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The classes will be a mix of lectures by the instructor and student presentations. Classes are 1 hour and 20 min long. In a typical class we will have one presentation, about 1 hour long, followed by 20 min of discussion. The last class(es) will consist of student project presentations.

Each week there will be assigned readings. All students are expected to read the material ahead of the class and be prepared to discuss it in class. A 12-point font, one-sheet summary and critique of the assigned material is due from each student at the beginning of the class. One summary per presentation will be required. You don't need to submit a summary for a paper you are presenting. These summaries will be graded as acceptable/non-acceptable. Longer summaries will be returned with a non-acceptable grade. Summaries submitted late will be graded non-acceptable. The summaries should attempt to distill the most interesting ideas in the readings, point out strong and weak points in the material and relate it to the rest of the course. Sometimes several papers are assigned for a single presentation. Then a single summary is required for the presentation (not for the individual papers), and students should attempt to integrate the material in the various papers rather than report on each individual paper, both in the presentations and one-sheet summaries.

Each student is expected to make one or two presentations during the course. Please select one of the topics below and let the instructor know as soon as possible.

The plan is as follows.

#1 - January 12

Course organization. - Instructor.

Introduction to Self-Organization. - Instructor.

#2 - January 14

Introduction to Nanotechnology. - Instructor. (No summaries needed.)

January 19

No Class. (Holiday.)

A. M. Turing, "The chemical basis of morphogenesis", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Vol. 237, No. 641, August 14, 1952, pp. 37-72. We'll cover only sections 1-4 and 6 to equation 6.1 - Kaveh Shahabi.

#4 - January 26

"Ant foraging behavior", Ch. 2, Sections 2.1 to 2.3 (incl.) of E. Bonabeau, M. Dorigo and G. Theraulaz, Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1999. - Archit Jain.

#5 - January 28

R. Vaughan, "Massively multi-robot simulation in Stage", Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 2, Nos. 2-4, pp. 189-208, December 2008. Currently you can access this paper directly from the journal web site (Google it); go directly to the journal site, not through the USC remote portal. Available also here.

B. Gerkey, R. T. Vaughan and A. Howard, "The player/stage project: tools for multi-robot and distributed sensor systems", Proc. Int'l Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '03), Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 317-323, June 30-July 3, 2003. - Dian-Hua Lin.

#6 - February 2

D. J. Arbuckle and A. A. G. Requicha, "Self-assembly and self-repair of arbitrary shapes by a swarm of reactive robots: algorithms and simulations", submitted, 2008.

D. J. Arbuckle and A. A. G. Requicha, "Active self-assembly", IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 25-30, 2004.

D. J. Arbuckle and A. A. G. Requicha, "Shape restoration by active self-assembly", Int'l Symp. on Robotics and Automation, Queretaro, Mexico, August 25-27, 2004. - Instructor.

#7 - February 4

S. Hauert, L. Winkler, J.-C. Zufferey and D. Floreano, "Ant-based swarming with positionless micro air vehicles for communication relay", Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 2, Nos. 2-4, pp. 167-188, December 2008. See above comments on access. Earlier version available also from the author's lab web site, at this URL. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

#8 - February 9

#9 - February 11

A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo, "SWARMORPH-script: a language for arbitrary morphology generation in self-assembling robots", Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 2, Nos. 2-4, pp. 143-165, December 2008. See above comments on access. - Kaveh Shahabi.

February 16

No class. (Holiday.)

February 18

W.-M. Shen, P. Will, A. Galstyan and C.-M. Chuong, "Hormone-inspired self-organization and distributed control of robotic swarms", Autonomous Robots, Vol. 17, pp.93-105, 2004.

M. Rubenstein and W.-M. Shen, "A scalable and distributed approach for self-assembly and self-healing of a differentiated shape", Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '08), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

#10 - February 23

A. Kondacs, "Biologically-inspired self-assembly of two-dimensional shapes using global-to-local compilation", IJCAI-03.

J. Cheng, W. Cheng and R. Nagpal, "Robust and self-repairing formation control for swarms of mobile agents", AAAI-05. - Kaveh Shahabi.

#11 - February 25

J. Werfel, D. Ingber and R. Nagpal, "Collective construction of environmentally-adaptive structures", Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), October 2007.

J. Werfel, Y. Bar-Yam and R. Nagpal, "Building patterned structures with robot swarms", Proc. Int'l. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '05), August 2005. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

#12 - March 2

D. Yamins and R. Nagpal, "Automated Global-to-Local Programming in 1-D Spatial Multi-Agent Systems", Proc. Int'l. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS '08), 2008. - Dian-Hua Lin.

#13 - March 4

Go to the talk by Prof. Hartmut Schmeck, 3:30 pm, room SOS B46 (social sciences building). Take notes and write a 1-page summary due at next class.

