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Transient State Machines: Transient State Machine Enabled from the Colliding and Coalescence of a Swarm of Autonomously Running Liquid Metal Motors (Small 39/2015)
Author(s) -
Sheng Lei,
He Zhizhu,
Yao Youyou,
Liu Jing
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201570240
Subject(s) - transient (computer programming) , swarm behaviour , coalescence (physics) , transient state , state (computer science) , robot , collision , computer science , mechanics , physics , materials science , engineering , artificial intelligence , electrical engineering , algorithm , astrobiology , operating system , computer security
A transient state machine is demonstrated by J. Liu and co‐workers based on findings on the generation, collision, bouncing, adhesion, or coalescence phenomena of self‐powered liquid‐metal droplet motors. On page 5253, it is shown that such transformable machines could switch among different working configurations such as single robot, separate moving elements, or a swarm of autonomously running motors. The transient state is reversible, such that tremendous discrete droplet machines injected from a single source could recombine to their original state.