Networking chemical robots for reaction multitasking

Networking Multiple Robots for Cooperative Manipulation

Chemical Networking Protocols

Beyond the mere collection of computers, a network is the home of competing and cooperating execution flows. In this paper we show how to design network protocols based on molecule-like entities such that the corresponding execution flows can by analyzed as if they were chemical processes. Our goal is to create robust protocol implementations which are resilient to unreliable execution. We intr...

12 Chemical Robots

A wide variety of soft actuators have been studied with the progress of the intelligent materials. Especially, stimuli-responsive polymers and gels which swell or shrink in response to the environmental changes such as temperature (Hirokawa & Tanaka, 1984), electric field (Tanaka et al., 1984), light (Suzuki & Tanaka, 1990)], etc have been applied to the actuation devices. In previous decades, ...

Chemical Power for Microscopic Robots in Capillaries

UNLABELLED The power available to microscopic robots (nanorobots) that oxidize bloodstream glucose while aggregated in circumferential rings on capillary walls is evaluated with a numerical model using axial symmetry and time-averaged release of oxygen from passing red blood cells. Robots about 1 microm in size can produce up to several tens of picowatts, in steady state, if they fully use oxyg...

Chemical Master versus Chemical Langevin for First-Order Reaction Networks

Markov jump processes are widely used to model interacting species in circumstances where discreteness and stochasticity are relevant. Such models have been particularly successful in computational cell biology, and in this case, the interactions are typically first-order. The Chemical Langevin Equation is a stochastic differential equation that can be regarded as an approximation to the underl...