PhDSupervision:Dhananjay Ipparthi

Personal Information

Name: Dhananjay Ipparthi

Date of arrival in Brussels: 08th February, 2012

Home address: Rue des Vierges 58, 1000 Bruxelles

Telephone number: +32 483 382 207

Milestones

• Three papers
• Thesis

Papers in progress

• Review of macroscale parallel self-assembling systems
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Marco Dorigo and Massimo Mastrangeli.
  • Target journal: Micromachines: Special Issue on Building by Self-Assembly
  • Synopsis: An in-depth review of macroscale parallel self-assembling systems. Summaries, categorisations and differentiations of the various works till date. Provide open problems.
  • Project page: Parallel self-assembling systems review paper

• A Study of Yield Predictions for a Model of Homogeneous Self-Assembling Components: extended version
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Andrew Winslow, Massimo Mastrangeli, and Marco Dorigo.
  • Target journal: Artificial Life and Robotics Special Issue
  • Synopsis: Statistics to compare model and physical experiments. A closed form model for the formation of incompatible substructures??
  • Project page: Theory of incompatible substructure problem

• Experiments to validate: incompatible substructures model and growth of incompatible substructures
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Nicolas Cambier, Andrew Winslow, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target journal:
  • Synopsis: Study of how the incompatible substructures are formed, how the grow and a summary of possible ways to eliminate the problem.
  • Project page:

• Impact of different modes of shaking on a self-assembling system
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Nicolas Cambier, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target conference:
  • Synopsis: Impact of different modes of shaking on a self-assembling system: orbitatl, linear, orbital + linear with kicks (random)
  • Project page: Different modes of shaking

• Aperiodic breaking up of substructures
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target conference:
  • Synopsis: Study of how high inertia objects can be used to reduce the formation of incompatible substructures.
  • Project page: Use of a external agent to break incompatible substructures

• Conformational switching
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target journal: Artificial Life
  • Synopsis: Presentation of a purely mechanical conformational switching mechanism used for self-assembly.
  • Project page: Conformational Switching

Academic Activities

10th March - 3rd September, 2015

• SWARM2015 paper submitted on: 25th May, 2015.
• Tracking of components in a self-assembling system preliminary thesis submitted by Nicolas on: 28th May, 2015.
• Theoretical Computer Science paper submitted on: 12th August, 2015.
• Camera ready version of SWARM2015 paper submitted on: 1st September, 2015.

2nd March - 9th March, 2015

• WBI Application submitted on 3rd March, 2015.
• Master student Nicolas starts today.
  • I've set up a git repo for the TrackingOfSelfAssembly project. Nicolas, Marco, you and I have access to this repo.
  • His immediate deliverable to the university is a state of the art section as well as a brief project proposal.
  • Thus far he has setup OpenCV. He is able to capture image stream and store the frames sequentially.
  • His next steps will be to detect blobs, and then tracking using frame differencing.

• Towards our work with Andrew
  • In depth lit review to see if the work we propose has already been done.
  • Write out outline: relevant literature, physical experiment set up, experiment procedure, analytical model, discussion

• Try out new lead pellets for conformational switching experiments

• Clean up shared Dropbox folder, svn up all changes.