. To build on early numerical insights, we develop a self-propelled, rigid-body approximation that can be used to predict the parameters under which colliding swarms are expected to form a milling state. Our analytical method relies on the assumption that, upon collision, two swarms oscillate near a limit cycle, where each swarm rotates around the other while maintaining an approximately constant and uniform density. Using this approach we are able to predict the critical swarm-on-swarm interaction coupling, below which two colliding swarms merely scatter, as a function of physical swarm parameters. We show that the critical coupling gives a lower bound for all impact parameters, including head-on collision, and corresponds to a saddle-node bifurcation of a stable limit cycle in the uniform, constant density approximation. Our results are tested and found to agree with both small and large multiagent simulations.
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- Jason Hindes
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.,Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, Pennsylvania
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- Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, Pennsylvania
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Brilliantov NV, Abutuqayqah H, Tyukin IY, Matveev SA. Swirlonic state of active matter. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16783. [PMID: 33033334 PMCID: PMC7546729 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73824-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We report a novel state of active matter-a swirlonic state. It is comprised of swirlons, formed by groups of active particles orbiting their common center of mass. These quasi-particles demonstrate a surprising behavior: In response to an external load they move with a constant velocity proportional to the applied force, just as objects in viscous media. The swirlons attract each other and coalesce forming a larger, joint swirlon. The coalescence is extremely slow, decelerating process, resulting in a rarified state of immobile quasi-particles. In addition to the swirlonic state, we observe gaseous, liquid and solid states, depending on the inter-particle and self-driving forces. Interestingly, in contrast to molecular systems, liquid and gaseous states of active matter do not coexist. We explain this unusual phenomenon by the lack of fast particles in active matter. We perform extensive numerical simulations and theoretical analysis. The predictions of the theory agree qualitatively and quantitatively with the simulation results.
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- Nikolai V Brilliantov
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", Professora Popova 5, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
- Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, RAS, Gubkin st. 8, Moscow, Russia.
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Hindes J, Edwards V, Kamimoto S, Stantchev G, Schwartz IB. Stability of milling patterns in self-propelled swarms on surfaces. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:022212. [PMID: 32942377 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.022212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In some physical and biological swarms, agents effectively move and interact along curved surfaces. The associated constraints and symmetries can affect collective-motion patterns, but little is known about pattern stability in the presence of surface curvature. To make progress, we construct a general model for self-propelled swarms moving on surfaces using Lagrangian mechanics. We find that the combination of self-propulsion, friction, mutual attraction, and surface curvature produce milling patterns where each agent in a swarm oscillates on a limit cycle with different agents splayed along the cycle such that the swarm's center-of-mass remains stationary. In general, such patterns loose stability when mutual attraction is insufficient to overcome the constraint of curvature, and we uncover two broad classes of stationary milling-state bifurcations. In the first, a spatially periodic mode undergoes a Hopf bifurcation as curvature is increased, which results in unstable spatiotemporal oscillations. This generic bifurcation is analyzed for the sphere and demonstrated numerically for several surfaces. In the second, a saddle-node-of-periodic orbits occurs in which stable and unstable milling states collide and annihilate. The latter is analyzed for milling states on cylindrical surfaces. Our results contribute to the general understanding of swarm pattern formation and stability in the presence of surface curvature and may aid in designing robotic swarms that can be controlled to move over complex surfaces and terrains.
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- Jason Hindes
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA
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Agrawal NK, Mahapatra PS. Effect of particle fraction on phase transitions in an active-passive particles system. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:042607. [PMID: 32422756 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.042607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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We study phase transition in a binary system of monodisperse active and passive particles. The particles are initially randomly positioned inside a fixed boundary square enclosure. The active particles can move with their self-propulsion force. Whereas, the passive particles do not have any self-propulsion force, and they move by the spatial interactions with other particles. An alignment force in our discrete element model causes the emergence of collective milling motion. Without this alignment interaction, the particle system remains in a disordered phase. Whereas, the ordered milling phase is attained after achieving a minimum coordination among neighboring particles. The phase transition from disordered to ordered depends upon the relative effect of self-propulsion and the alignment, initial states of the particles, noise level, and the fraction of the active particles present in the system. The phase transition we observed is of first-order nature.
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- Naveen Kumar Agrawal
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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Hindes J, Edwards V, Kamimoto S, Triandaf I, Schwartz IB. Unstable modes and bistability in delay-coupled swarms. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:042202. [PMID: 32422704 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.042202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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It is known that introducing time delays into the communication network of mobile-agent swarms produces coherent rotational patterns, from both theory and experiments. Often such spatiotemporal rotations can be bistable with other swarming patterns, such as milling and flocking. Yet, most known bifurcation results related to delay-coupled swarms rely on inaccurate mean-field techniques. As a consequence, the utility of applying macroscopic theory as a guide for predicting and controlling swarms of mobile robots has been limited. To overcome this limitation, we perform an exact stability analysis of two primary swarming patterns in a general model with time-delayed interactions. By correctly identifying the relevant spatiotemporal modes, we are able to accurately predict unstable oscillations beyond the mean-field dynamics and bistability in large swarms-laying the groundwork for comparisons to robotics experiments.
