Abstract:Motivated by the manipulation of nanoscale materials, recent investigations have focused on hybrid systems where passive elements incapable of movement, called tiles, are manipulated by one or more mobile entities, called robots, with limited computational capabilities. Like in most self-organizing systems, the fundamental concern is with the (geometric) shapes created by the position of the tiles; among them, the line is perhaps the most important. The existing investigations have focused on formation of the … Show more
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