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A challenge is to develop cyber-physical system scenarios that reflect the diversity and complexity of real-life cyber-physical systems in the research questions that they address. Time-bounded collaborative events, such as hackathons, jams…

In the domain of unmanned vehicles, autonomous robotic swarms promise to deliver increased efficiency and collective autonomy. How these swarms will operate in the future, and what communication requirements and operational boundaries will…

The biologically-inspired swarm paradigm is being used to design self-organizing systems of locally interacting artificial agents. A major difficulty in designing swarms with desired characteristics is understanding the causal relation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aram Galstyan , Tad Hogg , Kristina Lerman

Swarm robotics has potential for a wide variety of applications, but real-world deployments remain rare due to the difficulty of predicting emergent behaviors arising from simple local interactions. Traditional engineering approaches design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ricardo Vega , Connor Mattson , Kevin Zhu , Daniel S. Brown , Cameron Nowzari

A swarm robotic system consists of a team of robots performing cooperative tasks without any centralized coordination. In principle, swarms enable flexible and scalable solutions; however, designing individual control algorithms that can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Stefan Schupp , Francesco Leofante , Leander Behr , Erika Ábrahám , Armando Taccella

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) facilitate the integration of physical entities and cyber infrastructures through the utilization of pervasive computational resources and communication units, leading to improved efficiency, automation, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Zirui Liao , Jian Shi , Yuwei Zhang , Shaoping Wang , Zhiyong Sun

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) incorporate the complex and large-scale engineered systems behind critical infrastructure operations, such as water distribution networks, energy delivery systems, healthcare services, manufacturing systems, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Charalambos Konstantinou , George Stergiopoulos , Masood Parvania , Paulo Esteves-Verissimo

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are formed through interconnected components capable of computation, communication, sensing and changing the physical world. The development of these systems poses a significant challenge since they have to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Igor Ivkic , Patrizia Sailer , Antonios Gouglidis , Andreas Mauthe , Markus Tauber

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are the conjoining of an entities' physical and computational elements. The development of a typical CPS system follows a sequence from conceptual modeling, testing in simulated (virtual) worlds, testing in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Vijay Gadepally , Ashok Krishnamurthy , Umit Ozguner

The advancement in cyber-physical systems has opened a new way in disaster management and rescue operations. The usage of UAVs is very promising in this context. UAVs, mainly quadcopters, are small in size and their payload capacity is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Arindam Majee , Rahul Saha , Snehasish Roy , Srilekha Mandal , Sayan Chatterjee

Research in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is hampered by the lack of available project environments in which to explore open challenges and to propose and rigorously evaluate solutions. In this "New Ideas and Emerging Results"…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jane Cleland-Huang , Michael Vierhauser , Sean Bayley

Today's distributed and pervasive computing addresses large-scale cyber-physical ecosystems, characterised by dense and large networks of devices capable of computation, communication and interaction with the environment and people. While…

UAV swarms have triggered wide concern due to their potential application values in recent years. While there are studies proposed in terms of the architecture design for UAV swarms, two main challenges still exist: (1) Scalability,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zhihong Liu , Xiangke Wang , Lincheng Shen , Shulong Zhao , Yirui Cong , Jie Li , Dong Yin , Shengde Jia , Xiaojia Xiang

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) often leverage Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques to adapt dynamically to changing environments and optimize performance. However, it is challenging to construct safety cases for RL components. We therefore…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Katherine Dearstyne , Pedro , Alarcon Granadeno , Theodore Chambers , Jane Cleland-Huang

Autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) can improve safety and efficiency for safety-critical applications, but require rigorous testing before deployment. The complexity of these systems often precludes the use of formal verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Anthony Corso , Robert J. Moss , Mark Koren , Ritchie Lee , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Previous works on formally studying mobile robotic swarms consider necessary and sufficient system hypotheses enabling to solve theoretical benchmark problems (geometric pattern formation, gathering, scattering, etc.). We argue that formal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thibaut Balabonski , Pierre Courtieu , Robin Pelle , Lionel Rieg , Sébastien Tixeuil , Xavier Urbain

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have the promise of presenting the next evolution in computing with potential applications that include aerospace, transportation, robotics, and various automation systems. These applications motivate advances…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Ahmed Saeed , Azin Neishaboori , Amr Mohamed , Khaled Harras

Experiments using large numbers of miniature swarm robots are desirable to teach, study, and test multi-robot and swarm intelligence algorithms and their applications. To realize the full potential of a swarm robot, it should be capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Michael Starks , Aryan Gupta , Sanjay Sarma Oruganti Venkata , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Swarm robotic systems are currently being used to address many real-world problems. One interesting application of swarm robotics is the self-organized formation of structures and shapes. Some of the key challenges in the swarm robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yasir R. Darr , Muaz A. Niazi

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