TY - JOUR T1 - A model of collective behavior based purely on vision JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/589663 SP - 589663 AU - Renaud Bastien AU - Pawel Romanczuk Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/03/28/589663.abstract N2 - Classical models of collective behavior often take a “birds-eye perspective,” assuming that individuals have access to social information that is not directly available (e.g., the behavior of individuals outside of their field of view). Despite the explanatory success of those models, it is now thought that a better understanding needs to incorporate of the perception of the individual, i.e. how internal and external information are acquired and processed. In particular, vision has appeared to be a central feature to gather external information and influence the collective organization of the group. Here we show that a vision based model of collective behavior is sufficient to generate organized collective behavior in the absence of spatial representation and collision. Our work suggests a novel approach for development of purely vision-based autonomous swarm robotic systems, and formulates a mathematical framework for exploration of perception-based interactions and how they differ from physical ones. Thus, it is of broader relevance for self-organization in complex systems, neuroscience, behavioral sciences and engineering. ER -