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Past experiences under the designation of "Swarm Paintings" conducted in 2001, not only confirmed the possibility of realizing an artificial art (thus non-human), as introduced into the process the questioning of creative migration,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos

When individual robots have limited sensing capabilities or insufficient fault tolerance, it becomes necessary for multiple robots to form teams during exploration, thereby increasing the collective observation range and reliability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hiroaki Kawashima , Shun Ikejima , Takeshi Takai , Mikita Miyaguchi , Yasuharu Kunii

Controlling sensori-motor systems in higher animals or complex robots is a challenging combinatorial problem, because many sensory signals need to be simultaneously coordinated into a broad behavioural spectrum. To rapidly interact with the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-05-10 Silke Steingrube , Marc Timme , Florentin Woergoetter , Poramate Manoonpong

We present a method for the control of robot swarms using two subsets of robots: a larger group of simple, oblivious robots (which we call the workers) that is governed by simple local attraction forces, and a smaller group (the guides)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Vivek Shankar Varadharajan , Sepand Dyanatkar , Giovanni Beltrame

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

Achieving robust cognitive autonomy in robots navigating complex, unpredictable environments remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. This paper presents Underwater Robot Self-Organizing Autonomy (UROSA), a groundbreaking architecture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Markus Buchholz , Ignacio Carlucho , Michele Grimaldi , Yvan R. Petillot

This paper describes a technique for the autonomous mission planning of robotic swarms in high risk environments where agent disablement is likely. Given a swarm operating in a known area, a central command system generates measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Vincent W. Hill , Ryan W. Thomas , Jordan D. Larson

In densely-packed robot swarms operating in confined regions, spatial interference -- which manifests itself as a competition for physical space -- forces robots to spend more time navigating around each other rather than performing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Siddharth Mayya , Pietro Pierpaoli , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper introduces collaborating robots which provide the possibility of enhanced task performance, high reliability and decreased. Collaborating-bots are a collection of mobile robots able to self-assemble and to self-organize in order…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-27 M. A. El-Dosuky , M. Z. Rashad , T. T. Hamza , A. H. EL-Bassiouny

As the volume and complexity of distributed online work increases, the collaboration among people who have never worked together in the past is becoming increasingly necessary. Recent research has proposed algorithms to maximize the…

Many swarm robotics tasks consist of multiple conflicting objectives. This research proposes a multi-objective evolutionary neural network approach to developing controllers for swarms of robots. The swarm robot controllers are trained in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Karl Mason , Sabine Hauert

The fact that robots are getting deployed more often in dynamic environments, together with the increasing complexity of their software systems, raises the need for self-adaptive approaches. In these environments robotic software systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andreas Wiedholz , Rafael Paintner , Julian Gleißner , Alwin Hoffmann , Tobias Huber

This paper proposes a method to navigate a mobile robot by estimating its state over a number of distributed sensor networks (DSNs) such that it can successively accomplish a sequence of tasks, i.e., its state enters each targeted set and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xingkang He , Ehsan Hashemi , Karl H. Johansson

Drones are also known as UAVs are originally designed for military purposes. With the technological advances, they can be seen in most of the aspects of life from filming to logistics. The increased use of drones made it sometimes essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Angelos Dimakos , Daniel Woodhall , Seemal Asif

Neurobiological theories of spatial cognition developed with respect to recording data from relatively small and/or simplistic environments compared to animals' natural habitats. It has been unclear how to extend theoretical models to large…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Joseph D. Monaco , Grace M. Hwang , Kevin M. Schultz , Kechen Zhang

This paper presents the framework for a novel Unified Socially-Aware Navigation (USAN) architecture and explains its need in Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) applications. Our approach emphasizes interpersonal distance and how spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Santosh Balajee Banisetty , David Feil-Seifer

Recent multi-agent frameworks built upon large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex task planning. However, in real-world enterprise environments, business workflows are typically composed through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yiming Xiong , Jian Wang , Bing Li , Yuhan Zhu , Yuqi Zhao

Collective decision-making is a key function of autonomous robot swarms, enabling them to reach a consensus on actions based on environmental features. Existing strategies require the participation of all robots in the decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Samratul Fuady , Danesh Tarapore , Mohammad D. Soorati

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 present a decentralized algorithm to achieve segregation into an arbitrary number of groups with swarms of autonomous robots. The distinguishing feature of our approach is in the minimalistic assumptions on which it is based.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Peter Mitrano , Jordan Burklund , Michael Giancola , Carlo Pinciroli