5 papers
Emergent Workload Inequality in Collective Excavation
Laura K. Treers, Aradhya Rajanala, Nathan Nguyen +3
Living collectives and artificial swarms frequently employ a division of labor, wherein individuals take on different tasks or perform different amounts of work. However, the mecha…
Tunable asymmetric swimming in biflagellate microswimmers
Benjamin J. Walker, Clément Moreau, Tommie L. Robinson +4
Many biological microswimmers can modulate their swimming gait to achieve directional control of motility, especially when performing steering towards specific directional cues. Th…
Terradynamics and design of tip-extending robotic anchors
Deniz Kerimoglu, Nicholas D. Naclerio, Sean Chu +5
Most engineered pilings require substantially more force to be driven into the ground than they can resist during extraction. This requires relatively heavy equipment for insertion…
Robot Excavation and Manipulation of Geometrically Cohesive Granular Media
Laura Treers, Daniel Soto, Joonha Hwang +2
Construction throughout history typically assumes that its blueprints and building blocks are pre-determined. However, recent work suggests that alternative approaches can enable n…
Fault-Tolerant Multi-Robot Coordination with Limited Sensing within Confined Environments
Kehinde O. Aina, Hosain Bagheri, Daniel I. Goldman
As robots are increasingly deployed to collaborate on tasks within shared workspaces and resources, the failure of an individual robot can critically affect the group's performance…