PhDSupervision:Dhananjay Ipparthi/Table of contents

Table of content of thesis

The literature review section of my rapport d'avancement covers about 60% of work that I will cover in my doctoral thesis

SWARM2015 conference paper presents initial findings of yield predictions [published]
Extended yield predictions journal paper [not yet published. submission deadline: 5th June, 2016]

TODO: Tune the magnetism of the components such that the fully formed target structures are stable, but substructures are susceptible to breakage

Massimo suggested, and I agree, that I write an "approaches to the yield predictions" paper. In that paper, I would include the aforementioned approaches. [submission deadline: ??]

Nicolas has developed visual tracking system and used it to find:
- Time evolution of aggregation
- Distance distribution
- Velocity distribution
Collaboration with Korean Institute of Science and Technology [Leon Abelmann, Tijmen Hageman, etc.]
- Found the different energy regimes for our aggregating system
- Established that outside the ballistic regime, the components perform "random walk"
  - The data neatly fits into a Rayleigh distribution
TODO: Get new camera, re-analyse data
TODO: Write a "methodology" style paper [submission deadline:?]

Contribution 1: Theoretical analysis of parallel assembly vis-a-vis the incompatible substructure problem
Contribution 2: 5 approaches to avoid the incompatible substructure problem
Contribution 3: Study of the dynamics of aggregation / parallel assembly