Perfect swarm

• Autores: Michael Brooks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2954, 2014, págs. 46-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brooks examines how the collective intelligence of swarming animals could help design robots, heal wounds and even understand consciousness. In an attempt to understand how locust swarms march together across an area of land, Iain Couzin and his colleagues had built a model which represented the insects as a collection of particles, rather like the atoms in a gas. To coordinate movement and prevent collisions, each particle" simply had to adjust Its speed and direction in response to the speed, proximity and direction of its neighbors.