Rhythmic behavior of social insects from single to multibody
Rhythmic behavior of social insects from single to multibody
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DOI：
10.1016/j.robot.2011.06.016
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Tsuji, Kazuki
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作者：
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu;Yuki, Mai;Tsuji, Kazuki
要揭示组织良好的社会行为的演化，需要理解集体行为产生的机制。一个组织良好的群体可以通过两种可能的机制产生，即中央控制和分布式控制。在第二种情况下，可互换组件之间的局部交互作用在集体行为的底部起作用。我们专注于单个蚂蚁的简单行为，并分析了一对蚂蚁之间的相互作用。在一个实验装置中，我们把工蜂放在一个没有巢、食物和蜂王的半球中，并记录它们的轨迹。获得了每只蚂蚁速度的时间模式。从这种自下而上的方法，我们发现一个工人和一对工人的特征行为如下：（1）每个人的活动有一个节奏的组成部分。(2)一对个体之间的相互作用导致两种类型的耦合，即反相耦合和同相耦合。这对工蚁之间的直接身体接触可能会导致个体蚂蚁节律成分的相移。我们还建立了一个简单的模型，基于耦合振子对整个群体的行为的理解。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Revealing the evolution of well-organized social behavior requires understanding a mechanism by which collective behavior is produced. A well-organized group may be produced by two possible mechanisms, namely, a central control and a distributed control. In the second case, local interactions between interchangeable components function at the bottom of the collective behavior. We focused on a simple behavior of an individual ant and analyzed the interactions between a pair of ants. In an experimental set-up, we placed the workers in a hemisphere without a nest, food, and a queen, and recorded their trajectories. The temporal pattern of velocity of each ant was obtained. From this bottom-up approach, we found the characteristic behavior of a single worker and a pair of workers as follows: (1) Activity of each individual has a rhythmic component. (2) Interactions between a pair of individuals result in two types of coupling, namely the anti-phase and the in-phase coupling. The direct physical contacts between the pair of workers might cause a phase shift of the rhythmic components in individual ants. We also build up a simple model based on the coupled oscillators toward the understanding of the whole colony behavior. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.