Ana Pervan
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Todd Murphey
anapervan@u.northwestern.edu
anapervan.github.io
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Research
I am interested in algorithmic design of robots for embodied intelligence and methodologies for autonomously identifying and exploiting emergence in collective systems.
Projects
Algorithmic Matter and Emergent Computation
Education
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2018
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2016
Awards and Honors
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Teaching
TA for Active Learning in Robotics (ME 495), Spring 2019
Other Interests
Traveling and painting
Publications
Algorithmic Design for Embodied Intelligence in Synthetic Cells
A. Pervan and T. D. Murphey
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2020. PDF
Bayesian Particles on Cyclic Graphs
A. Pervan and T. D. Murphey
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. PDF
Autoperforation of Two-Dimensional Materials to Generate Colloidal State Machines Capable of Locomotion
A. T. Liu, J. F. Yang, L. N. LeMar, G. Zhang, A. Pervan, T. D. Murphey, M. Strano
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020. PDF
Information Requirements of Collision-Based Micromanipulation
A. Q. Nilles, A. Pervan, T. A. Berrueta, T. D. Murphey, S. M. LaValle
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2020. PDF
A robot made of robots: emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble
W. Savoie, T. A. Berrueta, Z. Jackson, A. Pervan, R. Warkentin, S. Li, T. D. Murphey, K. Wiesenfeld, and D. I. Goldman
Science Robotics, vol. 4, no. 34, 2019. Paper
Dynamical system segmentation for information measures in motion
T. Berrueta, A. Pervan, K. Fitzsimons, and T. D. Murphey
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 169–176, 2019. PDF
Low complexity control policy synthesis for cyber-free robot design
A. Pervan and T. D. Murphey
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2018. PDF
Algorithmic Materials: Embedding Computation within Material Properties for Autonomy
A. Pervan and T. D. Murphey
Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms: Advances in Materials and Manufacturing, Elsevier, 2018. Eds. M. Strano and S. Walsh. PDF