Predictive protocol of flocks with small-world connection pattern

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dc.creatorZhang, Hai-Tao
dc.creatorChen, Michael Z. Q.
dc.creatorZhou, Tao
dc.date2007-09-04
dc.date2008-07-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:36:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:36:40Z
dc.descriptionBy introducing a predictive mechanism with small-world connections, we propose a new motion protocol for self-driven flocks. The small-world connections are implemented by randomly adding long-range interactions from the leader to a few distant agents, namely pseudo-leaders. The leader can directly affect the pseudo-leaders, thereby influencing all the other agents through them efficiently. Moreover, these pseudo-leaders are able to predict the leader's motion several steps ahead and use this information in decision making towards coherent flocking with more stable formation. It is shown that drastic improvement can be achieved in terms of both the consensus performance and the communication cost. From the industrial engineering point of view, the current protocol allows for a significant improvement in the cohesion and rigidity of the formation at a fairly low cost of adding a few long-range links embedded with predictive capabilities. Significantly, this work uncovers an important feature of flocks that predictive capability and long-range links can compensate for the insufficiency of each other. These conclusions are valid for both the attractive/repulsive swarm model and the Vicsek model.
dc.description10 pages, 12 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0380
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0380
dc.identifierPhysical Review E, vol. 79, 016113, 2009.
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.016113
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/218171
dc.subjectData Analysis, Statistics and Probability
dc.titlePredictive protocol of flocks with small-world connection pattern
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