The popular science exhibition [ai] explore presents visualizations of engineering problems from the field of civil engineering, as well as some computationally challenging scientific research examples. The visualization was created using the mathematical algorithm HEDAC, and the exhibits show the process by which the algorithm learns, learns about objects, and explores their shape. The algorithm successfully explores and reproduces real works of art.
You can experience the popular science exhibition [ai] explore in several ways: Walk through the exhibition and enjoy beautiful paintings, walk through the exhibition and try to figure out what engineering problems they show, walk through the exhibition and try to figure out how the mathematical algorithm that painted the pictures works,… the QR code hides the answers to all your questions and an expert explanation of the exhibits.
The exhibits were created in an interdisciplinary collaboration between staff from the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Rijeka, and we hope that you will enjoy the exhibition at least as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Authors of the exhibition: Bojan Crnković, Vedrana Mikulić Crnković, Ivona Traunkar (Faculty of Mathematics), Nina Čeh, Edita Papa Dukić (Faculty of Civil Engineering)
About the (Heat Equation Driven Area Coverage) algorithm in the background of the exhibition
In addition to the team of scientists from the University of Rijeka who signed this popular science exhibition, part of the credit also goes to the algorithm used to create the images.
The algorithm is based on the scientific paper Ergodicity-Based Cooperative Multiagent Area Coverage via a Potential Field, whose authors are Bojan Crnković (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Rijeka), Stefan Ivić (Faculty of Technology, University of Rijeka) and Igor Mezić (University of California, Santa Barbara). In the background of the algorithm is a dynamic autonomous system, i.e., a swarm of agents that moves and explores the given domain. The swarm communicates and coordinates its actions through a changing scalar field obtained as a solution of the heat equation on the given domain. The applications of the algorithm are numerous, and we list only some of them: Exploration and search in unknown space, painting, planning of agricultural spraying, scanning of 3D objects,…
The exhibition [ai] explore is organized by the Science Outreach Center of the University of Rijeka in cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Civil Engineering
Preparations for poster printing can be found here.
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The exhibition [ai] explore was realized as part of the project “Reconnect science with the blue society”, contract number 101061595, which is financed from the Framework Program of the European Union for Research and Innovation – Horizon Europe, invites HORIZON MSCA Researchers’ Night 2022-2023.
The exhibition expresses exclusively the views of its authors and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for the use of the information contained therein.
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