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Swarm robotic systems utilize collective behaviour to achieve goals that might be too complex for a lone entity, but become attainable with localized communication and collective decision making. In this paper, a behaviour-based distributed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Akshaya C S , Karthik Soma , Visweswaran B , Aditya Ravichander , Venkata Nagarjun PM

We present a distributed algorithm for a swarm of active particles to camouflage in an environment. Each particle is equipped with sensing, computation and communication, allowing the system to take color and gradient information from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Yang Li , John Klingner , Nikolaus Correll

The increasing complexity of marine operations has intensified the need for intelligent robotic systems to support ocean observation, exploration, and resource management. Underwater swarm robotics offers a promising framework that extends…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shyalan Ramesh , Scott Mann , Alex Stumpf

Swarm systems consist of large numbers of robots that collaborate autonomously. With an appropriate level of human control, swarm systems could be applied in a variety of contexts ranging from search-and-rescue situations to Cyber defence.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Aya Hussein , Leo Ghignone , Tung Nguyen , Nima Salimi , Hung Nguyen , Min Wang , Hussein A. Abbass

The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to sophisticated problems. The concept of swarming, inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nathan K Long , Karl Sammut , Daniel Sgarioto , Matthew Garratt , Hussein Abbass

Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior emerging in systems with locally interacting components. Because of their self-organization capabilities, swarm-based systems show essential properties for handling real-world problems such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Marcos Oliveira , Diego Pinheiro , Mariana Macedo , Carmelo Bastos-Filho , Ronaldo Menezes

Swarm behaviour engineering is an area of research that seeks to investigate methods and techniques for coordinating computation and action within groups of simple agents to achieve complex global goals like pattern formation, collective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Gianluca Aguzzi , Roberto Casadei , Mirko Viroli

This paper introduce a software system including widely-used Swarm Intelligence algorithms or approaches to be used for the related scientific research studies associated with the subject area. The programmatic infrastructure of the system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Utku Kose

In this paper, we extended previous studies of cooperating autonomous robots to include situations when environmental changes and changes in the number of robots in the swarm can affect the efficiency to execute tasks assigned to the swarm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Bogdan Czejdo , Wiktor B. Daszczuk , Waldemar Grabski , Sambit Bhattacharya

In this paper, we consider the problem of collectively exploring unknown and dynamic environments with a decentralized heterogeneous multi-robot system consisting of multiple units of two variants of a miniature robot. The first variant-a…

Cyborg insects refer to hybrid robots that integrate living insects with miniature electronic controllers to enable robotic-like programmable control. These creatures exhibit advantages over conventional robots in adaption to complex…

Robot swarms offer inherent robustness and the capacity to execute complex, collaborative tasks surpassing the capabilities of single-agent systems. Co-designing these systems is critical, as marginal improvements in individual performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andrew Wilhelm , Josie Hughes

Swarm protocols are a recently introduced formalism for specifying, implementing, and verifying peer-to-peer systems called swarms. A swarm consists of distributed agents called machines that communicate by asynchronous event propagation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Florian Furbach , Lucas Clorius , Roland Kuhn , Hernán Melgratti , Alceste Scalas , Emilio Tuosto

Robotic swarms are decentralized multi-robot systems whose members use local information from proximal neighbors to execute simple reactive control laws that result in emergent collective behaviors. In contrast, members of a general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Gabriel Arpino , Kyle Morris , Sasanka Nagavalli , Katia Sycara

We present a system to coordinate 'urban mobility swarms' in order to promote the use and safety of lightweight, sustainable transit, while enhancing the vibrancy and community fabric of cities. This work draws from behavior exhibited by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alex Berke , Jason Nawyn , Thomas Sanchez Lengeling , Kent Larson

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

Swarm perception refers to the ability of a robot swarm to utilize the perception capabilities of each individual robot, forming a collective understanding of the environment. Their distributed nature enables robot swarms to continuously…

This paper presents a novel approach that allows a swarm of heterogeneous robots to produce simultaneously segregative and flocking behaviors using only local sensing. These behaviors have been widely studied in swarm robotics and their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Paulo Rezeck , Renato M. Assuncao , Luiz Chaimowicz

The development of collective-aware multi-robot systems is crucial for enhancing the efficiency and robustness of robotic applications in multiple fields. These systems enable collaboration, coordination, and resource sharing among robots,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas , David Perez-Saura , Ricardo Sanz , Martin Molina , Pascual Campoy

The current state of electronic component miniaturization coupled with the increasing efficiency in hardware and software allow the development of smaller and compact robotic systems. The convenience of using these small, simple, yet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Paulo Rezeck , Hector Azpurua , Mauricio FS Correa , Luiz Chaimowicz