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The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior
Published on: January 19, 2019
Promoting collective motion of self-propelled agents by distance-based influence
Han-Xin Yang1, Tao Zhou2, Liang Huang3
1Department of Physics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China.
Abstract:
We propose a dynamic model for a system consisting of self-propelled agents in which the influence of an agent on another agent is weighted by geographical distance. A parameter α is introduced to adjust the influence: The smaller value of α means that the closer neighbors have a stronger influence on the moving direction. We find that there exists an optimal value of α leading to the highest degree of direction consensus. The value of optimal α increases as the system size increases, while it decreases as the absolute velocity, the sensing radius, and the noise amplitude increase.
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