4 papers
Moving Matter: Using a Single, Simple Robot to Reconfigure a Connected Set of Building Blocks
Javier Garcia, Jonas Friemel, Ramin Kosfeld +9
We implement and evaluate different methods for the reconfiguration of a connected arrangement of tiles into a desired target shape, using a single active robot that can move along…
Using Mobile Relays to Strongly Connect a Minimum-Power Network between Terminals Complying with No-Transmission Zones
Francesco Bernardini, Daniel Biediger, Ileana Pineda +2
We present strategies for placing a swarm of mobile relays to provide a bi-directional wireless network that connects fixed (immobile) terminals. Neither terminals nor relays are p…
The Pursuit and Evasion of Drones Attacking an Automated Turret
Daniel Biediger, Luben Popov, Aaron T. Becker
This paper investigates the pursuit-evasion problem of a defensive gun turret and one or more attacking drones. The turret must ``visit" each attacking drone once, as quickly as po…
Enumeration of Polyominoes & Polycubes Composed of Magnetic Cubes
Yitong Lu, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee, Daniel Biediger +2
This paper examines a family of designs for magnetic cubes and counts how many configurations are possible for each design as a function of the number of modules. Magnetic modular…