This repository contains Matlab code for a multi-agent swarm simulation that has both a flock and torus attractor that result from the same model parameters.
The code in swarm_simulation.m is the base model used in the papers Supporting human interaction with robust robot swarms, Human-swarm interactions based on managing attractors, and Limited bandwidth recognition of collective behaviors in bio-inspired swarms.
The code in StakeholderSwitching.m is for exploring how to change the collective behavior of a swarm by influencing only a small subset of the members of the swarm. This code was used to generate the results for the stakeholder experiments in the paper Human-swarm interactions based on managing attractors.
If you find this code useful please consider citing the following:
@inproceedings{brown2014human,
title={Human-swarm interactions based on managing attractors},
author={Brown, Daniel S and Kerman, Sean C and Goodrich, Michael A},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction},
pages={90--97},
year={2014},
organization={ACM}
}
@inproceedings{brown2014limited,
title={Limited bandwidth recognition of collective behaviors in bio-inspired swarms},
author={Brown, Daniel S and Goodrich, Michael A},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems},
pages={405--412},
year={2014},
organization={International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}
}