Water Floating Self-assembling Agents

Authors:
Shuhei Miyashita;Maik Hadorn;Peter Eggenberger Hotz
Affiliations:
University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland;University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland;University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland and University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Venue:
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel model of autonomous floating agents which can self-assemble on a water surface. We focus especially on the shape of the agent, which is essential as a factor of aggregation but difficult to deal with as finite states. After several experiments, a unique self-assembling behavior was observed by exploiting several physical-level forces; 6 agents gather into a cluster and form a specific pattern, which is unique to the configuration. This is considered crucial to achieve morphogenesis of a multi-agent system, of which we think as a hierarchical aggregation. The results shown here provide a good starting point for speculation about the level of autonomy of a agent in the complex environment when the system creates a self-assembling pattern.