Perception of motion salience shapes the emergence of collective motions

Yandong Xiao (), Xiaokang Lei, Zhicheng Zheng, Yalun Xiang, Yang-Yu Liu and Xingguang Peng ()
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Yandong Xiao: National University of Defense Technology
Xiaokang Lei: Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
Zhicheng Zheng: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Yalun Xiang: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Yang-Yu Liu: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Xingguang Peng: Northwestern Polytechnical University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract Despite the profound implications of self-organization in animal groups for collective behaviors, understanding the fundamental principles and applying them to swarm robotics remains incomplete. Here we propose a heuristic measure of perception of motion salience (MS) to quantify relative motion changes of neighbors from first-person view. Leveraging three large bird-flocking datasets, we explore how this perception of MS relates to the structure of leader-follower (LF) relations, and further perform an individual-level correlation analysis between past perception of MS and future change rate of velocity consensus. We observe prevalence of the positive correlations in real flocks, which demonstrates that individuals will accelerate the convergence of velocity with neighbors who have higher MS. This empirical finding motivates us to introduce the concept of adaptive MS-based (AMS) interaction in swarm model. Finally, we implement AMS in a swarm of ~102 miniature robots. Swarm experiments show the significant advantage of AMS in enhancing self-organization of the swarm for smooth evacuations from confined environments.

Date: 2024
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