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A robot swarm is a decentralized system characterized by locality of sensing and
communication, self-organization, and redundancy. These characteristics allow robot …

Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which individuals
influence their peers by modifying the environment in various ways, including rearranging …

Neuro-evolution is an appealing approach to generating collective behaviors for robot
swarms. In its typical application, known as off-line automatic design, the neural networks …

Swarm robotics is a promising approach to control large groups of robots. However,
designing the individual behavior of the robots so that a desired collective behavior emerges …

Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be
performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the …

We present Mate, an automatic off-line design method specialized in the design of spatially-
organizing behaviors for robot swarms. Mate belongs to the family of modular methods …

Automatic off-line design is an attractive approach to implementing robot swarms. In this
approach, a designer specifies a mission to be accomplished by the swarm, and an …

Several methods have already been proposed to automatically design control software for
robot swarms by assembling predefined modules. Yet, so far, the modules on which these …

Automatic design is a promising approach to generating control software for robot swarms.
So far, automatic design has relied on mission-specific objective functions to specify the …