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Swarming behaviour of birds when flying or foraging
Flocking is the behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. Sheep and goats also exhibit flocking behavior. Flocking by birds and mammals is similar to schooling in fish and these are often studied together. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FlockingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flocking Motion of Multi-UAV Systems: Learn From a Digital TwinInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Report of the Inter-departmental committee on the Rag flock actsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and TheoryCited 4,470 times
- Go sideways: BoidsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Collective animal behaviorA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of flock
Noun The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
Noun A material textured in this way, such as the artificial snow of a Christmas tree.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory
Flocks, herds, and schools: A quantitative theory of flocking
Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks
On the advantages of flocking
Flocking of Multi-Agents With a Virtual Leader
Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments
From particle to kinetic and hydrodynamic descriptions of flocking
A simple proof of the Cucker-Smale flocking dynamics and mean-field limit
🆕 Influential since 2022
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flocking Motion of Multi-UAV Systems: Learn From a Digital Twin
Deep Reinforcement Learning of Collision-Free Flocking Policies for Multiple Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Local Situation Maps
Collision-Avoiding Flocking With Multiple Fixed-Wing UAVs in Obstacle-Cluttered Environments: A Task-Specific Curriculum- Based MADRL Approach
Flocking without Alignment Interactions in Attractive Active Brownian Particles
Path-Guided Model-Free Flocking Control of Unmanned Surface Vehicles Based on Concurrent Learning Extended State Observers
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Report of the Inter-departmental committee on the Rag flock actsGreat Britain. Inter-Departmental Committee on the Rag Flock Acts · 1946
- 📕AATCC flock handbookAmerican Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Flock Technology Committee · 1972
- 📕Fizicheskie osnovy tekhnologii ėlektroflokirovanii͡a︡E. N. Bershev · 1984
- 📕Khimicheskai͡a︡ podgotovka vorsa v ėlektroflokirovaniiV. V. Dmitriev · 1986
- 📕Flock technologyAmerican Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Flock Technology Committee · 1972
- 📕Flock technologyAmerican Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Flock Technology Committee · 1974
- 📕Flocks ancestry, genealogy and history of nine generations of Flocks in the U.S.A. and Canada.Flock, Jacob Divers, 1847-1935. · 1938
- 📕Performance recorded flocks. · 1983
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