Don't push me! Collision-avoiding swarms

  • Authors:
  • T. M. Blackwell;P. Bentley

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK;Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK

  • Venue:
  • CEC '02 Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation on 2002. CEC '02. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper examines a particle swarm algorithm which has been applied to the generation of interactive, improvised music. An important feature of this algorithm is a balance between particle attraction to the centre of mass and repulsive, collision avoiding forces. These forces are not present in the classic particle swarm optimisation algorithms. A number of experiments illuminate the nature of these new forces and it is suggested that the algorithm may have applications to dynamic optimisation problems.