Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using Biologically-inspire

In this thesis I present a language for instructing a sheet of identically-programmed, flexible, autonomous agents (``cells'') to assemble themselves into a predetermined global shape, using local interactions. The global shape is described as a folding construction on a continuous she...

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Main Author: Nagpal, Radhika
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7076