ArticleScience advances2020
Cargo capture and transport by colloidal swarms.
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- Opto-Thermal-Tension Mediated Precision Large-Scale Particle Manipulation and Flexible Patterning.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Complex motion of steerable vesicular robots filled with active colloidal rods.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Magnetically locked Janus particle clusters with orientation-dependent motion in AC electric fields.Nanoscale · 2023Article
- Capture and transport of rod-shaped cargo via programmable active particles.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Review
- Extension of Kelvin's equation to dipolar colloids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Nano/Micromotors in Active Matter.Micromachines · 2022Review
- Cooperative transport by flocking phototactic micromotors.Nanoscale advances · 2021Article
- A two-step strategy for delivering particles to targets hidden within microfabricated porous media.Science advances · 2021Article
- Dynamic thermal trapping enables cross-species smart nanoparticle swarms.Science advances · 2021Article
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Abstract
Controlling active colloidal particle swarms could enable useful microscopic functions in emerging applications at the interface of nanotechnology and robotics. Here, we present a computational study of controlling self-propelled colloidal particle propulsion speeds to cooperatively capture and transport cargo particles, which otherwise produce random dispersions. By sensing swarm and cargo coordinates, each particle's speed is actuated according to a control policy based on multiagent assignment and path planning strategies that navigate stochastic particle trajectories to targets around cargo. Colloidal swarms are shown to dynamically cage cargo at their center via inward radial forces while simultaneously translating via directional forces. Speed, power, and efficiency of swarm tasks display emergent coupled dependences on swarm size and pair interactions and approach asymptotic limits indicating near-optimal performance. This scheme exploits unique interactions and stochastic dynamics in colloidal swarms to capture and transport microscopic cargo in a robust, stable, error-tolerant, and dynamic manner.
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