A robot made of robots: Emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble

Abstract

Directed locomotion of a collective robot composed of stochastically interacting immotile robots was achieved.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 11, 2019
Source ID
10.1126/scirobotics.aax4316

Entities

People

  • Ana Pervan
  • Daniel I. Goldman
  • Kurt Wiesenfeld
  • Ross Warkentin
  • Shengkai Li
  • Thomas A Berrueta
  • Todd D Murphey
  • William Savoie
  • Zachary Jackson

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Georgia Tech
  • National Science Foundation
  • Northwestern University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control