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Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the individual robots. Automatic design has concentrated on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 David Garzón Ramos , Mauro Birattari

Collective behaviors such as swarming and flocking emerge from simple, decentralized interactions in biological systems. Existing models, such as Vicsek and Cucker-Smale, lack collision avoidance, whereas the Olfati-Saber model imposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hossein B. Jond

Swarm robotics is the study of how a large number of relatively simple robots can be designed so that a desired collective behaviour emerges from the local interactions among robots and between the robots and their environment. While many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Liqun Chen , Siaw-Lynn Ng

When individual robots have limited sensing capabilities or insufficient fault tolerance, it becomes necessary for multiple robots to form teams during exploration, thereby increasing the collective observation range and reliability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hiroaki Kawashima , Shun Ikejima , Takeshi Takai , Mikita Miyaguchi , Yasuharu Kunii

In collective robotic systems, the automatic generation of controllers for complex tasks is still a challenging problem. Open-ended evolution of complex robot behaviors can be a possible solution whereby an intrinsic driver for pattern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tanja Katharina Kaiser , Heiko Hamann

Swarm foraging is a common test case application for multi-robot systems. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for controlling swarm robots with limited communication range and storage capacity to efficiently search for and retrieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Simon O. Obute , Mehmet R. Dogar , Jordan H. Boyle

Modern unmanned systems, including aerial, terrestrial, and underwater vehicles, are increasingly utilized in dynamic and unpredictable environments, where the presence of modeling uncertainties necessitates the development of robust and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Maryam Norouzi , Mingxi Zhou , Chengzhi Yuan

The limited energy capacity of individual robotic agents in a swarm often limits the possible cooperative tasks they can perform. In this work, we investigate the problem of covering an unknown connected grid environment (e.g. a maze or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Michael Amir , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Recent advances in multi-agent systems manipulation have demonstrated a rising demand for the implementation of multi-UAV systems in urban areas which are always subjected to the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. The focus of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Sharif , Yaser Banad

Swarming systems, such as drone fleets and robotic teams, exhibit complex dynamics driven by both individual behaviors and emergent group-level interactions. Unlike traditional multi-agent domains such as pedestrian crowds or traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minah Lee , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

In this short note we propose using agentic swarms of virtual labs as a model of an AI Science Community. In this paradigm, each particle in the swarm represents a complete virtual laboratory instance, enabling collective scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ulisses Braga-Neto

Swarm robotics has experienced a rapid expansion in recent years, primarily fueled by specialized multi-robot systems developed to achieve dedicated collective actions. These specialized platforms are in general designed with swarming…

Two fundamental problems of distributed computing are Gathering and Arbitrary pattern formation (\textsc{Apf}). These two tasks are different in nature as in gathering robots meet at a point but in \textsc{Apf} robots form a fixed pattern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Satakshi Ghosh , Avisek Sharma , Pritam Goswami , Buddhadeb Sau

We propose a new kind of collective motion where swarms of simple agents are able to find and fix the solution of two-dimensional mazes. The model consists of active memoryless particles interacting exclusively via short-ranged perception…

An important goal for swarming research is to create methods for predicting, controlling and designing swarms, which produce collective dynamics that solve a problem through emergent and stable pattern formation, without the need for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-17 Jason Hindes , George Stantchev , Klimka Szwaykowska Kasraie , Ira B. Schwartz

Most of the existing formation algorithms for multiagent systems are fully label-specified, i.e., the desired position for each agent in the formation is uniquely determined by its label, which would inevitably make the formation algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-28 He Cai , Shuping Guo , Yuheng He , Jieyi Yan , Yingnan Zhen , Huanli Gao , Xiangyang Li

In this paper, the main aim is to exhibit swarm intelligence power in cloud based scenario. Heterogeneous environment has been configured at server-side network of the whole cloud network. In the proposed system, different types of servers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-08 Anirban Kundu , Chunlin Ji

This paper proposes an Active Inference-based framework for autonomous trajectory design in UAV swarms. The method integrates probabilistic reasoning and self-learning to enable distributed mission allocation, route ordering, and motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaleem Arshid , Ali Krayani , Lucio Marcenaro , David Martin Gomez , Carlo Regazzoni

We consider the problem of completely covering an unknown discrete environment with a swarm of asynchronous, frequently-crashing autonomous mobile robots. We represent the environment by a discrete graph, and task the robots with occupying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Michael Amir , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Collective behaviours often need to be expressed through numerical features, e.g., for classification or imitation learning. This problem is often addressed by proposing an ad-hoc feature set for a particular swarm behaviour context,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 André Fialho Jesus , Jonas Kuckling