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Collision Induced Binding and Transport of Shape Changing Robot Pairs
Akash Vardhan, Ram Avinery, Hosain Bagheri +7
We report in experiment and simulation the spontaneous formation of dynamically bound pairs of shape changing robots undergoing locally repulsive collisions. These physical `glider…
Adaptive High-Level Tight Control of Prostate Cancer: A Path from From Terminal Disease to Chronic Condition
Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Luciana Sarabia +9
Metastatic prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is characterized by a high mortality rate and a poor prognosis. In t…
Social Physics of Bacteria: Avoidance of an Information Black Hole
Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Domenic Ferreris +7
Social physics explores responses to information exchange in a social network, and can be mapped down to bacterial collective signaling. Here, we explore how social inter-bacterial…
Remark on the Entropy Production of Adaptive Run-and-Tumble Chemotaxis
Minh D. N. Nguyen, Phuc H. Pham, Khang V. Ngo +3
Chemotactic active particles, such as bacteria and cells, exhibit an adaptive run-and-tumble motion, giving rise to complex emergent behaviors in response to external chemical fiel…
Inertial Spinner Swarm Experiments: Spin Pumping, Entropy Oscillations and Spin Frustration
Shengkai Li, Trung V. Phan, Gao Wang +3
We present here an inertial active spinning swarm consisting of mixtures of opposite handedness torque driven spinners floating on an air bed with low damping. Depending on the rel…
Self-propulsion via slipping: frictional swimming in multi-legged locomotors
Baxi Chong, Juntao He, Shengkai Li +5
Locomotion is typically studied either in continuous media where bodies and legs experience forces generated by the flowing medium, or on solid substrates dominated by friction. In…
Gliders in shape-changing active matter
Akash Vardhan, Ram Avinery, Hridesh Kedia +3
We report in experiment and simulation the spontaneous formation of dynamically bound pairs of shape changing smarticle robots undergoing locally repulsive collisions. Borrowing te…
A robophysical model of spacetime dynamics
Shengkai Li, Hussain N. Gynai, Steven Tarr +4
Systems consisting of spheres rolling on elastic membranes have been used to introduce a core conceptual idea of General Relativity (GR): how curvature guides the movement of matte…
Locomotion without force, and impulse via dissipation: Robotic swimming in curved space via geometric phase
Shengkai Li, Tianyu Wang, Velin H. Kojouharov +5
Locomotion by shape changes (spermatozoon swimming, snake slithering, bird flapping) or gas expulsion (rocket firing) is assumed to require environmental interaction, due to conser…
Programming Active Cohesive Granular Matter with Mechanically Induced Phase Changes
Shengkai Li, Bahnisikha Dutta, Sarah Cannon +6
Active matter physics and swarm robotics have provided powerful tools for the study and control of ensembles driven by internal sources. At the macroscale, controlling swarms typic…
Field-mediated locomotor dynamics on highly deformable surfaces
Shengkai Li, Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Charles Xiao +6
In many systems motion occurs on deformed and deformable surfaces, setting up the possibility for dynamical interactions solely mediated by the coupling of the entities with their…
Phototactic Supersmarticles
Sarah Cannon, Joshua J. Daymude, William Savoie +5
Smarticles, or smart active particles, are small robots equipped with only basic movement and sensing abilities that are incapable of rotating or displacing individually. We study…