Particle computation: Designing worlds to control robot swarms with only global signals

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 stationary obstacle or another stationary robot. This paper investigates 2D motion-planning complexity for large swarms of sim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Becker, Aaron, Demaine, Erik D., Fekete, Sandor P., McLurkin, James
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100006
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-5703