Collective motion and oscillator synchronization
Rodolphe Sepulchre, Derek Paley and Naomi Leonard
To appear in Proceedings of the 2003 Block Island Workshop on
Cooperative Control, eds. V.J. Kumar, N.E. Leonard, A.S. Morse,
Springer-Verlag.
This paper studies connections between phase models of coupled
oscillators and kinematic models of groups of self-propelled
particles. These connections are exploited in the analysis and
design of feedback control laws for the individuals that stabilize
collective motions for the group.