Publications

Preprints/Working Papers

Circulatory networks enable efficient distributed learning
Ana Pervan, Jamison Weber, Karalyn Baird, Thomas A. Berrueta, Matthew Elwin, Andrea W. Richa, and Todd D. Murphey
In Review, 2023.

Journal Papers

Colloidal Robots
Albert Tianxiang Liu, Marek Hempel, Jing Fan Yang, Allan M Brooks, Ana Pervan, Volodymyr B. Koman, Ge Zhang, Daichi Kozawa, Sungyun Yang, Daniel I Goldman, Marc Z Miskin, Andréa W Richa, Dana Randall, Todd D. Murphey, Tomás Palacios, and Michael S. Strano
Nature Materials, 2023.

Algorithmic Design for Embodied Intelligence in Synthetic Cells
Ana Pervan and Todd D. Murphey
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2020.

A robot made of robots: emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble
William Savoie, Thomas A. Berrueta, Zachary Jackson, Ana Pervan, Ross Warkentin, Shengkai Li, Todd D. Murphey, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Daniel I. Goldman
Science Robotics, vol. 4, no. 34, 2019.

Dynamical system segmentation for information measures in motion
Thomas A. Berrueta, Ana Pervan, Kathleen Fitzsimons, and Todd D. Murphey
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019.

Conference Papers

Bayesian Particles on Cyclic Graphs
Ana Pervan and Todd D. Murphey
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.

Autoperforation of Two-Dimensional Materials to Generate Colloidal State Machines Capable of Locomotion
Albert Tianxiang Liu, Jing Fan Yang, Lexy N. LeMar, Ge Zhang, Ana Pervan, Todd D. Murphey, and Michael Strano
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020.

Information Requirements of Collision-Based Micromanipulation
Ana Pervan*, Alexandra Q. Nilles*, Thomas A. Berrueta*, Todd D. Murphey, and Steven M. LaValle
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2020.

Low complexity control policy synthesis for cyber-free robot design
Ana Pervan and Todd D. Murphey
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2018.

Book Chapters

Algorithmic Materials: Embedding Computation within Material Properties for Autonomy
Ana Pervan and Todd D. Murphey
Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms: Advances in Materials and Manufacturing, Elsevier, 2018. Eds. M. Strano and S. Walsh.

Master's Thesis

Low complexity control policy synthesis for embodied computation in micro-state machines
Ana Pervan
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. September 2018.

Unrefereed Papers

Corralling Active Brownian Particles With "Active Billiard" Particles
Alexandra Q. Nilles, Ana Pervan, Thomas A. Berrueta, and Todd D. Murphey
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2020.

Towards Robust Motion Planning for Synthetic Cells in a Circulatory System
Thomas A. Berrueta, Ana Pervan, and Todd D. Murphey
Workshop on Robust Task and Motion Planning at Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, 2019.