Most studies in swarm robotics treat the swarm as an isolated system of interest. We argue that the prevailing view of swarms as self-sufficient, independent systems limits the scope of potential applications for swarm robotics. A robot swarm could act as a support in an heterogeneous system comprising other robots and/or human operators, in particular by quickly providing access to a large amount of data acquired in large unknown environments. Tasks such as target identification & tracking, scouting, or monitoring/surveillance could benefit from this approach.
@article{arxiv.2405.04079,
title = {Leveraging swarm capabilities to assist other systems},
author = {Miquel Kegeleirs and David Garzón Ramos and Guillermo Legarda Herranz and Ilyes Gharbi and Jeanne Szpirer and Ken Hasselmann and Lorenzo Garattoni and Gianpiero Francesca and Mauro Birattari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04079},
year = {2024}
}
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Presented at the "Breaking swarm stereotypes" workshop at ICRA 2024