#14 - March 9

S. A. Hofmeyr, "An interpretative introduction to the immune system", Chapter 1 of L. A. Segel and I. R. Cohen, Eds., Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2001. Available from the author's web site. - Instructor.

#15 - March 11

E. Klavins, "Directed self-assembly using graph grammars", Foundations of Nanoscience: Self Assembled Architectures and Devices, Snowbird, UT, 2004. - Kaveh Shahabi.

March 16

No class. (Spring break.)

March 18

No class. (Spring break.)

#16 - March 23

Introduction to atomic force microscopy. (No summaries needed.) - Instructor.

#17 - March 25

#18 - March 30

No class; traveling.

#19 - April 1

Prater, Maivald, Kjoller and Heaton, "Probing nano-scale forces with the atomic force microscope", DI Application Note AN08.

A. S. Lee, M. Mahapatro, D. A. Caron, A. A. G. Requicha, B. A. Stauffer, M. E. Thompson and C. Zhou, "Whole-cell sensing for a harmful bloom-forming microscopic alga by measuring antibody-antigen forces", IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2006. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

A. A. G. Requicha, D. J. Arbuckle, B. Mokaberi and J. Yun, "Algorithms and software for nanomanipulation with atomic force microscopes", Int'l J. Robotics Research, in press. - Dian-Hua Lin.

#21 - April 8

Kong et al., "Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors", Science, Vol. 287, pp. 622-625, 28 January 2000.

C. Li et al., "Complementary detection of prostate-specific antigen using In2O3 nanowires and carbon nanotubes", J. American Chemical Society, Vol. 127, No. 36, pp. 12484-12485, 14 September 2005.

M. Curreli et al., "Selective functionalization of In2O3-nanowire mat devices for biosensing applications", J. American Chemical Society,, Vol. 127, No. 19, pp. 6922-6923, 18 May 2005.

G. Zheng et al., "Multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers with nanowire sensor arrays", Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1294-1301, October 2005. - Kaveh Shahabi.

#22 - April 13

V. Balzani, A. Credi and M. Venturi, "Molecular devices and machines", Nanotoday, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 18-25, April 2007. (Available from www.sciencedirect.com .)

A. P. Davis, "Synthetic molecular motors", Nature, Vol. 401, pp. 120-121, 9 September 1999. (Focus on the discussion of Feringa's motor.)

N. Koumura, R. W. J. Zijlstra, R. A. van Delden, N. Harada and B. L. Feringa, "Light-driven monodirectional molecular rotor", Nature, Vol. 401, pp. 152-155, 9 September 1999. - Dian-Hua Lin.

#23 - April 15

L. Dong, B. J. Nelson, T. Fukuda and F. Arai, "Towards nanotube linear servomotors", IEEE Trans. on Automation Science & Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 228-235, July 2006.

B. Bourlon, D. C. Glattli, C. Miko, L. Forro and A. Bachtold,"Carbon nanotube based bearing for rotational motions", Nanoletters, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 709-712, April 2004.

K. Jensen, C. Girit, W. Mickelson and A. Zettl, "Tunable nanoresonators constructed from telescopic nanotubes", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, 215503, 2 June 2006. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

#24 - April 20

J.-J. Greffet, "Nanoantennas for light emission", Science, Vol. 308, pp. 1561-1563, 10 June 2005.

J. A. Misewich, R. Martel, Ph. Avouris, J. C. Tsang, S. Heinze and J. Tersoff, "Electrically induced optical emission from a carbon nanotube FET", Science, Vol. 300, pp. 783-786, 2 May 2003.

E. Cubukcu, E. A. Cort, K. B. Crozier and F. Capasso, "Plasmonic laser antenna", Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 89, 093120, 2006.

K. Jensen, J. Weldon, H. Garcia and A. Zettl, "Nanotube radio", Nanoletters, Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 3508-3511, July 2007. - Dian-Hua Lin.

#25 - April 22

Z. L. Wang and J. Song, "Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on zinc oxide nanowires", Nature, Vol. 312, pp. 242-246, 14 April 2006.

X. Wang, J. Song, J. Liu and Z. L. Wang, " Direct-current nanogenerator driven by ultrasonic waves", Science, Vol. 316, pp. 102-105, 6 April 2007.

B. Tian, X. Zheng, T. J. Kempa, Y. Fang, N. Yu, G. Yu, J. Huang and C. M. Lieber, "Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources", Nature, Vol. 449, pp. 885-889, 18 October 2007. - Ehsan Moeinzadeh.

#26 - April 27

Propulsion at low-Reynolds number (Sir Geoff Taylor tape) - Instructor. (No summary needed.)

Diffusion (H. Berg, Random Walks in Biology, Ch. 1-6) - Instructor. (No summary needed.)

#27 - April 29

Project Reports.

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