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- Jason Hindes
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5514, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Noetel J, Schimansky-Geier L. Analysis of aligning active local searchers orbiting around their common home position. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:032125. [PMID: 31639976 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.032125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We discuss effects of pairwise aligning interactions in an ensemble of central place foragers or of searchers that are connected to a common home. In a wider sense, we also consider self-moving entities that are attracted to a central place such as, for instance, the zooplankton Daphnia being attracted to a beam of light. Single foragers move with constant speed due to some propulsive mechanism. They explore at random loops the space around and return rhytmically to their home. In the ensemble, the direction of the velocity of a searcher is aligned to the motion of its neighbors. At first, we perform simulations of this ensemble and find a cooperative behavior of the entities. Above an overcritical interaction strength the trajectories of the searcher qualitatively changes and searchers start to move along circles around the home position. Thereby, all searchers rotate either clockwise or anticlockwise around the central home position as it was reported for the zooplankton Daphnia. At second, the computational findings are analytically explained by the formulation of transport equations outgoing from the nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equation of the considered situation. In the asymptotic stationary limit, we find expressions for the critical interaction strength, the mean radial and orbital velocities of the searchers and their velocity variances. We also obtain the marginal spatial and angular densities in the undercritical regime where the foragers behave like individuals as well as in the overcritical regime where they rotate collectively around the considered home. We additionally elaborate the overdamped Smoluchowski-limit for the ensemble.
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- J Noetel
- Institute of Physics, Humboldt University at Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Humboldt University at Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University at Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
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Copenhagen K, Malet-Engra G, Yu W, Scita G, Gov N, Gopinathan A. Frustration-induced phases in migrating cell clusters. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaar8483. [PMID: 30214934 PMCID: PMC6135545 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar8483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Certain malignant cancer cells form clusters in a chemoattractant gradient, which can spontaneously show three different phases of motion: translational, rotational, and random. Guided by our experiments on the motion of two-dimensional clusters in vitro, we developed an agent-based model in which the cells form a cohesive cluster due to attractive and alignment interactions. We find that when cells at the cluster rim are more motile, all three phases of motion coexist, in agreement with our observations. Using the model, we show that the transitions between different phases are driven by competition between an ordered rim and a disordered core accompanied by the creation and annihilation of topological defects in the velocity field. The model makes specific predictions, which we verify with our experimental data. Our results suggest that heterogeneous behavior of individuals, based on local environment, can lead to novel, experimentally observed phases of collective motion.
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- Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology (DIPO), School of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- IFOM Foundation, Institute FIRC (Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro) of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology (DIPO), School of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- IFOM Foundation, Institute FIRC (Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro) of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Corresponding author. (N.G.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA
- Corresponding author. (N.G.); (A.G.)
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Durve M, Saha A, Sayeed A. Active particle condensation by non-reciprocal and time-delayed interactions. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2018; 41:49. [PMID: 29626264 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11653-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We consider the flocking of self-propelling agents in two dimensions, each of which communicates with its neighbors within a limited vision-cone. Also, the communication occurs with some time-delay. The communication among the agents are modeled by Vicsek rules. In this study we explore the combined effect of non-reciprocal interaction (induced by limited vision-cone) among the agents and the presence of delay in the interactions on the dynamical pattern formation within the flock. We find that under these two influences, without any position-based attractive interactions or confining boundaries, the agents can spontaneously condense into "drops". Though the agents are in motion within the drop, the drop as a whole is pinned in space. We find that this novel state of the flock has a well-defined order and it is stabilized by the noise present in the system.
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- Mihir Durve
- Department of Physics, Università degli studi di Trieste, 34127, Trieste, Italy
- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 34151, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 411007, Pune, India.
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- Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 411007, Pune, India
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Murakami H, Niizato T, Gunji YP. Emergence of a coherent and cohesive swarm based on mutual anticipation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46447. [PMID: 28406173 PMCID: PMC5390294 DOI: 10.1038/srep46447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Collective behavior emerging out of self-organization is one of the most striking properties of an animal group. Typically, it is hypothesized that each individual in an animal group tends to align its direction of motion with those of its neighbors. Most previous models for collective behavior assume an explicit alignment rule, by which an agent matches its velocity with that of neighbors in a certain neighborhood, to reproduce a collective order pattern by simple interactions. Recent empirical studies, however, suggest that there is no evidence for explicit matching of velocity, and that collective polarization arises from interactions other than those that follow the explicit alignment rule. We here propose a new lattice-based computational model that does not incorporate the explicit alignment rule but is based instead on mutual anticipation and asynchronous updating. Moreover, we show that this model can realize densely collective motion with high polarity. Furthermore, we focus on the behavior of a pair of individuals, and find that the turning response is drastically changed depending on the distance between two individuals rather than the relative heading, and is consistent with the empirical observations. Therefore, the present results suggest that our approach provides an alternative model for collective behavior.
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- Hisashi Murakami
- Kanagawa University, Department of Information Systems Creation, Yokohama, 221-8686, Japan
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- Tsukuba University, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, Tsukuba, 305-8571, Japan
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- Waseda University, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Shinjuku, 169-0072, Japan
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Hindes J, Szwaykowska K, Schwartz IB. Hybrid dynamics in delay-coupled swarms with mothership networks. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:032306. [PMID: 27739837 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.032306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Swarming behavior continues to be a subject of immense interest because of its centrality in many naturally occurring systems in physics and biology, as well as its importance in applications such as robotics. Here we examine the effects on swarm pattern formation from delayed communication and topological heterogeneity, and in particular, the inclusion of a relatively small number of highly connected nodes, or "motherships," in a swarm's communication network. We find generalized forms of basic patterns for networks with general degree distributions, and a variety of dynamic behaviors including parameter regions with multistability and hybrid motions in bimodal networks. The latter is an interesting example of how heterogeneous networks can have dynamics that is a mix of different states in homogeneous networks, where high- and low-degree nodes have distinct behavior simultaneously.
