{"id":2,"date":"2012-04-26T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:45:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Autonomous Collective Systems Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Our research focuses on the modeling and analysis of behaviors in both&nbsp;<strong>biological and engineered collectives&nbsp;<\/strong>and the design and validation of scalable control strategies for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>multi-robot systems<\/b>.&nbsp; The main goals of our research are to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Develop control frameworks for designing robot behaviors that provably produce target collective behaviors;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\">Elucidate the mechanisms of&nbsp;self-organization in nature and translate them into robust strategies for robots.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\">Our<strong>&nbsp;interdisciplinary approach&nbsp;<\/strong>to research is enabled by the diversity of the lab members&#8217; academic backgrounds, including mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering; robotics and mechatronics; mathematics and physics; and computer science.&nbsp; The lab is under the direction of <strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/springberman\">Prof. Spring Berman<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-1536x299.png 1536w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2025\/03\/ACS-Lab-Mar-2025-and-Dec-2023-2048x399.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" data-id=\"1352\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/Lab-MoonCarpet-Oct19-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"ACS Lab group photo from 2018. Camera overhead looking down on lab members holding various robots.\" class=\"wp-image-1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/Lab-MoonCarpet-Oct19-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/Lab-MoonCarpet-Oct19-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/Lab-MoonCarpet-Oct19-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/Lab-MoonCarpet-Oct19-624x445.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"452\" data-id=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/02\/SEMTE-Berman-Lab-Nov2015C-1024x452.jpg\" alt=\"ACS Lab group photo from 2015. Multiple seated around a table full of small robots\" class=\"wp-image-632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/02\/SEMTE-Berman-Lab-Nov2015C-1024x452.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/02\/SEMTE-Berman-Lab-Nov2015C-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" data-id=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Feb262015-1024x506.jpg\" alt=\"ACS Lab group photo from 2015\" class=\"wp-image-496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Feb262015-1024x506.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Feb262015-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" data-id=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Aug292013_Cropped-e1378679972581-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"ACS Lab group photo from 2013\" class=\"wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Aug292013_Cropped-e1378679972581-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Aug292013_Cropped-e1378679972581-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/04\/ACSLab_Aug292013_Cropped-e1378679972581.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Our research focuses on the modeling and analysis of behaviors in both&nbsp;biological and engineered collectives&nbsp;and the design and validation of scalable control strategies for multi-robot systems.&nbsp; The main goals of our research are to: Our&nbsp;interdisciplinary approach&nbsp;to research is enabled by the diversity of the lab members&#8217; academic backgrounds, including mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering; robotics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}