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Learning Backward Transport for Source Localization
Maurizio Carbone, Lorenzo Piro
We address the problem of locating a chemical source in a flow. Based on the duality between the concentration field and Lagrangian tracer trajectories, we interpret concentration…
Smart strategies to navigate turbulent odor plumes reorienting to local wind
Lorenzo Piro, Maurizio Carbone, Luca Biferale +4
Olfactory search in turbulent environments is a sensorimotor problem that many animals solve with remarkable efficiency, yet replicating this ability in artificial systems is an en…
Olfactory pursuit: catching a moving odor source in complex flows
Maurizio Carbone, Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen +3
Locating and intercepting a moving target from possibly delayed, intermittent sensory signals is a paradigmatic problem in decision-making under uncertainty, and a fundamental chal…
Nonequilibrium energetics of sensing and actuation by a smart active particle
Luca Cocconi, Benoît Mahault, Lorenzo Piro
Smart active agents must allocate finite energetic resources across distinct functions, yet the underlying thermodynamic trade-offs remain poorly understood. Here, we introduce a m…
Adaptive shape control for microswimmer navigation in turbulence
Jingran Qiu, Lorenzo Piro, Luca Biferale +3
Navigation in turbulent environments is a fundamental challenge for biological and artificial microswimmers. While most existing studies focus on adapting motility or steering, the…
TURB-Smoke. A database of Lagrangian pollutants emitted from point-sources and dispersed in turbulent flows
Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso, Niccolò Cocciaglia +2
Identifying the location and characteristics of pollution sources in turbulent flows is challenging, especially for environmental monitoring and emergency response, due to sparse,…
Acceleration of Lagrangian Particles in Shell Models of Turbulence
Lorenzo Piro, Massimo Cencini, Roberto Benzi
Lagrangian acceleration has been investigated both experimentally and numerically in the past, and it has been shown to exhibit extreme fluctuations, which have been rationalized a…
Policy heterogeneity improves collective olfactory search in 3-D turbulence
Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen, Maurizio Carbone +2
We investigate the role of policy heterogeneity in enhancing the olfactory search capabilities of cooperative agent swarms operating in complex, real-world turbulent environments.…
Dissipation-accuracy tradeoffs in autonomous control of smart active matter
Luca Cocconi, Benoît Mahault, Lorenzo Piro
The study of motility control by smart agents offers a promising platform for systematically exploring the fundamental physical constraints underlying the functioning of bio-inspir…
Many wrong models approach to localize an odor source in turbulence with static sensors
Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen, Massimo Cencini +1
The problem of locating an odor source in turbulent flows is central to key applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster response. We address this challenge by design…
Energetic cost of microswimmer navigation: the role of body shape
Lorenzo Piro, Andrej Vilfan, Ramin Golestanian +1
We study the energetic efficiency of navigating microswimmers by explicitly taking into account the geometry of their body. We show that, as their shape transitions from prolate to…
Optimal navigation of microswimmers in complex and noisy environments
Lorenzo Piro, Benoît Mahault, Ramin Golestanian
We design new navigation strategies for travel time optimization of microscopic self-propelled particles in complex and noisy environments. In contrast to strategies relying on the…
Optimal navigation strategies for microswimmers on curved manifolds
Lorenzo Piro, Evelyn Tang, Ramin Golestanian
Finding the fastest path to a desired destination is a vitally important task for microorganisms moving in a fluid flow. We study this problem by building an analytical formalism f…
Collective olfactory search in a turbulent environment
Mihir Durve, Lorenzo Piro, Massimo Cencini +2
Finding the distant source of an odor dispersed by a turbulent flow is a vital task for many organisms, either for foraging or for mating purposes. At the level of individual searc…