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- Jason Hindes
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Szwaykowska K, Schwartz IB, Mier-Y-Teran Romero L, Heckman CR, Mox D, Hsieh MA. Collective motion patterns of swarms with delay coupling: Theory and experiment. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:032307. [PMID: 27078366 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.032307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The formation of coherent patterns in swarms of interacting self-propelled autonomous agents is a subject of great interest in a wide range of application areas, ranging from engineering and physics to biology. In this paper, we model and experimentally realize a mixed-reality large-scale swarm of delay-coupled agents. The coupling term is modeled as a delayed communication relay of position. Our analyses, assuming agents communicating over an Erdös-Renyi network, demonstrate the existence of stable coherent patterns that can be achieved only with delay coupling and that are robust to decreasing network connectivity and heterogeneity in agent dynamics. We also show how the bifurcation structure for emergence of different patterns changes with heterogeneity in agent acceleration capabilities and limited connectivity in the network as a function of coupling strength and delay. Our results are verified through simulation as well as preliminary experimental results of delay-induced pattern formation in a mixed-reality swarm.
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- Klementyna Szwaykowska
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Washington, DC, USA
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- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Plasma Physics Division, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Washington, DC, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Scalable Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Drexel University, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Scalable Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Breier RE, Selinger RLB, Ciccotti G, Herminghaus S, Mazza MG. Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in collective active motion. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:022410. [PMID: 26986365 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.022410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chiral symmetry breaking is ubiquitous in biological systems, from DNA to bacterial suspensions. A key unresolved problem is how chiral structures may spontaneously emerge from achiral interactions. We study a simple model of active swimmers in three dimensions that effectively incorporates hydrodynamic interactions. We perform large-scale molecular dynamics simulations (up to 10(6) particles) and find long-lived metastable collective states that exhibit chiral organization although the interactions are achiral. We elucidate under which conditions these chiral states will emerge and grow to large scales. To explore the complex phase space available to the system, we perform nonequilibrium quenches on a one-dimensional Lebwohl-Lasher model with periodic boundary conditions to study the likelihood of formation of chiral structures.
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- Rebekka E Breier
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.,School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Zeng C, Zeng J, Liu F, Wang H. Impact of correlated noise in an energy depot model. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19591. [PMID: 26786478 PMCID: PMC4726301 DOI: 10.1038/srep19591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Based on the depot model of the motion of active Brownian particles (ABPs), the impact of cross-correlated multiplicative and additive noises has been investigated. Using a nonlinear Langevin approach, we discuss a new mechanism for the transport of ABPs in which the energy originates from correlated noise. It is shown that the correlation between two types of noise breaks the symmetry of the potential to generate motion of the ABPs with a net velocity. The absolute maximum value of the mean velocity depends on correlated noise or multiplicative noise, whereas a monotonic decrease in the mean velocity occurs with additive noise. In the case of no correlation, the ABPs undergo pure diffusion with zero mean velocity, whereas in the case of perfect correlation, the ABPs undergo pure drift with zero diffusion. This shows that the energy stemming from correlated noise is primarily converted to kinetic energy of the intrawell motion and is eventually dissipated in drift motion. A physical explanation of the mechanisms for noise-driven transport of ABPs is derived from the effective potential of the Fokker-Planck equation.
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- Chunhua Zeng
- State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization/Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, P.R. China.,Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization/Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, P.R. China
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- Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization/Faculty of Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, P.R. China
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Li W. Collective Motion of Swarming Agents Evolving on a Sphere Manifold: A Fundamental Framework and Characterization. Sci Rep 2015; 5:13603. [PMID: 26350632 PMCID: PMC4563374 DOI: 10.1038/srep13603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Collective motion of self-propelled agents has attracted much attention in vast disciplines. However, almost all investigations focus on such agents evolving in the Euclidean space, with rare concern of swarms on non-Euclidean manifolds. Here we present a novel and fundamental framework for agents evolving on a sphere manifold, with which a variety of concrete cooperative-rules of agents can be designed separately and integrated easily into the framework, which may perhaps pave a way for considering general spherical collective motion (SCM) of a swarm. As an example, one concrete cooperative-rule, i.e., the spherical direction-alignment (SDA), is provided, which corresponds to the usual and popular direction-alignment rule in the Euclidean space. The SCM of the agents with the SDA has many unique statistical properties and phase-transitions that are unexpected in the counterpart models evolving in the Euclidean space, which unveils that the topology of the sphere has an important impact on swarming emergence.
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- Wei Li
- Department of Control and Systems Engineering, Nanjing University, China
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Dossetti V, Sevilla FJ. Emergence of Collective Motion in a Model of Interacting Brownian Particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:058301. [PMID: 26274444 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.058301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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By studying a system of Brownian particles that interact among themselves only through a local velocity-alignment force that does not affect their speed, we show that self-propulsion is not a necessary feature for the flocking transition to take place as long as underdamped particle dynamics can be guaranteed. Moreover, the system transits from stationary phases close to thermal equilibrium, with no net flux of particles, to far-from-equilibrium ones exhibiting collective motion, phase coexistence, long-range order, and giant number fluctuations, features typically associated with ordered phases of models where self-propelled particles with overdamped dynamics are considered.
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- Victor Dossetti
- CIDS-Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av. San Claudio esq. 14 Sur, Edif. 103D, Puebla, Pue. 72570, Mexico
- Instituto de Física, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal J-48, Puebla, Puebla 72570, Mexico
- Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 20-364, 01000 México D.F., Mexico
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Duan H, Zhang X. Phase transition of vortexlike self-propelled particles induced by a hostile particle. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:012701. [PMID: 26274197 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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When encountering a hostile particle, the avoidance behaviors of the vortex state of self-propelled particles exhibit phase transition phenomena such that the vortex state can change into a crystal state. Based on the self-propelled particle model and a molecular dynamics simulation, the dynamic response of the vortex swarm induced by a hostile particle (predator or obstacle) is studied. Three parameters are defined to characterize the collective escaping behaviors, including the order parameter, the flock size, and the roundness parameter. If a predator moves slower with a larger risk radius, the vortex swarm cannot return to its original vortex state, but rather transforms into a crystal state. The critical phase transition radius, the maximum risk radius of a predator with which the transition from a vortex to crystal state cannot take place, is also examined by considering the influence of the model parameters. To some degree, the critical radius reflects the stability and robustness of the vortex swarm.
