Accession Number:

ADA295622

Title:

Cooperative Physics of Fly Swarms: An Emergent Behavior.

Descriptive Note:

Memorandum rept.,

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Poggio, M.
• Poggio, T.

Report Date:

1994-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

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.

Descriptors:

• *MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• *COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• *FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS
• *WINGED INSECTS
• EQUATIONS OF MOTION
• INTERACTIONS
• PARAMETERS
• TRACKING
• THESES
• DEGREES OF FREEDOM
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• BEHAVIOR
• FREE FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES

Subject Categories:

• Biology
• Operations Research
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE