The growing interest in studying social behaviours of swarming fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, has heightened the need for developing tools that provide quantitative motion data. To achieve such a goal, multi-camera three-dimensional tracking technology is the key experimental gateway. We have developed a novel tracking system for tracking hundreds of fruit flies flying in a confined cubic flight arena. In addition to the proposed tracking algorithm, this work offers additional contributions in three aspects: body detection, orientation estimation, and data validation. To demonstrate the opportunities that the proposed system offers for generating high-throughput quantitative motion data, we conducted experiments on five experimental configurations. We also performed quantitative analysis on the kinematics and the spatial structure and the motion patterns of fruit fly swarms. We found that there exists an asymptotic distance between fruit flies in swarms as the population density increases. Further, we discovered the evidence for repulsive response when the distance between fruit flies approached the asymptotic distance. Overall, the proposed tracking system presents a powerful method for studying flight behaviours of fruit flies in a three-dimensional environment.
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In order to confirm whether there exists some biological forces or social forces among fruit fly swarms, we created a simulation system. The system simulated physical random particles (a.k.a Brownian motion in which social forces are absent) moving in a confined volume. The virtual volume was equal to the volume of the flight arena. The number of particles was equal to the number of fruit flies at each moment of each configuration. At the initial step, random particles were uniformly distributed in the volume. Each simulation ran on 3000 steps. We also evaluated the NND distribution of each simulation. Fig 7b shows the comparison between the PDF of NND distribution of T03 and that of the correspondent simulation. The NNDs should follow a Poisson distribution for random particles. But the Poisson distribution fitting the distribution of the simulation compares poorly with that of fruit flies. The distribution of fruit flies obviously skews to the left. The difference between it and that of random particles is significant (P
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There is a whole raft of balance changes and bug fixes in this patch as well, which can be studied via this patch note post over on r/starcitizen. If you are on the PTU, you can download patch 2.6 now and begin testing, so the general release of this update should not be too far off. You can check out the developers over at Cloud Imperium Games playing through some of patch 2.6 in the video above.
The attribute method indicates the task assignment method for thethreads. Currently ARGoS offers two methods: balance_quantity andbalance_length. balance_quantity is the default and it divides thenumber tasks evenly among the threads. This assignment isprecalculated before the execution of the experiment, and it isrecalculated only when robots are added or removed from theexperiment. This method gives best results when the swarm to simulateis homogeneous. In the second assignment method, balance_length, athread fetches a new task from the dispatcher every time the thread isidle. This method allows for better intertwining of long and shorttasks and gives best results when the swarm is heterogeneous.
In order to validate the results obtained with simulation and the ODE model, we run further tests with physical robots. For these tests, we use kilobots which are small-sized and low-cost robots that communicate using infrared transceivers positioned beneath the robot body (Rubenstein et al., 2012) (see Fig. 6a). We run two sets of experiments: set I, in which the voting system is implemented with the voter model, and set II in which it is implemented with the majority model. In set I, with swarm size \(N=20\), the kilobots operate in a rectangular arena of \(80 \times 35\, \hbox cm^2\), with a relative density of 0.007 robot/cm\(^2\) (see Fig. 6b). In set II, with swarm size \(N=40\), the kilobots operate in a larger rectangular arena of \(85 \times 50\,\textcm^2\), with a relative density of 0.009 robot/cm\(^2\). In both set I and set II, the arena is divided into 3 zones (see Fig. 6b). The central zone which measures \(37 \times 35\,\textcm^2\) in set I, and \(37 \times 50\,\,\hbox cm^2\) in set II, represents the nest. The lateral zones, positioned on the left and on the right of the nest, correspond to exploration sites associated with quality \(\rho _\mathrmA\) and \(\rho _\mathrmB\), respectively. The robots are controlled by the same finite state machine illustrated above (see also Fig. 1). Each run lasts 20 min with the kilobots pseudo-randomly placed in the nest. All robots are initialised in exploration state. It is imposed that at run start, both options are chosen by half of the swarm. Robots in state \(E_\mathrmA\) move to option A, while those in state \(E_\mathrmB\) move to option B. The movement toward and away from the respective option (A or B), is controlled by a light source positioned on the right side of the arena. This light works as a landmark with respect to which the robots develop a phototactic or an anti-phototactic response depending on their state. Robots in state \(E_\mathrmA\) perform phototaxis to reach site A; robots in state \(E_\mathrmB\) perform antiphototaxis to reach site B. On entering the sites, each kilobot assesses the site quality by sensing an infra-red signal emitted from an Arduino based platform placed beneath the transparent arena surface, in correspondence of each site. Each Arduino based platform continuously emit signals with message containing the site type (i.e., A or B) and the quality associated with the site (i.e., the value of \(\rho _\mathrmA\) or \(\rho _\mathrmB\)). The robots remain in the exploration state for a time sampled from an exponential distribution with a rate equal to roughly 1/4.76 \(s^-1\).
Contagion (Green): Huge variety of weapons with built in auto targeting, outstanding built in kinetic resistance, passive health regeneration, extremely fast, extremely light weight, extensive usage of cloning modules, and auto revival modules makes this faction an absolute nightmare for a new player to fight. However, when their swarms grow huge and all hope is lost they do have a big weakness which can be exploited. As of patch 1.9.1 their cloned ships behave like drones meaning they can be captured with a drone capture system. Extremely dangerous otherwise.
ARK: Survival Evolved update 2.26 released on PS4 and Xbox late last night, and it brings several huge improvements to the game including a Mek nerf, dozens of map fixes and bug resolutions. It's a fairly large download, but, as the patch notes below illustrate, there's a solid amount to dig into. The details arrive courtesy of a Studio Wildcard forum post.
Before we begin work on our next edition we have one final Southlands release which is essentially a third patch but we are uploading it as a complete download to make installation easier for new players. While there is not a lot of new content compared to other releases this is probably the most comprehensive bug fixing patch we have had and many long term bugs, like the face corruption bug, have been tackled.
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