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- Haibin Duan
- Bio-inspired Autonomous Flight Systems (BAFS) Research Group, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Bio-inspired Autonomous Flight Systems (BAFS) Research Group, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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Barroo C, De Decker Y, Visart de Bocarmé T, Gaspard P. Fluctuating Dynamics of Nanoscale Chemical Oscillations: Theory and Experiments. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:2189-2193. [PMID: 26266590 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Chemical oscillations are observed in a variety of reactive systems, including biological cells, for the functionality of which they play a central role. However, at such scales, molecular fluctuations are expected to endanger the regularity of these behaviors. The question of the mechanism by which robust oscillations can nevertheless emerge is still open. In this work, we report on the experimental investigation of nanoscale chemical oscillations observed during the NO2 + H2 reaction on platinum, using field electron microscopy. We show that the correlation time and the variance of the period of oscillations are connected by a universal constraint, as predicted theoretically for systems subjected to a phenomenon called phase diffusion. These results open the way to a better understanding, modeling, and control of nanoscale oscillators.
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- Cédric Barroo
- ‡Chemical Physics of Materials - Catalysis and Tribology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus Plaine, Code Postal 243, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- ‡Chemical Physics of Materials - Catalysis and Tribology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus Plaine, Code Postal 243, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Non-equilibrium thermodynamical description of rhythmic motion patterns of active systems: a canonical-dissipative approach. Biosystems 2015; 128:26-36. [PMID: 25619737 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2014] [Revised: 12/10/2014] [Accepted: 01/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We derive explicit expressions for the non-equilibrium thermodynamical variables of a canonical-dissipative limit cycle oscillator describing rhythmic motion patterns of active systems. These variables are statistical entropy, non-equilibrium internal energy, and non-equilibrium free energy. In particular, the expression for the non-equilibrium free energy is derived as a function of a suitable control parameter. The control parameter determines the Hopf bifurcation point of the deterministic active system and describes the effective pumping of the oscillator. In analogy to the equilibrium free energy of the Landau theory, it is shown that the non-equilibrium free energy decays as a function of the control parameter. In doing so, a similarity between certain equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions is pointed out. Data from an experiment on human rhythmic movements is presented. Estimates for pumping intensity as well as the thermodynamical variables are reported. It is shown that in the experiment the non-equilibrium free energy decayed when pumping intensity was increased, which is consistent with the theory. Moreover, pumping intensities close to zero could be observed at relatively slow intended rhythmic movements. In view of the Hopf bifurcation underlying the limit cycle oscillator model, this observation suggests that the intended limit cycle movements were actually more similar to trajectories of a randomly perturbed stable focus.
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Giuggioli L, Kenkre VM. Consequences of animal interactions on their dynamics: emergence of home ranges and territoriality. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY 2014; 2:20. [PMID: 25709829 PMCID: PMC4337768 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-014-0020-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Animal spacing has important implications for population abundance, species demography and the environment. Mechanisms underlying spatial segregation have their roots in the characteristics of the animals, their mutual interaction and their response, collective as well as individual, to environmental variables. This review describes how the combination of these factors shapes the patterns we observe and presents a practical, usable framework for the analysis of movement data in confined spaces. The basis of the framework is the theory of interacting random walks and the mathematical description of out-of-equilibrium systems. Although our focus is on modelling and interpreting animal home ranges and territories in vertebrates, we believe further studies on invertebrates may also help to answer questions and resolve unanswered puzzles that are still inaccessible to experimental investigation in vertebrate species.
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- Luca Giuggioli
- />Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, Department of Engineering Mathematics and School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UB UK
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- />Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131 New Mexico USA
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Olivetti A, Labeyrie G, Kaiser R. Approximated center-of-mass motion for systems of interacting particles with space- and velocity-dependent friction and anharmonic potential. Phys Rev E 2014; 89:052120. [PMID: 25353752 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.052120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the center-of-mass motion in systems of trapped interacting particles with space- and velocity-dependent friction and anharmonic traps. Our approach, based on a dynamical ansatz assuming a fixed density profile, allows us to obtain information at once for a wide range of binary interactions and interaction strengths, at linear and nonlinear levels. Our findings are first tested on different simple models by comparison with direct numerical simulations. Then, we apply the method to characterize the motion of the center of mass of a magneto-optical trap and its dependence on the number of trapped atoms. Our predictions are compared with experiments performed on a large Rb(85) magneto-optical trap.
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- Alain Olivetti
- Cité mixte du Parc Impérial, 2 Avenue Paul Arène, 06050 Nice Cedex, France and Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné, UMR CNRS 6621, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, F-06108 Nice Cedex 02, France
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- Institut Non Lineaire de Nice, UMR 7335, 1361 route des Lucioles, F-06560 Valbonne, France
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- Institut Non Lineaire de Nice, UMR 7335, 1361 route des Lucioles, F-06560 Valbonne, France
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Yang Y, Qiu F, Gompper G. Self-organized vortices of circling self-propelled particles and curved active flagella. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:012720. [PMID: 24580270 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.012720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Self-propelled pointlike particles move along circular trajectories when their translocation velocity is constant and the angular velocity related to their orientation vector is also constant. We investigate the collective behavior of ensembles of such circle swimmers by Brownian dynamics simulations. If the particles interact via a "velocity-trajectory coordination" rule within neighboring particles, a self-organized vortex pattern emerges. This vortex pattern is characterized by its particle-density correlation function Gρ, the density correlation function Gc of trajectory centers, and an order parameter S representing the degree of the aggregation of the particles. Here we systematically vary the system parameters, such as the particle density and the interaction range, in order to reveal the transition of the system from a light-vortex-dominated to heavy-vortex-dominated state, where vortices contain mainly a single and many self-propelled particles, respectively. We also study a semidilute solution of curved, sinusoidal-beating flagella, as an example of circling self-propelled particles with explicit propulsion mechanism and excluded-volume interactions. Our simulation results are compared with previous experimental results for the vortices in sea-urchin sperm solutions near a wall. The properties of the vortices in simulations and experiments are found to agree quantitatively.
