In the field of mobile robotics, the study of multi-robot systems (MRSs) has grown
significantly in size and importance in recent years. Having made great progress in the …

As the community strives towards autonomous multi-robot systems, there is a need for these
systems to autonomously form coalitions to complete assigned missions. Numerous …

A multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV) system is a group of vehicles that are designed
with the aim to perform some collective behavior. Coverage control is one of the most active …

In the pursuit of an efficient cooperative multi-robot system, the researcher must eventually
answer the question “how should robots communicate?”; a natural way to attack this …

Develo** self-organised swarm systems capable of adapting to environmental changes
as well as to dynamic situations is a complex challenge. An efficient labour division model …

This paper describes the project TRADR: Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot
Assisted Disaster Response. Experience shows that any incident serious enough to require …

In this paper we present three scalable, fully distributed, threshold-based algorithms for
allocating autonomous embodied workers to a given task whose demand evolves …

This paper presents a system for the coordination of aerial and ground robots for
applications such as surveillance and intervention in emergency management. The overall …

This paper presents the architecture developed in the framework of the AWARE project for
the autonomous distributed cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

A problem that has recently attracted the attention of the research community is the
autonomous formation of robot teams to perform complex multi-robot tasks. The …