A Hardware Test Bed for Micro-Scale Multi-Agent
Control
Tunaidi AnsariBioengineering, UIUC
UROP 2007
Professor Timothy BretlAerospace Engineering, UIUC
Original Motivator
Images taken from article: Organized Motion Control of a lot of Mircroorganisms Using Visual Feedback, by K. Takahashi, N. Ogawa, H. Oku, and K. Hashimoto.
Selecting the Test Sample
Galvanotaxis: electric field as stimulus. ie. Paramecium caudatum
Phototaxis: light as stimulus.ie. Euglena gracilis
Magnetotaxis: magnetic field as stimulus.ie. Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum
Chemotaxis: chemicals as stimulus.ie. Escherichia coli