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- Yingzi Yang
- The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute of Complex Systems and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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Lin Y, Abaid N. Collective behavior and predation success in a predator-prey model inspired by hunting bats. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:062724. [PMID: 24483503 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.062724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We establish an agent-based model to study the impact of prey behavior on the hunting success of predators. The predators and prey are modeled as self-propelled particles moving in a three-dimensional domain and subject to specific sensing abilities and behavioral rules inspired by bat hunting. The predators randomly search for prey. The prey either align velocity directions with peers, defined as "interacting" prey, or swarm "independently" of peer presence; both types of prey are subject to additive noise. In a simulation study, we find that interacting prey using low noise have the maximum predation avoidance because they form localized large groups, while they suffer high predation as noise increases due to the formation of broadly dispersed small groups. Independent prey, which are likely to be uniformly distributed in the domain, have higher predation risk under a low noise regime as they traverse larger spatial extents. These effects are enhanced in large prey populations, which exhibit more ordered collective behavior or more uniform spatial distribution as they are interacting or independent, respectively.
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- Yuan Lin
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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Hanke T, Weber CA, Frey E. Understanding collective dynamics of soft active colloids by binary scattering. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:052309. [PMID: 24329266 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.052309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Collective motion in actively propelled particle systems is triggered on the very local scale by nucleation of coherently moving units consisting of just a handful of particles. These units grow and merge over time, ending up in a long-range ordered, coherently moving state. So far, there exists no bottom-up understanding of how the microscopic dynamics and interactions between the constituents are related to the system's ordering instability. In this paper, we study a class of models for propelled colloids allowing an explicit treatment of the microscopic details of the collision process. Specifically, the model equations are Newtonian equations of motion with separate force terms for particles' driving, dissipation, and interaction forces. Focusing on dilute particle systems, we analyze the binary scattering behavior for these models and determine-based on the microscopic dynamics-the corresponding "collision rule," i.e., the mapping of precollisional velocities and impact parameter on postcollisional velocities. By studying binary scattering we also find that the considered models for active colloids share the same principle for parallel alignment: The first incoming particle (with respect to the center of collision) is aligned to the second particle as a result of the encounter. This behavior distinctively differs from alignment in nondriven dissipative gases. Moreover, the obtained collision rule lends itself as a starting point to apply kinetic theory for propelled particle systems in order to determine the phase boundary to a long-range ordered, coherently moving state. The microscopic origin of the collision rule offers the opportunity to quantitatively scrutinize the predictions of kinetic theory for propelled particle systems through direct comparison with multiparticle simulations. We identify local precursor correlations at the onset of collective motion to constitute the essential determinant for a qualitative and quantitative validity of kinetic theory. In conclusion, our "renormalized" approach clearly indicates that the framework of kinetic theory is flexible enough to accommodate the complex behavior of soft active colloids and allows a bottom-up understanding of how the microscopic dynamics of binary collisions relates to the system's behavior on large length and time scales.
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- Timo Hanke
- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Vallotton P. Size matters: Filamentous bacteria drive interstitial vortex formation and colony expansion inPaenibacillus vortex. Cytometry A 2013; 83:1105-12. [DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2013] [Revised: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 08/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Pascal Vallotton
- CSIRO, Division of Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics; North Ryde New South Wales 1670 Australia
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Lindley B, Mier-Y-Teran-Romero L, Schwartz IB. Noise Induced Pattern Switching in Randomly Distributed Delayed Swarms. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ... AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE. AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE 2013; 2013:4587-4591. [PMID: 25382931 DOI: 10.1109/acc.2013.6580546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We study the effects of noise on the dynamics of a system of coupled self-propelling particles in the case where the coupling is time-delayed, and the delays are discrete and randomly generated. Previous work has demonstrated that the stability of a class of emerging patterns depends upon all moments of the time delay distribution, and predicts their bifurcation parameter ranges. Near the bifurcations of these patterns, noise may induce a transition from one type of pattern to another. We study the onset of these noise-induced swarm re-organizations by numerically simulating the system over a range of noise intensities and for various distributions of the delays. Interestingly, there is a critical noise threshold above which the system is forced to transition from a less organized state to a more organized one. We explore this phenomenon by quantifying this critical noise threshold, and note that transition time between states varies as a function of both the noise intensity and delay distribution.
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- Brandon Lindley
- US Naval Research Labooratory, Code 6792, Washington, DC 20375 USA,
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- US Naval Research Labooratory, Code 6792, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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Mier-Y-Teran-Romero L, Lindley B, Schwartz IB. Statistical multimoment bifurcations in random-delay coupled swarms. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:056202. [PMID: 23214852 PMCID: PMC3845360 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.056202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We study the effects of discrete, randomly distributed time delays on the dynamics of a coupled system of self-propelling particles. Bifurcation analysis on a mean field approximation of the system reveals that the system possesses patterns with certain universal characteristics that depend on distinguished moments of the time delay distribution. Specifically, we show both theoretically and numerically that although bifurcations of simple patterns, such as translations, change stability only as a function of the first moment of the time delay distribution, more complex patterns arising from Hopf bifurcations depend on all of the moments.
