A NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
KNOWLEDGE AND DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE PROJECT

COORDINATED MOTION

 OF

NATURAL AND MAN-MADE GROUPS

The aims of this project are to understand how various animal groups such as fish schools and bird flocks coordinate their collective motions and how groups of mobile autonomous agents or vehicles might use these biological principles to collectively perform useful tasks such as data gathering, search and rescue, etc. in a safe, cooperative, and coordinated manner.

                                            A Fish Whorl                                                                      The Grouper

    P. N. Belhumeur                   R. W. Brockett                   N. E. Leonard                    J. K. Parrish and D Grünbaum                 A. S. Morse
                                                                                                                                                                                             

  Columbia University             Harvard University            Princeton University                     University of Washington                 Yale University