We have produced computational simulations of multi-agent systems in which wolf agents
chase prey agents. We show that two simple decentralized rules controlling the movement of …

Presents a feedback control law for coordinating motions of multiple holonomic mobile
robots to capture/enclose a target by forming troop formations. This motion coordination is a …

In this article, we analyze the behavior of a group of robots involved in an object retrieval
task. The robots' control system is inspired by a model of ants' foraging. This model …

The participation of individual African lions, Panthera leo, during 64 communal hunts of four
prey species was measured to quantify the extent to which lions cooperate and the factors …

Both human and nonhuman primates use imperative pointing to request a desired object
from another individual. Gaze alternation often accompanies such pointing gestures, and in …

We present a biologically inspired approach to the dynamic assignment and reassignment
of a homogeneous swarm of robots to multiple locations, which is relevant to applications …

Bird flocks under predation demonstrate complex patterns of collective escape. These
patterns may emerge by self-organization from local interactions among group-members …

Wolves, Canis lupus, routinely live in large packs that include unrelated individuals and
mature offspring. Studies show that individual wolves that live in large packs suffer reduced …

Group-living animals are often faced with choosing between one or more alternative
resource sites. A central question in such collective decision making includes determining …

This paper is a survey of research on autonomous search strategies which originate in
engineering and biology. Our motivation is to identify methods of search in an essentially …