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- Luis Mier-Y-Teran-Romero
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Nonlinear System Dynamics Section, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Mier-y-Teran-Romero L, Forgoston E, Schwartz IB. Coherent Pattern Prediction in Swarms of Delay-Coupled Agents. IEEE T ROBOT 2012; 28:1034-1044. [DOI: 10.1109/tro.2012.2198511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Chen H, Hou Z. Noise-induced vortex reversal of self-propelled particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:041122. [PMID: 23214544 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.041122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Revised: 08/25/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We report an interesting phenomenon of noise-induced vortex reversal in a two-dimensional system of self-propelled particles (SPPs) with soft-core interactions. With the aid of forward flux sampling, we analyze the configurations along the reversal pathway and thus identify the mechanism of vortex reversal. We find that the reversal exhibits a hierarchical process: those particles at the periphery first change their motion directions, and then more inner layers of particles reverse later on. Furthermore, we calculate the dependence of the average reversal rate on noise intensity D and the number N of SPPs. We find that the rate decreases exponentially with the reciprocal of D. Interestingly, the rate varies nonmonotonically with N and a local minimal rate exists for an intermediate value of N.
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- Hanshuang Chen
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscales & Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
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Romanczuk P, Schimansky-Geier L. Swarming and pattern formation due to selective attraction and repulsion. Interface Focus 2012; 2:746-56. [PMID: 24312728 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We discuss the collective dynamics of self-propelled particles with selective attraction and repulsion interactions. Each particle, or individual, may respond differently to its neighbours depending on the sign of their relative velocity. Thus, it is able to distinguish approaching (coming closer) and retreating (moving away) individuals. This differentiation of the social response is motivated by the response to looming visual stimuli and may be seen as a generalization of the previously proposed escape and pursuit interactions motivated by empirical evidence for cannibalism as a driving force of collective migration in locusts and Mormon crickets. The model can account for different types of behaviour such as pure attraction, pure repulsion or escape and pursuit, depending on the values (signs) of the different response strengths. It provides, in the light of recent experimental results, an interesting alternative to previously proposed models of collective motion with an explicit velocity-alignment interaction. We discuss the derivation of a coarse-grained description of the system dynamics, which allows us to derive analytically the necessary condition for emergence of collective motion. Furthermore, we analyse systematically the onset of collective motion and clustering in numerical simulations of the model for varying interaction strengths. We show that collective motion arises only in a subregion of the parameter space, which is consistent with the analytical prediction and corresponds to an effective escape and/or pursuit response.
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- Pawel Romanczuk
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzerstrasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Dieck Kattas G, Xu XK, Small M. Generating self-organizing collective behavior using separation dynamics from experimental data. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2012; 22:033113. [PMID: 23020452 DOI: 10.1063/1.4737203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Mathematical models for systems of interacting agents using simple local rules have been proposed and shown to exhibit emergent swarming behavior. Most of these models are constructed by intuition or manual observations of real phenomena, and later tuned or verified to simulate desired dynamics. In contrast to this approach, we propose using a model that attempts to follow an averaged rule of the essential distance-dependent collective behavior of real pigeon flocks, which was abstracted from experimental data. By using a simple model to follow the behavioral tendencies of real data, we show that our model can exhibit a wide range of emergent self-organizing dynamics such as flocking, pattern formation, and counter-rotating vortices.
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- Graciano Dieck Kattas
- Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Baglietto G, Albano EV, Candia J. Criticality and the onset of ordering in the standard Vicsek model. Interface Focus 2012; 2:708-14. [PMID: 24312724 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Experimental observations of animal collective behaviour have shown stunning evidence for the emergence of large-scale cooperative phenomena resembling phase transitions in physical systems. Indeed, quantitative studies have found scale-free correlations and critical behaviour consistent with the occurrence of continuous, second-order phase transitions. The standard Vicsek model (SVM), a minimal model of self-propelled particles in which their tendency to align with each other competes with perturbations controlled by a noise term, appears to capture the essential ingredients of critical flocking phenomena. In this paper, we review recent finite-size scaling and dynamical studies of the SVM, which present a full characterization of the continuous phase transition through dynamical and critical exponents. We also present a complex network analysis of SVM flocks and discuss the onset of ordering in connection with XY-like spin models.
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- Gabriel Baglietto
- Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos (CCT-CONICET-La Plata, UNLP), 59 Nro 789, 1900 La Plata, Argentina ; Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina
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Nguyen NHP, Jankowski E, Glotzer SC. Thermal and athermal three-dimensional swarms of self-propelled particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:011136. [PMID: 23005397 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.011136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2011] [Revised: 06/07/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Swarms of self-propelled particles exhibit complex behavior that can arise from simple models, with large changes in swarm behavior resulting from small changes in model parameters. We investigate the steady-state swarms formed by self-propelled Morse particles in three dimensions using molecular dynamics simulations optimized for graphics processing units. We find a variety of swarms of different overall shape assemble spontaneously and that for certain Morse potential parameters at most two competing structures are observed. We report a rich "phase diagram" of athermal swarm structures observed across a broad range of interaction parameters. Unlike the structures formed in equilibrium self-assembly, we find that the probability of forming a self-propelled swarm can be biased by the choice of initial conditions. We investigate how thermal noise influences swarm formation and demonstrate ways it can be exploited to reconfigure one swarm into another. Our findings validate and extend previous observations of self-propelled Morse swarms and highlight open questions for predictive theories of nonequilibrium self-assembly.
