Anyone who has moved furniture together with friends will appreciate that cooperative
transport requires some non-trivial communication. Yet ants are adept at collectively moving …

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 …

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

Coordination among social animals requires rapid and efficient transfer of information
among individuals, which may depend crucially on the underlying structure of the …

In this paper, we derive an algorithm for enabling a single robotic unmanned aerial vehicle
to herd a flock of birds away from a designated volume of space, such as the air space …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …

Predation is thought to shape the macroscopic properties of animal groups, making moving
groups more cohesive and coordinated. Precisely how predation has shaped individuals' …

Herding of sheep by dogs is a powerful example of one individual causing many unwilling
individuals to move in the same direction. Similar phenomena are central to crowd control …

Among the many fascinating examples of collective behavior exhibited by animal groups,
some species are known to alternate slow group dispersion in space with rapid aggregation …

Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not
just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same direction and at the same …