Active Motion and Interaction in Swarms of Brownian Agents

Frank Schweitzer

ETH-Zentrum, CH - 8092 Zurich

Brownian agents denote a particular class of agents with the ability to take-up energy from the environment, to store it in an internal depot and to use it for different actions. In a biological context, this energy may be used for active, self-propelled motion and for collective interaction with other agents, such as swarming. In the talk the energetic conditions for active motion are discussed and different types of local and global couplings between the agents are investigated. Further a possible application to the swarming behavior of Daphnia is discussed.