Physical Systems
Researchers in the field of physical systems at NICO approach a variety of questions—why some countries have more major political parties than others, what energy-efficient materials remain to be created, how to make a robot juggle—from a physical science approach. They work to improve human-computer networks, medical robotics, and industrial hardware and software through problem-solving that relies on a firm basis in physics and engineering but also involves a deep understanding of biology, social dynamics, geosciences, and medicine.
Research Topics
Research topics in this area include the following:
- Robotic Sensor Swarms
- Transportation Networks
- Urban Traffic Signal Timing
- Control Theory
Faculty
NICO faculty members working in this area:
- Luis Amaral
- Danny Abrams
- Neda Bagheri
- Sunil Chopra
- Randy Freeman
- Seyed Iravani
- William Kath
- Kevin Lynch
- Malcolm MacIver
- Adilson Motter
- Milan Mrksich
- Todd Murphey
- Julio Ottino
- Dashun Wang
Publications
Read the following publications from NICO Faculty:
- Khaluf Y, Ferrante E, Simoens P, Huepe C (2017) Scale invariance in natural and artificial collective systems: a review. J. R. Soc. Interface,
- Elwin ML, Freeman RA, Lynch KM (2017) Distributed Voronoi Neighbor Identification From Inter-Robot Distances. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, pp. 1320-1327.