The ability to navigate complex unstructured environments and carry out inspection tasks
requires robots to be capable of climbing inclined surfaces and to be equipped with a sensor …

Robots performing automated tasks in uncontrolled environments need to adapt to
environmental changes. Through building large collectives of robots, this robust and …

The oil and gas industry faces increasing pressure to remove people from dangerous
offshore environments. Robots present a cost-effective and safe method for inspection …

Quorum sensing (QS) is ubiquitous in distributed, multi-agent systems in nature—from
bacteria to arthropods to primates—and has been proposed as a useful distributed algorithm …

Cyber–physical systems (CPS), as the cornerstone of smart city, has been attracting great
interest from academia and industry. It aims to monitor/control physical components via …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been progressively more used in
agricultural tasks. The technology of these drones, although evolving, still faces issues, such …

Abstract" Mobile robots are becoming increasingly common for applications such as logistics
and delivery. While most research for mobile robots focuses on generating collision-free …

We present the implementation and characterization of an affordable testbed for
underactuated multi-agent, self-assembling systems. There has been recent interest into the …

Collisions play a crucial role in nature. While some natural systems utilise collisions to
achieve collective behaviours such as cell migration, most robot systems avoid them. There …

Networks are fundamental building blocks for representing data, and computations.
Remarkable progress in learning in structurally defined (shallow or deep) networks has …