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The research group has had two papers accepted to the 32nd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry this year. The papers explore different aspects of the single step tilt model with robotic motion planning. The papers are as follows: Title: Relocating Units in Robot Swarms with Uniform Control Signals is PSPACE-Complete ...
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A preprint of an upcoming journal paper is now online at arxiv. Title: Hardness of Reconfiguring Robot Swarms with Uniform External Control in Limited Directions. Authors: David Caballero, Angel A. Cantu, Timothy Gomez, Austin Luchsinger, Robert Schweller, and Tim Wylie. Link: arXiv:2003.13097 ...
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On 1/23 at 2pm in room EIEAB 2.208 there will be a 20 minute talk given by current undergraduate student Tim Gomez.  He will be presenting his work, along with coauthors, on robot motion planning with uniform external controls.  The talk will be the talk he gave at the 2020 ...
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The 2nd Hack Research was a great success with some high-quality output and a lot of great participation. We had about 60 students there and over half of the students were part of a submission. The proceedings are now online on the event website: https://utrgv.hackresearch.com/site/?page_id=319. We're looking forward to 2020! ...
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ASARG is hosting the 2nd annual Hack Research (HackR) on December 7-8, 2019. The website with the details and registration is currently live (utrgv.hackresearch.com). Register and come join us for 24 hours of research, learning, and teamwork ...
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The group just had a paper accepted to appear at the 31st ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) in 2020. The title is "Hierarchical Shape Construction and Complexity for Slidable Polyominos under Uniform External Forces" and the authors are Jose Balanza-Martinez, David Caballero, Angel A. Cantu, Mauricio Flores, Timothy Gomez, ...
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