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Takeshi Kawai¹, Yukio Pegio Gunji¹

¹Department of Intermedia, Art and Science, School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan.

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Summary

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Soldier crabs exhibit Lévy walk behavior, a power law distribution, when interacting with directed robot crab movement. This suggests that combining random and directed movement can create complex emergent behaviors in swarms.

Keywords:

Lévy walk Metaheuristics Power distribution Self-organization Swarm

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Area of Science:

Collective behavior
Animal swarming
Complex systems

Background:

Metaheuristic algorithms use agent interactions to find solutions.
Self-organized criticality and power law distributions arise from interplay between individual freedom and group constraints.
Soldier crab swarms display both individual independence and collective movement.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if the interplay between individual soldier crab behavior and group movement generates a power law distribution.
To model emergent swarm behavior using robotic agents.

Main Methods:

An experiment was designed using soldier crabs and directed robot crab movement.
Observed soldier crab responses to the directed motion of robot crabs.
Analyzed the movement patterns of soldier crabs for characteristics of power law distributions.

Main Results:

The interaction between soldier crabs and robot crabs resulted in a Lévy walk.
This Lévy walk is characterized by a power law distribution of step length.
The observed movement pattern mirrors that of real soldier crab swarms.

Conclusions:

Soldier crabs are attracted to the directed motion of robots, influencing their movement patterns.
A Lévy walk, characterized by a power law distribution, can emerge from combining random and ballistic movements.
This study provides insights into the mechanisms underlying self-organized criticality in biological swarms.