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One popular example of metaheuristic algorithms from the swarm intelligence family is the Bat algorithm (BA). The algorithm was first presented in 2010 by Yang and quickly demonstrated its efficiency in comparison with other common…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Tarik A. Rashid , Chra I. Shekho Toghramchi , Heja Sindi , Abeer Alsadoon , Nebojsa Bacanin , Shahla U. Umar , A. S. Shamsaldin , Mokhtar Mohammadi

This paper address the challenges encountered by developers when deploying a distributed decision-making behavior on heterogeneous robotic systems. Many applications benefit from the use of multiple robots, but their scalability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-25 David St-Onge , Vivek Shankar Varadharajan , Guannan Li , Ivan Svogor , Giovanni Beltrame

Astrobots are robotic artifacts whose swarms are used in astrophysical studies to generate the map of the observable universe. These swarms have to be coordinated with respect to various desired observations. Such coordination are so…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Matin Macktoobian , Francesco Basciani , Denis Gillet , Jean-Paul Kneib

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

Among the available solutions for drone swarm simulations, we identified a gap in simulation frameworks that allow easy algorithms prototyping, tuning, debugging and performance analysis, and do not require the user to interface with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Enrica Soria , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

Satellite swarms have recently gained attention in the space industry due to their ability to provide extremely narrow beamwidths at a lower cost than single satellite systems. This paper proposes a concept for a satellite swarm using a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Juan A. Vásquez-Peralvo , Juan Carlos Merlano Duncan , Geoffrey Eappen , Symeon Chatzinotas

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are considered as a promising technique for next-generation communication networks due to their flexibility, mobility, low cost, and the ability to collaboratively and autonomously provide services.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yahao Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

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

The popularity of drones is rapidly increasing across the different sectors of the economy. Aerial capabilities and relatively low costs make drones the perfect solution to improve the efficiency of those operations that are typically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Leandro R. Costa , Daniel Aloise , Luca G. Gianoli , Andrea Lodi

This paper summarizes in depth the state of the art of aerial swarms, covering both classical and new reinforcement-learning-based approaches for their management. Then, it proposes a hybrid AI system, integrating deep reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Raúl Arranz , David Carramiñana , Gonzalo de Miguel , Juan A. Besada , Ana M. Bernardos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm enabled edge computing is envisioned to be promising in the sixth generation wireless communication networks due to their wide application sensories and flexible deployment. However, most of the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Baoyun Wang , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Rose Qingyang Hu

This paper introduces a testbed to study distributed sensing problems of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibiting swarm intelligence. Several Smart City applications, such as transport and disaster response, require efficient collection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Chuhao Qin , Fethi Candan , Lyudmila S. Mihaylova , Evangelos Pournaras

We present an approach to the distributed storage of data across a swarm of mobile robots that forms a shared global memory. We assume that external storage infrastructure is absent, and that each robot is capable of devoting a quota of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nathalie Majcherczyk , Carlo Pinciroli

Neural networks (NNs) are known for their high predictive accuracy in complex learning problems. Beside practical advantages, NNs also indicate favourable theoretical properties such as universal approximation (UA) theorems. Binarized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Mikail Yayla , Mario Günzel , Burim Ramosaj , Jian-Jia Chen

Swarm robotic systems are systems in which multiple robots having simple functionality perform tasks through their cooperation, and are advantageous in that they can exhibit non-trivial macroscopic functions such as adaptability, fault…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Takeshi Kano , Naoki matsui , Eiichi Naito , Takenobu Aoshima , Akio Ishiguro

The multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing problem is considered here, in which $N$ servers help to compute the real-valued functions requested by $K$ users, where each function can be written as a linear combination of up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ali Khalesi , Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris , Petros Elia

Collective decision-making is an essential capability of large-scale multi-robot systems to establish autonomy on the swarm level. A large portion of literature on collective decision-making in swarm robotics focuses on discrete decisions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Mohsen Raoufi , Pawel Romanczuk , Heiko Hamann

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful computational approach for studying complex biological and biomedical systems, yet its widespread use remains limited by significant computational demands. As models become increasingly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-17 Kerri-Ann Norton , Daniel Bergman , Harsh Vardhan Jain , Trachette Jackson

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