Bayesian inference of wall torques for active Brownian particles

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Hauptverfasser: Lambert, Sascha, Duchene, Merle, Klumpp, Stefan
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author Lambert, Sascha
Duchene, Merle
Klumpp, Stefan
author_facet Lambert, Sascha
Duchene, Merle
Klumpp, Stefan
contents The motility of living things and synthetic self-propelled objects is often described using Active Brownian particles. To capture the interaction of these particles with their often complex environment, this model can be augmented with empirical forces or torques, for example, to describe their alignment with an obstacle or wall after a collision. Here, we assess the quality of these empirical models by comparing their output predictions with trajectories of rod-shaped active particles that scatter sterically at a flat wall. We employ a classical least-squares method to evaluate the instantaneous torque. In addition, we lay out a Bayesian inference procedure to construct the posterior distribution of plausible model parameters. In contrast to the least squares fit, the Bayesian approach does not require orientational data of the active particle and can readily be applied to experimental tracking data.
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spellingShingle Bayesian inference of wall torques for active Brownian particles
Lambert, Sascha
Duchene, Merle
Klumpp, Stefan
Statistical Mechanics
The motility of living things and synthetic self-propelled objects is often described using Active Brownian particles. To capture the interaction of these particles with their often complex environment, this model can be augmented with empirical forces or torques, for example, to describe their alignment with an obstacle or wall after a collision. Here, we assess the quality of these empirical models by comparing their output predictions with trajectories of rod-shaped active particles that scatter sterically at a flat wall. We employ a classical least-squares method to evaluate the instantaneous torque. In addition, we lay out a Bayesian inference procedure to construct the posterior distribution of plausible model parameters. In contrast to the least squares fit, the Bayesian approach does not require orientational data of the active particle and can readily be applied to experimental tracking data.
title Bayesian inference of wall torques for active Brownian particles
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03533