Asynchronous silent programmable matter: Line formation

A Navarra, F Piselli - International Symposium on Stabilizing, Safety, and …, 2023 - Springer
Programmable Matter (PM) has been widely investigated in recent years. It refers to some
kind of matter with the ability to change its physical properties (eg, shape or color) in a …

[PDF][PDF] Brief announcement: Line formation in silent programmable matter

A Navarra, F Piselli - 37th International Symposium on …, 2023 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Programmable Matter (PM) has been widely investigated in recent years. One reference
model is certainly Amoebot, with its recent canonical version (DISC 2021). Along this line …

Gathering a Euclidean closed chain of robots in linear time and improved algorithms for chain-formation

J Castenow, J Harbig, D Jung, T Knollmann… - Theoretical Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider formation problems for chains of disoriented, mobile robots with limited visibility
operating in asynchronous rounds (A sync). More precisely, we study the Chain-Formation …

[PDF][PDF] Local protocols for contracting and expanding robot formation problems

J Castenow - 2023 - digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de
Inspired by the vision of robot swarms collectively exploring hazardous areas such as the
surface of distant planets (eg, Marsbees [75]), we study the theoretical foundations of mobile …