Bird flocks as condensed matter

A Cavagna, I Giardina - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2014 - annualreviews.org
Flocking is a paradigmatic case of self-organized collective behavior in biology and a living
example of active matter. Several models and theories have been developed in recent years …

Sensory collectives in natural systems

HJ Williams, VH Sridhar, E Hurme, GEC Gall… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape
fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely …

Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

E Soria, F Schiano, D Floreano - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021 - nature.com
Classical models of aerial swarms often describe global coordinated motion as the
combination of local interactions that happen at the individual level. Mathematically, these …

Multi-target tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle swarms using deep reinforcement learning

W Zhou, Z Liu, J Li, X Xu, L Shen - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has proved its great potential in multi-
agent cooperation. However, how to apply DRL to multi-target tracking (MTT) problem for …

[BOOK][B] Passivity-based control and estimation in networked robotics

T Hatanaka, N Chopra, M Fujita, MW Spong - 2015 - Springer
Passivity is an input–output property of dynamical systems. The concept generalizes
physical systems that cannot store more energy than the energy supplied from outside the …

The role of hydrodynamics in collective motions of fish schools and bioinspired underwater robots

H Ko, G Lauder, R Nagpal - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collective behaviour defines the lives of many animal species on the Earth. Underwater
swarms span several orders of magnitude in size, from coral larvae and krill to tunas and …

Scale-free correlations and potential criticality in weakly ordered populations of brain cancer cells

KB Wood, A Comba, S Motsch, TS Grigera… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Collective behavior spans several orders of magnitude of biological organization, from cell
colonies to flocks of birds. We used time-resolved tracking of individual glioblastoma cells to …

[BOOK][B] The cortex and the critical point: understanding the power of emergence

JM Beggs - 2022 - books.google.com
How the cerebral cortex operates near a critical phase transition point for optimum
performance. Individual neurons have limited computational powers, but when they work …

Bio-inspired compact swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles without communication and external localization

P Petráček, V Walter, T Báča… - Bioinspiration & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This article presents a unique framework for deploying decentralized and
infrastructureindependent swarms of homogeneous aerial vehicles in the real world without …

Collective intelligence as a public good

NE Leonard, SA Levin - Collective Intelligence, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We discuss measures of collective intelligence in evolved and designed self-organizing
ensembles, defining collective intelligence in terms of the benefits to be gained through the …