Research updates
Selected research
Single Bridge Formation in Self-Organizing Particle Systems
Shows how local directional and neighbor preferences can produce a coordinated global structure: a single bridge assembled by otherwise uncoordinated particles.
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Asynchronous Deterministic Leader Election in Three-Dimensional Programmable Matter
Formalizes programmable matter in realistic three-dimensional space and gives a deterministic leader-election algorithm that remains correct under unfair asynchronous scheduling.
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A Programmable Microrobotic Design for the Spontaneous Tracing of Isochemical Contours in the Environment
Models microrobots that combine constant propulsion, one chemical sensor, and simple steering to trace isochemical contours and produce coordinated trajectories.
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Fire ant pontoon bridge: a self-assembled dynamic functional structure
Combines experiments with thousands of fire ants and modeling to examine how local behavior assembles a dynamic floating bridge, with lessons for adaptive robot swarms.
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Navigation Mesh for Missing Persons Search
Introduces a mobile-web proof of concept that automatically generates personalized geospatial search environments as an alternative to manually mapped grids.
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Stationary and Deterministic Leader Election in Self-organizing Particle Systems
Presents the first deterministic, movement-free leader-election protocol for non-simply-connected amoebot systems whose anonymous particles share common chirality.
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