What do ice wedge networks, meandering rivers, sorted patterned ground, beach cusps, sand dunes, and humans have in common? All are examples of complexity emerging...
Many natural systems spontaneously self organize into surprisingly ordered structures, even though they are driven far from equilibrium. Order often appears "for free" without any...
"Multi-robot system for artistic pattern formation" presented at ICRA 2011. J. Alonso-Mora, A. Breitenmoser, M. Rufli, R. Siegwart, P. Beardsley. ETH Zurich and Disney Research...
Many future engineering systems may consist of swarms of multiple, mobile autonomous agents, operating together to solve engineering problems in new and efficient ways. To...
Water flowing down a shallow and almost featureless incline made of granular matter. The resulting patterns in the flow (and presumably the sand) caught my...
Automatic pattern formation of swarm robots using a morphogenetic approach. (simulation) This experiment is conducted by Embedded Systems and Robotics Laboratory Department of Electrical and...
Spatial self-organization is the main theoretical explanation for the global occurrence of regular or otherwise coherent spatial patterns in ecosystems. Using mussel beds as a...
