Autonomous Agents and Emergent Behaviour
“Burds”
Simulation
By Robyn Backhouse
Introduction
This simulation implements the boids
steering rules of Craig Reynolds
- separation (avoid neighbours), alignment (average heading), and
cohesion (keep close to center of mass). These simulations also include
obstacle, predators avoidance and the possibility to follow a leader.
The 3 steering rules as those for obstacle and predator avoidance can
be activated or disactivated and the corresponding effect observed in
the movies below.
Movies
Msc
Thesis
Feb 2009