ARGoS: a modular, parallel, multi-engine simulator for multi-robot systems

C Pinciroli, V Trianni, R O'Grady, G Pini, A Brutschy… - Swarm intelligence, 2012 - Springer
We present a novel multi-robot simulator named ARGoS. ARGoS is designed to simulate
complex experiments involving large swarms of robots of different types. ARGoS is the first …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale Chimerism: An experimental window on the algorithms of anatomical control

V Nanos, M Levin - Cells & Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the immense progress in genetics and cell biology, major knowledge gaps remain
with respect to prediction and control of the global morphologies that will result from the …

ARGoS: a modular, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics

C Pinciroli, V Trianni, R O'Grady, G Pini… - 2011 IEEE/RSJ …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present ARGoS, a novel open source multi-robot simulator. The main design focus of
ARGoS is the real-time simulation of large heterogeneous swarms of robots. Existing robot …

Majority-rule opinion dynamics with differential latency: a mechanism for self-organized collective decision-making

MA Montes de Oca, E Ferrante, A Scheidler… - Swarm Intelligence, 2011 - Springer
Collective decision-making is a process whereby the members of a group decide on a
course of action by consensus. In this paper, we propose a collective decision-making …

[HTML][HTML] Cultural evolution of probabilistic aggregation in synthetic swarms

N Cambier, D Albani, V Frémont, V Trianni… - Applied Soft …, 2021 - Elsevier
Local interactions and communication are key features in swarm robotics, but they are most
often fixed at design time, limiting flexibility and causing a stiff and inefficient response to …

Multi-topic belief formation through bifurcations over signed social networks

A Bizyaeva, A Franci, NE Leonard - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.02755, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose and analyze a nonlinear dynamic model of continuous-time multi-dimensional
belief formation over signed social networks. Our model accounts for the effects of a …

Supervised morphogenesis: Exploiting morphological flexibility of self-assembling multirobot systems through cooperation with aerial robots

N Mathews, AL Christensen, A Stranieri… - Robotics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Self-assembling robots have the potential to undergo autonomous morphological
adaptation. However, due to the simplicity in their hardware makeup and their limited …

Proactive opinion-driven robot navigation around human movers

C Cathcart, M Santos, S Park… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose, analyze, and experimentally verify a new proactive approach for robot social
navigation driven by the robot's “opinion” for which way and by how much to pass human …

Opinion-Driven Robot Navigation: Human-Robot Corridor Passing

C Cathcart, M Santos, S Park, NE Leonard - 2022 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
We propose, analyze, and experimentally verify a new approach for robot social navigation
in human-robot corridor passing that is driven by nonlinear opinion dynamics. The robot …

Understanding Oversmoothing in GNNs as Consensus in Opinion Dynamics

K Wang, Y Yang, I Saha, C Allen-Blanchette - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
In contrast to classes of neural networks where the learned representations become
increasingly expressive with network depth, the learned representations in graph neural …