  Drawing inspiration from flight behavior in biological settings (e.g.
territorial battles in dragonflies, and flocking in starlings), this paper
demonstrates two strategies for coverage and flocking. Using earlier
theoretical studies on mutual motion camouflage, an appropriate steering
control law for area coverage has been implemented in a laboratory test-bed
equipped with wheeled mobile robots and a Vicon high speed motion capture
system. The same test-bed is also used to demonstrate another strategy (based
on local information), termed topological velocity alignment, which serves to
make agents move in the same direction. The present work illustrates the
applicability of biological inspiration in the design of multi-agent robotic
collectives.
