Centralised Connectivity-Preserving Transformations for Programmable Matter: A Minimal Seed Approach

08/20/2021
by   Matthew Connor, et al.
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We study a model of programmable matter systems consisting of n devices lying on a 2-dimensional square grid which are able to perform the minimal mechanical operation of rotating around each other. The goal is to transform an initial shape A into a target shape B. We investigate the class of shapes which can be constructed in such a scenario under the additional constraint of maintaining global connectivity at all times. We focus on the scenario of transforming nice shapes, a class of shapes consisting of a central line L where for all nodes u in S either u ∈ L or u is connected to L by a line of nodes perpendicular to L. We prove that by introducing a minimal 3-node seed it is possible for the canonical shape of a line of n nodes to be transformed into a nice shape of n-1 nodes. We use this to show that a 4-node seed enables the transformation of nice shapes of size n into any other nice shape of size n in O(n^2) time. We leave as an open problem the expansion of the class of shapes which can be constructed using such a seed to include those derived from nice shapes.

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