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Machines enabled the Industrial Revolution and are central to modern technological progress: A machine's parts transmit forces, motion, and energy to one another in a predetermined manner. Today's engineering frontier, building artificial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-18 A. Aubret , Q. Martinet , J. Palacci

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents capable of autonomous learning and independent decision-making hold great promise for addressing complex challenges across various critical infrastructure domains, including transportation, energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hepeng Li , Yuhong Liu , Jun Yan , Jie Gao , Xiaoou Yang

Steering traffic in cities is a very complex task, since improving efficiency involves the coordination of many actors. Traditional approaches attempt to optimize traffic lights for a particular density and configuration of traffic. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Gershenson

This paper investigates the problem of generation and load settings in a synthetic power grid modeling of high-voltage transmission network, considering both electrical parameters and topology measures. Our previous study indicated that the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Seyyed Hamid Elyas , Zhifang Wang , Robert J. Thomas

Spontaneous self-assembly in molecular systems is a fundamental route to both biological and engineered soft matter. Simple micellisation, emulsion formation, and polymer mixing principles are well understood. However, the principles behind…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-21 Alberto Scacchi , Sousa Javan Nikkhah , Maria Sammalkorpi , Tapio Ala-Nissila

This study proposes a distributed algorithm that makes agents' adaptive grouping entrap multiple targets via automatic decision making, smooth flocking, and well-distributed entrapping. Agents make their own decisions about which targets to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Chen Wang , Minqiang Gu , Wenxi Kuang , Dongliang Wang , Weicheng Luo , Zhaohui Shi , Zhun Fan

Many structural properties of conventional passive materials are known to arise from the symmetries of their microscopic constituents. By contrast, it is largely unclear how the interplay between cell shape and self-propulsion controls the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-29 H. H. Wensink , V. Kantsler , R. E. Goldstein , J. Dunkel

A new design of an AI assistant that has become increasingly popular is that of an "aggregated assistant" -- realized as an orchestrated composition of several individual skills or agents that can each perform atomic tasks. In this paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Sarath Sreedharan , Tathagata Chakraborti , Yara Rizk , Yasaman Khazaeni

How can one design complex systems capable of learning for a given functionality? In the context of ultrafast laser-surface interaction, we unravel the nature of learning schemes tied to the emergence of complexity in dissipative…

Active systems across scales, ranging from molecular machines to human crowds, are usually modeled as assemblies of self-propelled particles driven by internally generated forces. However, these models often assume memoryless dynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-10 Marc Besse , Raphaël Voituriez

This thesis presents the theoretical, conceptual and methodological aspects that support the modeling of dynamical systems (DS) by using several agents. The modeling approach permits the assessment of properties representing order, change,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Nelson Fernandez

Self-organization offers a promising approach for designing adaptive systems. Given the inherent complexity of most cyber-physical systems, adaptivity is desired, as predictability is limited. Here I summarize different concepts and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Carlos Gershenson

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 external forces and self-assemble according to certain rules. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Patrick Blumenberg , Arne Schmidt , Aaron T. Becker

Multifarious assembly models consider multiple structures assembled from a shared set of components, reflecting the efficient usage of components in biological self-assembly. These models are subject to a high-dimensional parameter space,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-30 Jakob Metson , Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian

We describe a computational model for studying the complexity of self-assembled structures with active molecular components. Our model captures notions of growth and movement ubiquitous in biological systems. The model is inspired by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Damien Woods , Ho-Lin Chen , Scott Goodfriend , Nadine Dabby , Erik Winfree , Peng Yin

Increasing evidence suggests that active matter exhibits instances of mixed symmetry that cannot be fully described by either polar or nematic formalism. Here, we introduce a minimal model that integrates self-propulsion into the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Niels de Graaf Sousa , Simon Guldager Andersen , Aleksandra Ardaševa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Accurate localization in diverse environments is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. The task involves determining a sensor's precise position and orientation, typically a camera, within a given space. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luca Di Giammarino , Boyang Sun , Giorgio Grisetti , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum , Daniel Barath

Biological systems often consist of a small number of constituents and are therefore inherently noisy. To function effectively, these systems must employ mechanisms to constrain the accumulation of noise. Such mechanisms have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Felix J. Meigel , Steffen Rulands

The algorithmic self-assembly of shapes has been considered in several models of self-assembly. For the problem of \emph{shape construction}, we consider an extended version of the Two-Handed Tile Assembly Model (2HAM), which contains…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Austin Luchsinger , Robert Schweller , Tim Wylie

The emerging field of passive macro-scale tile-based self-assembly (TBSA) shows promise in enabling effective manufacturing processes by harnessing TBSA's intrinsic parallelism. However, current TBSA methodologies still do not fulfill their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Jílek , K. Stránská , M. Somr , M. Kulich , J. Zeman , L. Přeučil