Synergetic agents : from multi-robot systems to molecular robotics /

• Main Author: Haken, H.
• Other Authors: Levi, Paul
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2012]
• Subjects: Robotics.; Robots > Motion.; Self-organizing systems.; Synergetics.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Robotics.; Electronic books.

"This book addresses both multi robot systems and miniaturization to the nanoscale from a unifying point of view, but without leaving aside typical particularities of either. The unifying aspect is based on the concept of information minimization whose precise formulation is the Haken-Levi-prin...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. Classical synergetic agents
• Introduction : In search for general principles
• Multirobot action
• Multirobot action II : extended configurations
• pt. 2. Quantum synergetic agents
• Quantum theory of robotic motion and chemical interactions
• Applications to molecular processes
• Molecular transport along one-dimensional periodic structures
• A topic in quantum biology
• Quantum information
• Molecular robots.