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- Nguyen H P Nguyen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Abaid N, Bollt E, Porfiri M. Topological analysis of complexity in multiagent systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:041907. [PMID: 22680498 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.041907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Social organisms at every level of evolutionary complexity live in groups, such as fish schools, locust swarms, and bird flocks. The complex exchange of multifaceted information across group members may result in a spectrum of salient spatiotemporal patterns characterizing collective behaviors. While instances of collective behavior in animal groups are readily identifiable by trained and untrained observers, a working definition to distinguish these patterns from raw data is not yet established. In this work, we define collective behavior as a manifestation of low-dimensional manifolds in the group motion and we quantify the complexity of such behaviors through the dimensionality of these structures. We demonstrate this definition using the ISOMAP algorithm, a data-driven machine learning algorithm for dimensionality reduction originally formulated in the context of image processing. We apply the ISOMAP algorithm to data from an interacting self-propelled particle model with additive noise, whose parameters are selected to exhibit different behavioral modalities, and from a video of a live fish school. Based on simulations of such model, we find that increasing noise in the system of particles corresponds to increasing the dimensionality of the structures underlying their motion. These low-dimensional structures are absent in simulations where particles do not interact. Applying the ISOMAP algorithm to fish school data, we identify similar low-dimensional structures, which may act as quantitative evidence for order inherent in collective behavior of animal groups. These results offer an unambiguous method for measuring order in data from large-scale biological systems and confirm the emergence of collective behavior in an applicable mathematical model, thus demonstrating that such models are capable of capturing phenomena observed in animal groups.
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- Nicole Abaid
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, USA
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Lindley B, Mier-y-Teran-Romero L, Schwartz IB. Randomly Distributed Delayed Communication and Coherent Swarm Patterns. IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION : ICRA : [PROCEEDINGS]. IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION 2012:10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224993. [PMID: 24309679 PMCID: PMC3845355 DOI: 10.1109/icra.2012.6224993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Previously we showed how delay communication between globally coupled self-propelled agents causes new spatio-temporal patterns to arise when the delay coupling is fixed among all agents [1]. In this paper, we show how discrete, randomly distributed delays affect the dynamical patterns. In particular, we investigate how the standard deviation of the time delay distribution affects the stability of the different patterns as well as the switching probability between coherent states.
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- Brandon Lindley
- NRC postodctoral fellow at the US Naval Research Labooratory, Code 6792, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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- US Naval Research Labooratory, Code 6792, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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Biggs JD, Bennet DJ, Dadzie SK. Time-delayed autosynchronous swarm control. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:016105. [PMID: 22400623 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.016105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2011] [Revised: 09/15/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In this paper a general Morse potential model of self-propelling particles is considered in the presence of a time-delayed term and a spring potential. It is shown that the emergent swarm behavior is dependent on the delay term and weights of the time-delayed function, which can be set to induce a stationary swarm, a rotating swarm with uniform translation, and a rotating swarm with a stationary center of mass. An analysis of the mean field equations shows that without a spring potential the motion of the center of mass is determined explicitly by a multivalued function. For a nonzero spring potential the swarm converges to a vortex formation about a stationary center of mass, except at discrete bifurcation points where the center of mass will periodically trace an ellipse. The analytical results defining the behavior of the center of mass are shown to correspond with the numerical swarm simulations.
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- James D Biggs
- Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Romanczuk P, Ebeling W, Erdmann U, Schimansky-Geier L. Active particles with broken symmetry. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2011; 21:047517. [PMID: 22225391 DOI: 10.1063/1.3669493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We discuss and analyze the driving a polar active particle with a head-tail asymmetry based on the dynamics of an internal motor variable driven by an energy depot and a broken symmetry of friction with respect to the internal degree of freedom. We show that such a driving may be advantageous for driving large masses with small energy uptake from the environment and exhibits interesting properties such as resonance-driven optimal propulsion.
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- Pawel Romanczuk
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Enculescu M, Stark H. Active colloidal suspensions exhibit polar order under gravity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:058301. [PMID: 21867100 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.058301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2011] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Recently, the steady sedimentation profile of a dilute suspension of chemically powered colloids was studied experimentally [J. Palacci et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 088304 (2010)]. It was found that the sedimentation length increases quadratically with the swimming speed of the active Brownian particles. Here we investigate theoretically the sedimentation of self-propelled particles undergoing translational and rotational diffusion. We find that the measured increase of the sedimentation length is coupled to a partial alignment of the suspension with the mean swimming direction oriented against the gravitational field. We suggest realistic parameter values to observe this polar order. Furthermore, we find that the dynamics of the active suspension can be derived from a generalized free energy functional.
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- Mihaela Enculescu
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Streichan SJ, Valentin G, Gilmour D, Hufnagel L. Collective cell migration guided by dynamically maintained gradients. Phys Biol 2011; 8:045004. [PMID: 21750360 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/4/045004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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How cell collectives move and deposit subunits within a developing embryo is a question of outstanding interest. In many cases, a chemotactic mechanism is employed, where cells move up or down a previously generated attractive or repulsive gradient of signalling molecules. Recent studies revealed the existence of systems with isotropic chemoattractant expression in the lateral line primordium of zebrafish. Here we propose a mechanism for a cell collective, which actively modulates an isotropically expressed ligand and encodes an initial symmetry breaking in its velocity. We derive a closed solution for the velocity and identify an optimal length that maximizes the tissues' velocity. A length dependent polar gradient is identified, its use for pro-neuromast deposition is shown by simulations and a critical time for cell deposition is derived. Experiments to verify this model are suggested.
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- Sebastian J Streichan
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Strömbom D. Collective motion from local attraction. J Theor Biol 2011; 283:145-51. [PMID: 21620861 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2010] [Revised: 05/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Many animal groups, for example schools of fish or flocks of birds, exhibit complex dynamic patterns while moving cohesively in the same direction. These flocking patterns have been studied using self-propelled particle models, most of which assume that collective motion arises from individuals aligning with their neighbours. Here, we propose a self-propelled particle model in which the only social force between individuals is attraction. We show that this model generates three different phases: swarms, undirected mills and moving aligned groups. By studying our model in the zero noise limit, we show how these phases depend on the relative strength of attraction and individual inertia. Moreover, by restricting the field of vision of the individuals and increasing the degree of noise in the system, we find that the groups generate both directed mills and three dynamically moving, 'rotating chain' structures. A rich diversity of patterns is generated by social attraction alone, which may provide insight into the dynamics of natural flocks.
