India’s Emergent Urban Formations

Robot Formations as an Emergent Collective Task using

Robot formations imply the establishment and the maintenance of a predetermined geometric shape by a group of robots. In this work, we achieve formations using robots with proximity sensors of short detection range and no inter-robot communication equipment. This fact turns the synthesis problem into a hard one compared to those cases where the robot has information about the absolute location ...

Simulating Emergent Urban Form: Desakota in China

We propose that the emergent phenomenon know as “desakota”, the rapid urbanization of densely populated rural populations in the newly developed world, particularly China, can be simulated using agent-based models which combine both local and global features. We argue that deskota represents a surprising and unusual form of urbanization wellmatched to processes of land development that are driv...

Robot Formations as an Emergent Collective Task using Target-following Behavior

Robot formations imply the establishment and the maintenance of a predetermined geometric shape by a group of robots. In this work, we achieve formations using robots with proximity sensors of short detection range and no inter-robot communication equipment. This fact turns the synthesis problem into a hard one compared to those cases where the robot has information about the absolute location ...

Crisis In/Out, Emergent, and Adaptive Urban Organisms

This paper focuses on the questions raised through the work of Unit 5: ‘In/Out Crisis, emergent and adaptive’; an architectural research-based studio at [ARC] University of Nicosia. Students were asked to delve into state of Art Technologies in order to propose sustainable Emergent and Adaptive Architectures and Urbanities, the resulting unprecedented spatial conditions and atmospheres of the e...

Indias last bastion of polio at "tipping point".