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Inanimate to Animate: Robotic Insights into Biological Collective Behaviors

INVITED · MAR-W54 · ID: 2763761

Presentations

  • Active elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials

    ORAL · Invited

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    Presenters

    • Jack Binysh

      University of Amsterdam

    Authors

    • Jack Binysh

      University of Amsterdam

    • Corentin Coulais

      University of Amsterdam

    • Jonas Veenstra

      University of Amsterdam

    • Anton Souslov

      Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge

    • Guido Christian Baardink

      University of Bath

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  • Emergent Swarm States and Evolutionary Dynamics in Bacteria-Inspired Robot Swarms

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: [A] Wang, G.*, Phan, T. V.*, Li, S., Wombacher, M., Qu, J., Peng, Y., Chen, G., Goldman, D. I., Levin, S., Austin, R. H., and Liu, L., Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 108002 (2021). [*co-first authors]<br>https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.108002<br><br>[B] Wang, G.*, Phan, T. V.*, Li, S., Wang, J., Peng, Y., Chen, G., Goldman, D. I., Levin, S. A., Pienta, K., Amend, S., Austin, R. H., and Liu, L., Robots as Models of Evolving Systems, PNAS, 119(12), e2120019119 (2022). [*co-first authors]<br>https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120019119<br><br>[C] Phan, T. V.*, Wang, G.*, Liu, L., and Austin, R. H., Bootstrapped Motion of an Agent on an Adaptive Resource Landscape, Symmetry, 13, 225 (2021). [*co-first authors]<br>https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/2/225

    Presenters

    • Trung Phan

      Johns Hopkins University

    Authors

    • Trung Phan

      Johns Hopkins University

    • Gao Wang

      Chongqing University, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    • Shengkai Li

      Princeton University

    • Daniel I Goldman

      Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech

    • Simon A Levin

      Princeton University

    • Robert H Austin

      Princeton University

    • Liyu Liu

      Chongqing University

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  • Emergent States of Swarmalators and Their Insights for Robotics and Biological Systems

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: 1. Steven Ceron, Kevin O'Keeffe, Kirstin Petersen. "Diverse Behaviors in Non-Uniform, Chiral and Non-Chiral Swarmalators", Nature Communications 14, 940 (2023).<br>2. Steven Ceron*, Gaurav Gardi*, Kirstin Petersen, Metin Sitti. "Programmable Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Microrobot Collectives", PNAS (2023).<br>3. Steven Ceron, Wei Xiao, Daniela Rus. "Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Swarmalators with Programmable Formations and Locomotion for Robot Swarms". IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.<br>4. Richard Beattie*, Steven Ceron*, Daniela Rus. "Realizing Emergent Collective Behaviors Through Robotic Swarmalators." In Review.

    Presenters

    • Steven Ceron

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Authors

    • Steven Ceron

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Emergent phenomena in equilibrium and nonequilibrium collectives

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    Publication: - S. Cannon, J.J. Daymude, D. Randall and A.Richa: "A Markov Chain Algorithm for Compression in Self-Organizing Particle Systems."<br>Principles of Distributed Computing} (PODC), 279-288, 2016.<br><br>- S. Li, B. Dutta, S. Cannon, J.J. Daymude, R. Avinery, E. Aydin, A. Richa, D. Goldman, and D. Randall. "Programming active cohesive granular matter with mechanically induced phase changes," Science Advances 7(17), 2021.<br><br>- H. Kedia, S. Oh, and D. Randall: "Local Stochastic Algorithms for Alignment in Self-Organizing Particle Systems.'' International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science} (RANDOM), 14:1-14:20, 2022.<br><br>- J. Calvert and D. Randall, ``A local–global principle for nonequilibrium steady states.'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(42), 2024.

    Presenters

    • Dana Randall

      Georgia Tech

    Authors

    • Dana Randall

      Georgia Tech

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