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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Kirstin H. Petersen
DESCRIPTION:Title: Construction by Robot Collectives\nSpeaker: Kirstin H.
	 Petersen\nAbstract: In robot collectives\, interactions between large
	 numbers of simple agents lead to complex global behaviors. A great
	 source of inspiration is social insects\, where thousands of individuals
	 coordinate to handle advanced tasks like nest construction in a
	 remarkably scalable and error tolerant manner. Likewise\, robot
	 collectives have the ability to address tasks beyond the reach of single
	 robots\, and promise more efficient parallel operation and greater
	 robustness due to redundancy. Key challenges involve both control and
	 physical implementation. In this seminar I will discuss an approach to
	 such systems relying on embodied intelligent robots designed as an
	 integral part of their environment\, where passive mechanical features
	 replace the need for complicated sensors and control. I will discuss
	 three systems; the first can assemble three-dimensional structures
	 according user-specified shapes; the others build structures according
	 to user-specified functionality. This work advances the aim of robot
	 collectives that achieve human-specified goals\, using
	 biologically-inspired principles for robustness and scalability.
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2016-11-29
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20161129T170000Z
DTEND:20161129T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161127T211727Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
DTSTAMP:20260408T131756Z
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