Programmable matter: concepts and realization
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop on Lattice gas methods for PDE's : theory, applications and hardware: theory, applications and hardware
Selcted papers from a meeting on Waves and pattern in chemical and biological media
Selcted papers from a meeting on Waves and pattern in chemical and biological media
Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation
Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation
Edges and computation in excitable media (poster)
ALIFE Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Artificial life
Collective sorting and segregation in robots with minimal sensing
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats 5
Voronoi-like nondeterministic partition of a lattice by collectives of finite automata
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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Natural collective systems, such as social insects, provide us with an existence proof that remarkable feats of construction can be achieved by 'simple' agents. Such feats appear to demand impressive control and coordination which is even more remarkable since the agents are not provided with the overaill 'blue-print' for construction. However, as a consequence of the agents carrying out simple rules, an emergent macroscopic structure can develop. In an attempt to understand some of the underlying principles, this paper deals with pattern formations built by a swarm of mobile agents in a lattice. In particular, the morphological classification of the formed structures is provided and classes of simple, complex and non-trivially ordered structures are characterised. For these experiments, all agents start their evolution at the same site in the lattice. This investigation extends the ideas of [1] and [18] by giving agents simple rules, based on neighbourhood characteristics, which govern whether they move or become static. The final outcomes, defined by the immobility of all agents, is studied and the global static structures created are presented and discussed. Since the rules are parameterised, the paper reports on the selection of rule types to generate classes of ordered structures.