Effects of Shape of Closed Space on Agent Motion

Abstract:

The moving of a population of agents in a closed rectangular cell is emulated by adding the bouncing of the agents at boundaries and the remembering of end boundaries to a basic model, in which only the alignment rule is used. The agents herd in only a few clusters, which move asymmetrically along the long side of the cell. The effects of the end-boundary information holding time , noise strength and number of agents on the formation and turning of the cluster are investigated. The results show that, the formation time of the cluster decreases with , but increases with and ; the turning time of the cluster slightly increases with and , but nearly does not change with .

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 651-653)
• Pages: 2149-2153
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.651-653.2149
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Zhen Zhen Liu*, Xing Yuan Wang, Mo Gei Wang
• Keywords: Asymmetric Motion, Closed space, Flock, Information Transmitting, Shape

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