Particle computation: Designing worlds to control robot swarms with only global signals

Micro- and nanorobots are often controlled by global input signals, such as an electromagnetic or gravitational field. These fields move each robot maximally until it hits a stationary obstacle or another stationary robot. This paper investigates 2D motion-planning complexity for large swarms of sim...

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Main Authors: Becker, Aaron (Author), Demaine, Erik D. (Contributor), Fekete, Sandor P. (Author), McLurkin, James (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-11-23T17:27:58Z.
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