Robust self-assembly using highly designable structures
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Self-assembly creates structures through a statistical exploration of many possibilities. In some cases, these explorations give rise to a few highly designable structures that can be formed in exceptionally many ways. Using such structures for self-assembly tasks is a general approach to improving their reliability. This design principle can be applied to a variety of situations, including molecular devices and coordinated behaviours from collections of autonomous robots.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999