Mechanism for the co-existence of diversity and coherence in an animal group and its application to the sense-computing

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25280091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Soft computing
• Research Institution: Waseda University (2014-2015); Kobe University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Yukio Gunji 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (40192570)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Shirakawa Tomohiro 防衛大学校, 電気情報学群, 助教 (60582905) ; Haruna Taichi 神戸大学, 理学研究科, 助教 (20518659) ; Moriyama Toru 信州大学, 繊維学部, 助教 (20325898)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 群れ / 内部予期 / 多様性 / マルチエージェント / インテリジェンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We showed that the interactions among animal individuals could result not from a simple sensor-motor coupling but from one-to-many type mapping and its degeneration influenced by multiple modalities of senses. It is concluded that the interactions revealed intrinsic anticipation and negotiations which could carry diversity of individual behaviors contributing to the robust and united wholeness. Our findings can be generalized not only in a broad taxa of animals including swarms of crustaceans, social animals and fish schools but in the united body of human being which could give rise to consciousness.

Free Research Field

理論生命科学