The Association for Computing Machinery last month announced it has named 95 members ACM Fellows, among whom are more than a dozen Indian Americans.
The Fellows were chosen for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas, according to an ACM news release.
Among the nearly 100 Fellows are Srinivas Aluru, Suman Banerjee, Nachiappan Nagappan, Radhika Nagpal, Anantha Chandrakasan, Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Moses Charikar, Prakash Panangaden, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Manish Parashar, Keshab K. Parhi, Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia, Sanjay Ghemawat, Amit Sheth, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Ravi Kumar.
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Engineers at Harvard University have developed a school of seven robot fish that can swim in circles without crashing into one another. The robot fish can swim in real-time just like real fishes..
Previously, researchers have tried to make robots coordinate themselves in water but have failed. Recently, a team of researchers from Harvard University has succeeded in developing a swarm of robotic fish that can swim without crashing into one another.
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The engineers developed swarms of robotic fish that coordinate their movement through a centralized computer. The computer gives them directions on where they should go in the form of GPS coordinates.
Chris Burns - Jan 15, 2021, 2:53pm CST
A swarm robotic fish donned the cover of Science Robotics this week courtesy of researchers from Harvard University. Florian Berlinger, Melvin Gauchi, and Radhika Nagpal delivered a paper on “Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm.” These little robots are very, very cute, too.
The 3D underwater robot collective in this research is called Blueswarm. The robots are called Bluebots. Each Bluebot works with 3D visual perception and gets around with “autonomous 3D multifin locomotion.”
This robot works with one caudal fin, two pectoral fins, and a dorsal fin. The dorsal fin handles vertical diving for depth control, while the other three fins work to enable “nearly independent forward and turning motions.”
Harvard University experts created the fish-inspired bots to work without any external control, mimicking the collective behaviours groups of fish demonstrate.