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18 October 2023 Understanding collective motion of living systems with fully steerable optical active particles
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Understanding the collective motion of living systems can facilitate the protection of ecosystems as well as the development of swarm robotics. To overcome the system-specific and oversimplified issues of traditional investigation methods, we propose to use our fully steerable active particles powered by localized light fields to mimic and study the collective motion in a more controllable and realistic manner. By dynamically tailoring the laser patterns that drive the colloidal particles' self-propulsion with certain interaction rules, the active particles can spontaneously form collective structures, display density-dependent responses, and show high robustness to external perturbations.
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Zhihan Chen and Yuebing Zheng "Understanding collective motion of living systems with fully steerable optical active particles", Proc. SPIE PC12649, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX, PC126490A (18 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2676005
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KEYWORDS
Particles

Active optics

Control systems

Modeling

Beam steering

Feedback control

Motion analysis

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