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Figure 5.16 Organization of the compartmental model: A chain of linked zones,
which represent concentric ring-shaped or disc-shaped zones in the robot arena.
Inside of each compartment, robots can switch from the free-driving state to the
aggregated (standing) state and vice versa. Picture redrawn. (From Hamann, H.
et al., Spatial macroscopic models of a bio-inspired robotic swarm algorithm,
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