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- Daniel Strömbom
- Mathematics Department, Uppsala University, Box 480, 751 06 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Ohkuma T, Ohta T. Deformable self-propelled particles with a global coupling. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2010; 20:023101. [PMID: 20590297 DOI: 10.1063/1.3374362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We have proposed a model of deformable self-propelled particles in which the time-evolution equations are given in terms of the center-of-mass velocity and a nematic order parameter representing the motion-induced deformation [T. Ohta and T. Ohkuma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 154101 (2009)]. We investigate its many-body problem applying a global orientational coupling. Depending on the strength of the interaction, the self-propelled particles exhibit various kinds of collective dynamics and chaotic behavior: a ballistic procession state, a scattered state, a coherently phase synchronized state, two types of in-phase synchronized state, and an anomalously diffusive state. The phase reduction method for the weak coupling regime reveals the bifurcations between the secular collective motions. The phase boundary among the chaos regime and the synchronized regimes is determined by the linear stability analysis of the synchronized states.
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- Takahiro Ohkuma
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Iwasa M, Tanaka D. Dimensionality of clusters in a swarm oscillator model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:066214. [PMID: 20866508 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.066214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate what is called swarm oscillator model where interacting motile oscillators form various kinds of ordered structures. We particularly focus on the dimensionality of clusters which oscillators form. In two-dimensional space, oscillators spontaneously form one-dimensional clusters or two-dimensional clusters. By studying the three-oscillator system, we analytically find the conditions of the appearance of those patterns. The validity of those conditions in applying to systems of more oscillators is demonstrated by numerically investigating a system of twenty oscillators.
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- Masatomo Iwasa
- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
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Abaid N, Porfiri M. Fish in a ring: spatio-temporal pattern formation in one-dimensional animal groups. J R Soc Interface 2010; 7:1441-53. [PMID: 20413559 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In this work, we study the collective behaviour of fish shoals in annular domains. Shoal mates are modelled as self-propelled particles moving on a discrete lattice. Collective decision-making is determined by information exchange among neighbours. Neighbourhoods are specified using the perceptual limit and numerosity of fish. Fish self-propulsion and obedience to group decisions are described through random variables. Spatio-temporal schooling patterns are measured using coarse observables adapted from the literature on coupled oscillator networks and features of the time-varying network describing the fish-to-fish information exchange. Experiments on zebrafish schooling in an annular tank are used to validate the model. Effects of group size and obedience parameter on coarse observables and network features are explored to understand the implications of perceptual numerosity and spatial density on fish schooling. The proposed model is also compared with a more traditional metric model, in which the numerosity constraint is released and fish interactions depend only on physical configurations. Comparison shows that the topological regime on which the proposed model is constructed allows for interpreting characteristic behaviours observed in the experimental study that are not captured by the metric model.
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- Nicole Abaid
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
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Iwasa M, Iida K, Tanaka D. Hierarchical cluster structures in a one-dimensional swarm oscillator model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:046220. [PMID: 20481820 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.046220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2009] [Revised: 02/12/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Swarm oscillator model derived by one of the authors (Tanaka), where interacting motile elements form various kinds of patterns, is investigated. We particularly focus on the cluster patterns in one-dimensional space. We mathematically derive all static and stable configurations in final states for a particular but a large set of parameters. In the derivation, we introduce renormalized expression of this model. We find that the static final states are hierarchical cluster structures in which a cluster consists of smaller clusters in a nesting manner.
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- Masatomo Iwasa
- Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
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You SK, Kwon DH, Park YI, Kim SM, Chung MH, Kim CK. Collective behaviors of two-component swarms. J Theor Biol 2009; 261:494-500. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2009] [Revised: 08/21/2009] [Accepted: 08/21/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ohta T, Ohkuma T, Shitara K. Deformation of a self-propelled domain in an excitable reaction-diffusion system. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 80:056203. [PMID: 20365056 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.80.056203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We formulate a theory for a self-propelled domain in an excitable reaction-diffusion system in two dimensions where the domain deforms from a circular shape when the propagation velocity is increased. In the singular limit where the width of the domain boundary is infinitesimally thin, we derive a set of equations of motion for the center of gravity and two fundamental deformation modes. The deformed shapes of a steadily propagating domain are obtained. The set of time-evolution equations exhibits a bifurcation from a straight motion to a circular motion by changing the system parameters.
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- Takao Ohta
- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Dossetti V, Sevilla FJ, Kenkre VM. Phase transitions induced by complex nonlinear noise in a system of self-propelled agents. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:051115. [PMID: 19518424 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.051115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2008] [Revised: 02/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We propose a comprehensive dynamical model for cooperative motion of self-propelled particles, e.g., flocking, by combining well-known elements such as velocity-alignment interactions, spatial interactions, and angular noise into a unified Lagrangian treatment. Noise enters into our model in an especially realistic way: it incorporates correlations, is highly nonlinear, and it leads to a unique collective behavior. Our results show distinct stability regions and an apparent change in the nature of one class of noise-induced phase transitions, with respect to the mean velocity of the group, as the range of the velocity-alignment interaction increases. This phase-transition change comes accompanied with drastic modifications of the microscopic dynamics, from nonintermittent to intermittent. Our results facilitate the understanding of the origin of the phase transitions present in other treatments.
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- V Dossetti
- Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
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