專題演講 Seminar

Title

Collective response of microrobotic swarms to external threats

Speaker

陳駿仁先生 (德國康斯坦茨大學物理研究所)

Mr. Chun-Jen Chen (Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.)

Abstract

Many animal species organize within groups to achieve advantages compared to being isolated. Such advantages can be found e.g. in collective responses which are less prone to individual failures or noise and thus provide better group performance. Inspired by social animals, here we demonstrate with a swarm of microrobots made from programmable active colloidal particles (APs) that their escape from a hazardous area can originate from a cooperative group formation. As a consequence, the escape efficiency remains almost unchanged even when half of the APs are not responding to the threat. Our results not only confirm that incomplete or missing individual information in robotic swarms can be compensated by other group members but also suggest strategies to increase the responsiveness and fault-tolerance of robotic swarms when performing tasks in complex environments.

Language

演講語言 (Language): in English

Hosted by

陳志強 兼任研究員
Chan, Chi Keung / Adjunct Research Fellow