Experiments with Macroscopic Active Matter
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Complex adaptive systems (MPCAS), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Barona Balda, Angelo David
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Sammanfattning
Active matter research has been very prominent in the last decades. However, this
field mostly investigates microscopic particles. For this reason, most of the studies
so far rely on pure mathematics or numerical simulations to prove their points. In
this project, we select a set of simulations and create macroscopic experimental
setups to test the theoretical results. We use small self-propelling robots to emulate
microscopic active matter in a large scale. In the end, we demonstrate that these
macroscopic experiments are a good approximation of microscopic active systems.
Our setups are useful for potential didactic applications.
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Ämne/nyckelord
active matter , active particles , robots , HEXBUGS , chirality