The world is becoming more digitised with the rise of modular robotic systems. Therefore,
with the increasing demands and needs for robotics, the modular robotic domain was …

The amoebot model abstracts active programmable matter as a collection of simple
computational elements called amoebots that interact locally to collectively achieve tasks of …

Shape formation (or pattern formation) is a basic distributed problem for systems of
computational mobile entities. Intensively studied for systems of autonomous mobile robots …

While researchers envision exciting applications for metamorphic systems like
programmable matter, current solutions to the shape formation problem are still a long way …

The vision for programmable matter is to realize a physical substance that is scalable,
versatile, instantly reconfigurable, safe to handle, and robust to failures. Programmable …

We consider an extension to the geometric amoebot model that allows amoebots to form so-
called circuits. Given a connected amoebot structure, a circuit is a subgraph formed by the …

In this paper we present a procedure to automatically design and verify the local behavior of
robots with highly limited cognition. All robots are: anonymous, homogeneous, non …

We consider programmable matter as a collection of simple computational elements (or
particles) with limited (constant-size) memory that self-organize to solve system-wide …

We consider programmable matter that consists of computationally limited devices (called
particles) that are able to self-organize in order to achieve some collective goal without the …

We study theoretical models of programmable matter systems, consisting of n spherical
modules kept together by magnetic or electrostatic forces and able to perform two minimal …