Optimal navigation of microswimmers in complex and noisy environments

Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines

(2021) Mandana T. Manzari et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Hydrodynamics can determine the optimal route for microswimmer navigation

(2021) Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider et al.   Communications Physics

Reinforcement learning with artificial microswimmers

(2021) S. Muiños-Landin et al.   Science Robotics

Optimal navigation and behavioural traits in oceanic migrations

(2020) Jérôme Pinti et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Feedback-controlled active brownian colloids with space-dependent rotational dynamics

(2020) Miguel Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez et al.   Nature Communications

Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

(2019) H.-W. Huang et al.   Science Advances

Zermelo’s problem: Optimal point-to-point navigation in 2D turbulent flows using reinforcement learning

(2019) L. Biferale et al.   CHAOS

Small-Scale Machines Driven by External Power Sources

(2018) Xiang-Zhong Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Clustering of Magnetic Swimmers in a Poiseuille Flow

(2018) Fanlong Meng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Flow Navigation by Smart Microswimmers via Reinforcement Learning

(2017) Simona Colabrese et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Focusing and Sorting of Ellipsoidal Magnetic Particles in Microchannels

(2017) Daiki Matsunaga et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optimal run-and-tumble–based transportation of a Janus particle with active steering

(2017) Tomoyuki Mano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Orthogonal navigation of multiple visible-light-driven artificial microswimmers

(2017) Jing Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Tuning the motility and directionality of self-propelled colloids

(2017) Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano et al.   Scientific Reports

Magnetotactic bacteria

(2016) Stefan Klumpp et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Effective Dynamics of Microorganisms That Interact with Their Own Trail

(2016) W. Till Kranz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Phototaxis of synthetic microswimmers in optical landscapes

(2016) Celia Lozano et al.   Nature Communications

A steering mechanism for phototaxis in Chlamydomonas

(2015) R. R. Bennett et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Active swarms on a sphere

(2015) Rastko Sknepnek et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Boundaries can steer active Janus spheres

(2015) Sambeeta Das et al.   Nature Communications

Artificial rheotaxis

(2015) J. Palacci et al.   Science Advances

Stochastic Localization of Microswimmers by Photon Nudging

(2014) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   ACS Nano

Clusters, asters, and collective oscillations in chemotactic colloids

(2014) Suropriya Saha et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Gravitaxis of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles

(2014) Borge ten Hagen et al.   Nature Communications

Rheotaxis facilitates upstream navigation of mammalian sperm cells

(2014) Vasily Kantsler et al.   eLife

Symmetry and reduction in collectives: cyclic pursuit strategies

(2013) K. S. Galloway et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Finite element methods for surface PDEs

(2013) Gerhard Dziuk et al.   ACTA NUMERICA

Optimal navigation in planar time-varying flow: Zermelo’s problem revisited

(2011) Laszlo Techy   Intelligent Service Robotics

Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets

(2010) István Lagzi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Magnetically Actuated Colloidal Microswimmers

(2008) Pietro Tierno et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B