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to adapt to changes by processing the latest information and discarding outdated beliefs.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 …

How does the size of a swarm affect its collective action? Despite being arguably a key
parameter, no systematic and satisfactory guiding principles exist to select the number of …

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 study how robot swarms can achieve a consensus on the best among a set of n possible
options available in the environment. While the robots rely on local communication with one …

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 …

With increasing numbers of mobile robots arriving in real-world applications, more robots
coexist in the same space, interact, and possibly collaborate. Methods to provide such …

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 …

Autonomous decision-making is a fundamental requirement for the intelligent behavior of
individual agents and systems. For artificial systems, one of the key design prerequisites is …

Efficient engineered systems require scalability. A scalable system has increasing
performance with increasing system size. In an ideal situation, the increase in performance …

In densely-packed robot swarms operating in confined regions, spatial interference-which
manifests itself as a competition for physical space-forces robots to spend more time …