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From fireflies to drones: UNM researchers uncover strategy for synchronization efficiency
October 30, 2024 - Carly Bowling
Researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering looked to the natural world to explain how synchronized systems can work more efficiently and made a significant discovery. Their results were published last week in the journal Nature Communications.
Francesco Sorrentino, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Amirhossein Nazerian, Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, explored the mathematics of synchronization and uncovered that biological systems use different, distinct stages during oscillation to work more efficiently. The results are described in a publication titled “The efficiency of synchronization dynamics and the role of network syncreactivity.”