Eliseo Ferrante, Ali Emre Turgut, Marco Dorigo, Cristián Huepe
We introduce a simple model of self-propelled agents connected by linear springs, with no explicit alignment rules. Below a critical noise level, the agents self-organize into a collectively translating or rotating group. We derive analytical stability conditions for the translating state in an elastic sheet approximation. We propose an elasticity-based mechanism that drives convergence to collective motion by cascading self-propulsion energy towards lower-energy modes. Given its simplicity and ubiquity, such mechanism could play a relevant role in various biological and robotic swarms.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2620
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