Artificial Physics, Swarm Engineering, and the Hamiltonian Method
Sanza Kazadi, R. Lee, Julie Anne Lee · 2007
This paper describes the application of a swarm engineering methodology known as the Hamiltonian method of swarm design to the artificial physics problem. We demonstrate how to use this methodology to create swarms of predefined global properties by applying it to the basic artificial physics problem which creates locally hexagonal grids of agents, but fails to generate global hexagons. A condition for global hexagonal structure is derived, and two methods are described which accomplish this goal. Neither method requires global information.