Swarm intelligence principles have been widely studied and applied to a number of different
tasks where a group of autonomous robots is used to solve a problem with a distributed …

The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …

Division of labor is ubiquitous in biological systems, as evidenced by various forms of
complex task specialization observed in both animal societies and multicellular organisms …

In this paper, we develop an autonomous construction system in which self-contained
ground robots build a protective barrier by means of compliant pockets. We present a …

An important characteristic of a robot swarm that must operate in the real world is the ability
to cope with changeable environments by exhibiting behavioural plasticity at the collective …

There are many potential applications of swarm robotic systems in real-world scenarios. In
this paper, formation-containment controller design for single-integrator and double …

In swarm robotic systems, task allocation is a challenging problem aiming to decompose
complex tasks into a series of subtasks. We propose a self-organizing method to allocate a …

This article presents an approach for the efficient and transparent parallelization of a large
class of swarm algorithms, specifically those where the multiagent paradigm is used to …

We propose a novel application of the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm to efficiently
allocate a swarm of homogeneous robots to a set of tasks that need to be accomplished by …

Demand for autonomous swarms, where robots can cooperate with each other without
human intervention, is set to grow rapidly in the near future. Currently, one of the main …