Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation
Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation
Acting optimally in partially observable stochastic domains
AAAI'94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 2)
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Multiagent teamwork: analyzing the optimality and complexity of key theories and models
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Noise and the Reality Gap: The Use of Simulation in Evolutionary Robotics
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Optimizing information exchange in cooperative multi-agent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Controlling tiny multi-scale robots for nerve repair
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
Assembly automation with evolutionary nanorobots and sensor-based control applied to nanomedicine
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Stability analysis of social foraging swarms
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Towards harmony-oriented programming
Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
International Journal of Robotics Research
Harmony-oriented programming and software evolution
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Cooperative behavior of nano-robots as an analogous of the quantum harmonic oscillator
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 2 - Volume 2
Robot algorithms for localization of multiple emission sources
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Multiagent control provides strategies for aggregating microscopic robots ("nanorobots") in fluid environments relevant for medical applications. Unlike larger robots, viscous forces and Brownian motion dominate the behavior. Examples range from modified microorganisms (programmable bacteria) to future robots using ongoing developments in molecular computation, sensors and motors. We evaluate controls for locating a cell-sized area emitting a chemical into a moving fluid with parameters corresponding to chemicals released in response to injury or infection in small blood vessels. These control methods are passive Brownian motion, following the chemical concentration gradient, and cooperative behaviors in which some robots use acoustic signals to guide others to the chemical source. Control performance is evaluated using diffusion equations to describe the robot motions and control state transitions. The quantitative results show these control techniques are feasible approaches to the task with trade-offs among fabrication difficulty, response speed, false positive detection rate and energy use. Controlled aggregation at chemically distinctive locations could be useful for sensitive diagnosis, selective changes to biological tissues and forming structures using previous proposals for multiagent control of modular robots.