Swarm intelligence and cyber-physical systems: concepts, challenges and future trends

M Schranz, GA Di Caro, T Schmickl… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

Collective gradient perception with a flying robot swarm

TA Karagüzel, AE Turgut, AE Eiben, E Ferrante - Swarm Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we study the problem of collective and emergent sensing with a flying robot
swarm in which social interactions among individuals lead to following the gradient of a …

subCULTron-cultural development as a tool in underwater robotics

R Thenius, D Moser, JC Varughese… - Artificial Life and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents the research done in the field of robotic cultural evolution in challenging
real world environments. We hereby present these efforts, as part of project subCULTron …

Learning stigmergic communication for self-organising coordination

S Mariani, F Zambonelli - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-organisation in multi-agent systems (MAS) requires agents to coordinate their actions
according to the specific goal to be pursued by the system as a whole. When agents can …

Environment induced emergence of collective behavior in evolving swarms with limited sensing

F Van Diggelen, J Luo, TA Karagüzel… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designing controllers for robot swarms is challenging, because human developers have
typically no good understanding of the link between the details of a controller that governs …

A swarm design paradigm unifying swarm behaviors using minimalistic communication

JC Varughese, H Hornischer, P Zahadat… - Bioinspiration & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous nature inspired algorithms have been suggested to enable robotic swarms,
mobile sensor networks and other multi-agent systems to exhibit various self-organized …

CIMAX: collective information maximization in robotic swarms using local communication

H Hornischer, JC Varughese, R Thenius… - Adaptive …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Robotic swarms and mobile sensor networks are used for environmental monitoring in
various domains and areas of operation. Especially in otherwise inaccessible environments …

aMussels: Diving and anchoring in a new bio-inspired under-actuated robot class for long-term environmental exploration and monitoring

E Donati, GJ Van Vuuren, K Tanaka, D Romano… - … Robotic Systems: 18th …, 2017 - Springer
In the last decade, the growing interest in underwater vehicles allowed significant progress
in underwater robotic missions. Despite of this, underwater habitats remain one of the most …

A model for bio-inspired underwater swarm robotic exploration

JC Varughese, R Thenius, P Leitgeb, F Wotawa… - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018 - Elsevier
Swarm intelligence has interested researchers in various areas of research for several
decades because of its stability, resilience and simplicity. Several researchers have used …

[PDF][PDF] Quantification and Analysis of the Resilience of Two Swarm Intelligent Algorithms.

JC Varughese, R Thenius, T Schmickl, F Wotawa - GCAI, 2017 - easychair.org
Nature showcases swarms of animals performing various complex tasks efficiently where
capabilities of individuals alone in the swarm are often quite limited. Swarm intelligence is …