Signal propagation in complex networks

P Ji, J Ye, Y Mu, W Lin, Y Tian, C Hens, M Perc, Y Tang… - Physics reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Micro/nanorobotic swarms: from fundamentals to functionalities

J Law, J Yu, W Tang, Z Gong, X Wang, Y Sun - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Swarms, which stem from collective behaviors among individual elements, are commonly
seen in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists have been attempting to understand the …

Autonomous environment-adaptive microrobot swarm navigation enabled by deep learning-based real-time distribution planning

L Yang, J Jiang, X Gao, Q Wang, Q Dou… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Navigating a large swarm of micro-/nanorobots is critical for potential targeted
delivery/therapy applications owing to the limited volume/function of a single microrobot, and …

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

Symmetry, thermodynamics, and topology in active matter

MJ Bowick, N Fakhri, MC Marchetti, S Ramaswamy - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The name active matter refers to any collection of entities that individually use free energy to
generate their own motion and forces. Through interactions, active particles spontaneously …

Developments and challenges of miniature piezoelectric robots: A review

J Li, J Deng, S Zhang, W Chen, J Zhao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Miniature robots have been widely studied and applied in the fields of search and rescue,
reconnaissance, micromanipulation, and even the interior of the human body benefiting from …

Humanlike spontaneous motion coordination of robotic fingers through spatial multi-input spike signal multiplexing

DG Roe, DH Ho, YY Choi, YJ Choi, S Kim, SB Jo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
With advances in robotic technology, the complexity of control of robot has been increasing
owing to fundamental signal bottlenecks and limited expressible logic state of the von …

Social learning in swarm robotics

N Bredeche, N Fontbonne - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we present an implementation of social learning for swarm robotics. We
consider social learning as a distributed online reinforcement learning method applied to a …

A 5 cm‐Scale Piezoelectric Jetting Agile Underwater Robot

K Li, X Zhou, Y Liu, J Sun, X Tian… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Existing miniature underwater robots, which use electromagnetic actuators or soft actuators,
function in shallow waters. However, in the deep sea, the robots face challenges, such as …

Federated reinforcement learning for collective navigation of robotic swarms

S Na, T Rouček, J Ulrich, J Pikman… - … on cognitive and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent advancement of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) contributed to robotics by
allowing automatic controller design. The automatic controller design is a crucial approach …