5 papers
Aggregating swarms through morphology handling design contingencies: from the sweet spot to a rich expressivity
Jeremy Fersula, Nicolas Bredeche, Olivier Dauchot
Morphological computing, the use of the physical design of a robot to ease the realization of a given task has been proven to be a relevant concept in the context of swarm robotics…
Pogobot: an Open-Source, Low-Cost Robot for Swarm Robotics and Programmable Active Matter
Alessia Loi, Loona Macabre, Jérémy Fersula +8
This paper describes the Pogobot, an open-source platform specifically designed for research at the interface of swarm robotics and active matter. Pogobot features vibration-based…
Collective actuation in active solids in the presence of a polarizing field: a systematic analysis of the dynamical regimes
Paul Baconnier, Vincent Démery, Olivier Dauchot
Collective actuation in active solids, the spontaneous condensation of the dynamics on a few elastic modes, takes place whenever the deformations of the structure reorient the forc…
Reentrant transition to collective actuation in active solids with a polarizing field
Paul Baconnier, Mathéo Aksil, Vincent Démery +1
Collective actuation in active solids - the spontaneous coherent excitation of a few vibrational modes - emerges from a feedback between structural deformations and the orientation…
No net motion for oscillating near-spheres at low Reynolds numbers
Kevin Lippera, Olivier Dauchot, Sébastien Michelin +1
We investigate the flow around an oscillating nearly-spherical particle at low, yet non-vanishing, Reynolds numbers, and the potential resulting locomotion. We analytically demonst…