Redirecting counter-moving swarms through collision
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| author | Hindes, Jason Prasad, Chinthan B. McGuire, Loy Schwartz, Ira B. |
| author_facet | Hindes, Jason Prasad, Chinthan B. McGuire, Loy Schwartz, Ira B. |
| contents | Multi-swarm systems, where two or more swarms of mobile agents occupy the same region of space with different parameters and goals, occur in a variety of biological, engineering, and defense applications. Composites of multiple swarms can produce hybrid spatiotemporal patterns, which compared to single swarming systems, are relatively unexplored. In this work, we develop a framework for studying the collision of counter-moving swarms, each with its own preferred, stable velocity before collision. We show that redirection of such swarms after collision occurs when a stable velocity synchronized state of the multi-swarm composite exists. Using a rigid-body approximation, we are able to extract how scatter-redirection transitions scale with swarm parameters in a variety of scenarios from reciprocal and non-reciprocal systems to symmetric and antagonistic parameter values. Our results compare well to simulations of both particle modeled agents and wheeled robots. |
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| spellingShingle | Redirecting counter-moving swarms through collision Hindes, Jason Prasad, Chinthan B. McGuire, Loy Schwartz, Ira B. Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Physics and Society Multi-swarm systems, where two or more swarms of mobile agents occupy the same region of space with different parameters and goals, occur in a variety of biological, engineering, and defense applications. Composites of multiple swarms can produce hybrid spatiotemporal patterns, which compared to single swarming systems, are relatively unexplored. In this work, we develop a framework for studying the collision of counter-moving swarms, each with its own preferred, stable velocity before collision. We show that redirection of such swarms after collision occurs when a stable velocity synchronized state of the multi-swarm composite exists. Using a rigid-body approximation, we are able to extract how scatter-redirection transitions scale with swarm parameters in a variety of scenarios from reciprocal and non-reciprocal systems to symmetric and antagonistic parameter values. Our results compare well to simulations of both particle modeled agents and wheeled robots. |
| title | Redirecting counter-moving swarms through collision |
| topic | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12002 |