While researchers envision exciting applications for metamorphic systems like
programmable matter, current solutions to the shape formation problem are still a long way …

Shape formation (or pattern formation) is a basic distributed problem for systems of
computational mobile entities. Intensively studied for systems of autonomous mobile robots …

Programmable matter based on modular self-reconfigurable robots could stand as the
ultimate form of display system, through which humans could not only see the virtual world in …

We present the first universal reconfiguration algorithm for transforming a modular robot
between any two facet-connected square-grid configurations using pivot moves. More …

In the context of large distributed modular robots, self-reconfiguration is the process of
having modules, seen as autonomous agents, acting together and moving to transform the …

The sliding cubes model is a well-established theoretical framework that supports the
analysis of reconfiguration algorithms for modular robots consisting of face-connected …

We study algorithmic growth processes under a geometric setting. Each process begins with
an initial shape of nodes SI= S 0 and, in every time step t≥ 1, by applying (in parallel) one or …

A well-established theoretical model for modular robots in two dimensions are edge-
connected configurations of square modules, which can reconfigure through so-called …

In this work, we consider a solution of automata similar to Population Protocols and Network
Constructors. The automata, also called nodes, move passively in a well-mixed solution and …

In this work, we study a discrete system of entities residing on a two-dimensional square
grid. Each entity is modelled as a node occupying a distinct cell of the grid. The set of all n …