Physics of smart active matter: integrating active matter and control to gain insights into living systems
- 5 June 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 19 (23) , 4204-4207
Abstract
A confined active gas of collisional flapping robots that each sense and respond to light. Above some threshold a robot freezes its configuration which generates locomotion of the collective toward a light source although no individual robot can translate on its own.Keywords
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- National Science Foundation (PHY-2019745)
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