biofilms

In this talk, we present our algorithm for energy distribution in programmable matter. We also detail our self-stabilizing extension of the amoebot model’s well-established spanning forest primitive. We conclude by showing how these algorithms generalize previous work to also consider energy constraints.

We extend the amoebot model to consider energy constraints and introduce an algorithm that distributes energy to all particles that need it to participate in the system’s collective behavior. This generalizes existing algorithms in the amoebot catalogue to also respect energy constraints.