Emergence of flocking for a multi-agent system moving with constant speed

Sun Ho Choi, Seung Yeal Ha

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Abstract

We present a Cucker-Smale-type flocking model for interacting multi-agents(or particles) moving with constant speed in arbitrary dimensions, and derive a sufficient condition for the asymptotic flocking in terms of spatial and velocity diameters, coupling strength and a communication weight. In literature, several Vicsek-type models with a unit speed constraint have been proposed in the modeling of self-organization and planar models were extensively studied via the dynamics of the heading angle. Our proposed model has a velocity coupling that is orthogonal to the velocity of the test agent to ensure the constancy of speed of the test agent along the dynamic process. For a flocking estimate, we derive a system of dissipative differential inequalities for spatial and velocity diameters, and we also employ a robust Lyapunov functional approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)953-972
Number of pages20
JournalCommunications in Mathematical Sciences
Volume14
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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© 2016 International Press.

Keywords

  • Cucker-smale model
  • Flocking
  • Lyapunov functional
  • Unit speed constraint
  • Vicsek model

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