Title
Consensus of flocks under M-nearest-neighbor rules.
Abstract
This paper investigates a class of flocks with an M-nearest-neighbor rule, where each agent’s neighbors are determined according to M nearest agents with M being a given integer, rather than all the agents within a fixed metric distance as in the well-known Vicsek’s model. Such a neighbor rule has been validated by biologists through experiments and the authors will prove that, similar to the Vicsek’s model, such a new neighbor rule can also achieve consensus under some conditions imposed only on the system’s speed and the number M, n, without resorting to any priori connectivity assumptions on the trajectory of the system. In particular, the authors will prove that if the number M is proportional to the population size n, then for any speed v, the system will achieve consensus with large probability if the population size is large enough.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11424-015-3048-x
J. Systems Science & Complexity
Keywords
Field
DocType
Consensus, multi-agent systems, M-nearest neighbor, random geometric graph, topological distance
Integer,k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Discrete mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Metric (mathematics),Multi-agent system,Population size,Random geometric graph,Mathematics,Trajectory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
1
1559-7067
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen Chen198.26
Ge Chen2227.36
L. Guo336340.75