Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish

Liang Li; Máté Nagy; Jacob M. Graving; Joseph Bak-Coleman; Guangming Xie; Iain D. Couzin

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19086-0

Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish

Liang Li,
Máté Nagy,
Jacob M. Graving,
Joseph Bak-Coleman,
Guangming Xie,
Iain D. Couzin

Affiliations

Liang Li: Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Máté Nagy: Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Jacob M. Graving: Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Joseph Bak-Coleman: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Guangming Xie: State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, and Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab, College of Engineering, Peking University
Iain D. Couzin: Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19086-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Whether and how fish might benefit from swimming in schools is an ongoing intriguing debate. Li et al. conduct experiments with biomimetic robots and also with real fish to reveal a new behavioural strategy by which followers can exploit the vortices shed by a near neighbour.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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