The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics AROB 5th'00


 From Life to Robotics: Social Robots


S. Reimann & A. Mansour
Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems & BMC Research Center
 German National Research Center for  & The Institute of Physical and
Information Technology {\bf GMD} & Chemical Research ({\bf RIKEN})
 Birlinghoven, Germany. & Nagoya, 463-003, JAPAN


 Abstract

The formation of groups is of essential importance in biology. Aggregation
is based on a
simple dynamical model for the motion of each individual. It is shown that
a {\em swarm}
is formed within a short time span and is stable under perturbations.

Keywords:  Grouping behavior, stochastic control.