title: Juggling motion in a system of motile coupled oscillators.
abstract: A particular dynamic steady state emerging in the swarm oscillator model--a system of interacting motile elements with an internal degree of freedom--is presented. In the state, elements form a rotating triangle whose corners appear to catch and throw elements. This motion is referred to as "juggling motion" in this paper. How this motion is maintained is studied theoretically. In particular, the five-element system, the minimum system that exhibits the motion, is investigated. With the help of the analysis of the two-element system, several factors essential to maintaining this motion are obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. miwasa@r.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masatomo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwasa
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D007700:Kinetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion