To effectively perform collective monitoring of dynamic environments, a robot swarm needs
to adapt to changes by processing the latest information and discarding outdated beliefs. We …

Magnitude-sensitivity refers to the result that performance in decision-making, across
domains and organisms, is affected by the total value of the possible alternatives. This …

Strongly opinionated minorities can have a dramatic impact on the opinion dynamics of a
large population. Two factions of inflexible minorities, polarised into two competing opinions …

We introduce and analyze a continuous time and state-space model of opinion cascades on
networks of large numbers of agents that form opinions about two or more options. By …

Decentralised systems composed of a large number of locally interacting agents often rely
on coherent behaviour to execute coordinated tasks. Agents cooperate to reach a coherent …

To succeed in their objectives, groups of individuals must be able to make quick and
accurate collective decisions on the best among alternatives with different qualities. Group …

Collective decision-making is a fundamental cognitive process required for group
coordination. Typically, this process requires individuals in a group to either reach a …

Multi-option collective decision-making is a challenging task in the context of swarm
intelligence. In this paper, we extend the problem of collective perception from simple binary …

Making fast and accurate consensus decisions through local communication and
decentralised control in a swarm of simple robots can be a very challenging endeavour. In …

Robotic collectives are composed of hundreds or thousands of distributed robots using local
sensing and communication that encompass characteristics of biological spatial swarms …