Cooperative Physics of Fly Swarms: An Emergent Behavior.

Abstract

We have simulated the behavior of several artificial flies, interacting visually with each other. Each fly is described by a simple tracking system (Poggio and Reichardt, 1973; Land and Collett, 1974) which summarizes behavioral experiments in which individual flies fixate a target. Our main finding is that the interaction of theses implemodules gives rise to a variety of relatively complex behaviors. In particular, we observe a swarm-like behavior of a group of many artificial flies for certain reasonable ranges of our tracking system parameters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA295622

Entities

People

  • M. Poggio
  • T. Poggio

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Circular Orbits
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Free Flight
  • Intellectual Property
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Simulations

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  • Computer Vision.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.