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SUBMITTER: Strombom D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4191104 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20141101 100
Herding of sheep by dogs is a powerful example of one individual causing many unwilling individuals to move in the same direction. Similar phenomena are central to crowd control, cleaning the environment and other engineering problems. Despite single dogs solving this 'shepherding problem' every day, it remains unknown which algorithm they employ or whether a general algorithm exists for shepherding. Here, we demonstrate such an algorithm, based on adaptive switching between collecting the agent ...[more]