Three-Dimensional agent-based model of fish collective behaviour using topological interaction

This paper presents a novel 3D agent-based model of fish collective behaviour based on topological interaction. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first 3D model that implements topological interaction. Despite the fact that the topological interaction was proposed based on the observation of collective behaviour of bird flock [1], simulations show that our model also displays realistic collective patterns of fish school as seen in nature. We also observe the automatic transition of different collective patterns, which is a natural phenomenon but failed to show in many previous agent-based fish school models. Keywords-agent-based modelling; fish school; collective behaviour; swarm; topological interaction