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Linear Nearest Neighbor Flocks With All Distinct Agents, Robert G. Lyons
Linear Nearest Neighbor Flocks With All Distinct Agents, Robert G. Lyons
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This dissertation analyzes the global dynamics of 1-dimensional agent arrays with nearest neighbor linear couplings. The equations of motion are second order linear ODE's with constant coefficients. The novel part of this research is that the couplings are different for each agent. We allow the forces to depend on the relative position and relative velocity (damping terms) of the agents, and the coupling magnitudes differ for each agent. Further, we do not assume that the forces are "Newtonian'" (i.e., the force due to A on B equals minus the force of B on A) as this assumption does not apply …