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Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots. While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to obtain robust and efficient self-organized behaviors for robot…

This work presents a novel, inference-based approach to the distributed and cooperative flocking control of aerial robot swarms. The proposed method stems from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) dynamics by limiting the latent set to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Malintha Fernando

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

In this paper we study multi robot cooperative task allocation issue in a situation where a swarm of robots is deployed in a confined unknown environment where the number of colored spots which represent tasks and the ratios of them are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Aryo Jamshidpey , Mohsen Afsharchi

We propose a decentralized algorithm to collaboratively transport arbitrarily shaped objects using a swarm of robots. Our approach starts with a task allocation phase that sequentially distributes locations around the object to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Vivek Shankar Vardharajan , Karthik Soma , Giovanni Beltrame

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…

In this work, we investigate swarm self-clustering, where robots autonomously organize into spatially coherent groups using only local sensing and decision-making, without external commands, global positioning, or inter-robot communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sweksha Jain , Rugved Katole , Leena Vachhani

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…

Robot swarms often exhibit emergent behaviors that are fascinating to observe; however, it is often difficult to predict what swarm behaviors can emerge under a given set of agent capabilities. We seek to efficiently leverage human input to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Connor Mattson , Daniel S. Brown

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

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

Robot swarms require cohesive collective behaviour to address diverse challenges, including shape formation and decision-making. Existing approaches often treat consensus in discrete and continuous decision spaces as distinct problems. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Aalok Patwardhan , Andrew J. Davison

Swarm robotic systems are mainly inspired by swarms of socials insects and the collective emergent behavior that arises from their cooperation at the lower lever. Despite the limited sensory ability, computational power, and communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Wesam Elshamy

We study the problem of determining the emergent behaviors that are possible given a functionally heterogeneous swarm of robots with limited capabilities. Prior work has considered behavior search for homogeneous swarms and proposed the use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Connor Mattson , Jeremy C. Clark , Daniel S. Brown

We propose a Self-Regulated Swarm (SRS) algorithm which hybridizes the advantageous characteristics of Swarm Intelligence as the emergence of a societal environmental memory or cognitive map via collective pheromone laying in the landscape…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Carlos Fernandes , Agostinho C. Rosa

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

Modern cities are growing ecosystems that face new challenges due to the increasing population demands. One of the many problems they face nowadays is waste management, which has become a pressing issue requiring new solutions. Swarm…

Designing controllers for robot swarms is challenging, because human developers have typically no good understanding of the link between the details of a controller that governs individual robots and the swarm behavior that is an indirect…

Coordinated collective motion in bird flocks and fish schools inspires algorithms for cohesive swarm robotics. This paper presents a position-based flocking model that achieves persistent velocity alignment without velocity sensing. By…

Robot swarms offer significant potential for inspecting diverse infrastructure, ranging from bridges to space stations. However, effective inspection requires accurate robot localization, which demands substantial computational resources…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Sneha Ramshanker , Hungtang Ko , Radhika Nagpal