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We present a new version of our previously proposed algorithm enabling a swarm of robots to construct a desired shape from objects in the plane. We also describe a hardware realization for this system which makes use of simple and readily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Andrew Vardy , Dalia S. Ibrahim

Microrobotics has the potential to revolutionize many applications including targeted material delivery, assembly, and surgery. The same properties that promise breakthrough solutions---small size and large populations---present unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Shiva Shahrokhi , Lillian Lin , Chris Ertel , Mable Wan , Aaron T. Becker

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

Swarms are highly robust systems that offer unique benefits compared to their alternatives. In this work, we propose a bio-inspired and artificial potential field-driven robot swarm control method, where the swarm formation dynamics are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Malintha Fernando , Lantao Liu

Swarm robotics is a creative method of organizing multi-robot structures, consisting of many basic robots influenced by communal insects. The greatest astonishing attribute of swarm robots is their capacity to function together to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

Collective animal behaviors are paradigmatic examples of fully decentralized operations involving complex collective computations such as collective turns in flocks of birds or collective harvesting by ants. These systems offer a unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jabez Leong Kit , David Mateo , Roland Bouffanais

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 robots, inspired by the emergence of animal herds, are robots that assemble a large number of modules and self-organize themselves to form specific morphologies and exhibit specific functions. These modular robots perform relatively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Takeshi Ishida

This study presents an internalized morphogenesis model for autonomous systems, such as swarm robotics and micro-nanomachines, that eliminates the need for external spatial computation. Traditional self-organizing models often require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Takeshi Ishida

Imagine a "machine" where there is no pre-commitment to any particular representational scheme: the desired behaviour is distributed and roughly specified simultaneously among many parts, but there is minimal specification of the mechanism…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos

Inspired by biological swarms, robotic swarms are envisioned to solve real-world problems that are difficult for individual agents. Biological swarms can achieve collective intelligence based on local interactions and simple rules; however,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Qiyang Li , Xintong Du , Yizhou Huang , Quinlan Sykora , Angela P. Schoellig

The emerging field of morphogenetic engineering proposes to design complex heterogeneous system focused on the paradigm of emergence. Necessarily at the interface of disciplines, its concepts can be defined through multiple viewpoints. This…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Juste Raimbault

Most existing swarm pattern formation methods depend on a predefined gene regulatory network (GRN) structure that requires designers' priori knowledge, which is difficult to adapt to complex and changeable environments. To dynamically adapt…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Zhun Fan , Zhaojun Wang , Xiaomin Zhu , Bingliang Hu , Anmin Zou , Dongwei Bao

Due to its decentralised, distributed and scalable nature, swarm robotics has great potential for applications ranging from agriculture to environmental monitoring and logistics. Various swarm control methods and algorithms are currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Eduard Heiss , Andrey Kozyr , Oleg Morozov

Social insects in nature such as ants, termites and bees construct their colonies collaboratively in a very efficient process. In these swarms, each insect contributes to the construction task individually showing redundant and parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Teshan Liyanage , Subha Fernando

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown remarkable reasoning abilities. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on fixed roles or centralized control, limiting scalability and adaptability in long-horizon reasoning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ruohao Li , Hongjun Liu , Leyi Zhao , Zisu Li , Jiawei Li , Jiajun Jiang , Linning Xu , Chen Zhao , Mingming Fan , Chen Liang

Principle of Swarm Intelligence has recently found widespread application in formation control and automated tracking by the automated multi-agent system. This article proposes an elegant and effective method inspired by foraging dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Debdipta Goswami , Chiranjib Saha , Kunal Pal , Swagatam Das

In this paper, we propose applying semantic embedding to learn the range of behaviors exhibited by molecular swarms, thereby providing a richer set of features to optimize such systems. Specifically, we consider a standard molecular swarm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tom Bachard , Gong Yiming , Ibuki Kawamata , Akira Kakugo , Nathanael Aubert-Kato

In this paper, we introduce Hebbian learning as a novel method for swarm robotics, enabling the automatic emergence of heterogeneity. Hebbian learning presents a biologically inspired form of neural adaptation that solely relies on local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Fuda van Diggelen , Tugay Alperen Karagüzel , Andres Garcia Rincon , A. E. Eiben , Dario Floreano , Eliseo Ferrante

In swarm intelligence, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE) have been successfully applied in many optimization tasks, and a large number of variants, where novel algorithm operators or components are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Rick Boks , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck