seminar: On flocking and consensus problems
speaker: Michele Gianfelice (Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università della Calabria)abstract: The analysis of a network of a large number of coordinated agents is a sub discipline of control theory which has seen a rapid development during the last decade. We speak about consensus problem when the agents represent the units of a system (say a computer network) interacting through a given protocol (interaction rule) in order to accomplish a given task that results in all units reaching the same state (agreement). When the agents are self-propelled particles subject to a given communication rule, the emergence of phase space patterns persistent in time described by a large connected cluster of coherently moving particles is called flocking or swarming behaviour. It is clear by the definition of flocking that for the system to exhibit such a collective behaviour the agents must reach consensus in the velocities on the average, therefore these two problems are linked although defined by different systems of equations. In this talk I will introduce the most common coordinated agent based models and present some results about the reaching of consensus as well as flocking behaviour.
timetable:
Tue 29 May, 14:45 - 16:00, Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
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