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Computing Motion Plans for Assembling Particles with Global Control
Patrick Blumenberg, Arne Schmidt, Aaron T. Becker
We investigate motion planning algorithms for the assembly of shapes in the \emph{tilt model} in which unit-square tiles move in a grid world under the influence of uniform externa…
Reconfiguration of a 2D Structure Using Spatio-Temporal Planning and Load Transferring
Javier Garcia, Michael Yannuzzi, Peter Kramer +3
We present progress on the problem of reconfiguring a 2D arrangement of building material by a cooperative group of robots. These robots must avoid collisions, deadlocks, and are s…
Connected Reconfiguration of Polyominoes Amid Obstacles using RRT*
Javier Garcia, Michael Yannuzzi, Peter Kramer +2
This paper investigates the use of a sampling-based approach, the RRT*, to reconfigure a 2D set of connected tiles in complex environments, where multiple obstacles might be presen…
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…
Steering a Particle Swarm Using Global Inputs and Swarm Statistics
Shiva Shahrokhi, Lillian Lin, Chris Ertel +2
Microrobotics has the potential to revolutionize many applications including targeted material delivery, assembly, and surgery. The same properties that promise breakthrough soluti…
Collecting a Swarm in a Grid Environment Using Shared, Global Inputs
Arun V. Mahadev, Dominik Krupke, Jan-Marc Reinhardt +2
This paper investigates efficient techniques to collect and concentrate an under-actuated particle swarm despite obstacles. Concentrating a swarm of particles is of critical import…
Algorithms For Shaping a Particle Swarm With a Shared Control Input Using Boundary Interaction
Shiva Shahrokhi, Arun Mahadev, Aaron T. Becker
Consider a swarm of particles controlled by global inputs. This paper presents algorithms for shaping such swarms in 2D using boundary walls. The range of configurations created by…
Particle Computation: Designing Worlds to Control Robot Swarms with only Global Signals
Aaron Becker, Erik D. Demaine, Sándor P. Fekete +1
Micro- and nanorobots are often controlled by global input signals, such as an electromagnetic or gravitational field. These fields move each robot maximally until it hits a statio…
Crowdsourcing Swarm Manipulation Experiments: A Massive Online User Study with Large Swarms of Simple Robots
Aaron Becker, Chris Ertel, James McLurkin
Micro- and nanorobotics have the potential to revolutionize many applications including targeted material delivery, assembly, and surgery. The same properties that promise breakthr…
Exploration via Structured Triangulation by a Multi-Robot System with Bearing-Only Low-Resolution Sensors
SeoungKyou Lee, Aaron Becker, Sándor P. Fekete +2
This paper presents a distributed approach for exploring and triangulating an unknown region using a multi- robot system. The objective is to produce a covering of an unknown works…