Programmable Matter 2 (ProgMat 2)

Goals and Contents

This project groups aims at designing and implementing algorithms for a specific model of programmable matter called Amoebots. The project group consists of two parts, covering the theoretical aspects (first phase) and the practical aspects (second phase).

• Goal
  • Design, analyze, and simulate algorithms
• First phase: Seminar
  • Read papers about the amoebot model and the circuit extension
• Second phase: Implementation/Design/Analysis
  • Implement and test existing algorithms
  • Design new algorithms
• Prerequirements
  • Ability to understand scientific papers
  • Basic programming skills
  • Ideally, also analytical skills
  • High motivation (programmable matter is a cool topic!)

Resources

• Slides of the Project Group presentation on July 18th, 2022
• Visualization/Simulations of the (classical) amoebot model
• Book chapter on the first four years of research on the amoebot model
• Youtube-Presentation on the Reconfigurable Circuit Extension of the amoebot model by Andreas Padalkin

Remark: On the slides of the project group presentation available for download here, some images are blacked out due to unclear copyrights; we will be happy to send an uncensored version via email upon request; if you are interested, simply send an email to Andreas Padalkin or Daniel Warner.

Contact

Andreas Padalkin

Daniel Warner