When less is more: Robot swarms adapt better to changes with constrained communication

MS Talamali, A Saha, JAR Marshall, A Reina - Science Robotics, 2021‏ - science.org
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to adapt to changes by processing the latest information and discarding outdated beliefs.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 …

Aerial robotic technologies for civil engineering: established and emerging practice

MR Freeman, MM Kashani… - Journal of Unmanned …, 2021‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Aerial robotic technology has potential for use in a wide variety of civil engineering
applications. Such technology potentially offers low-cost methods to replace expensive …

Sniffy bug: A fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters in cluttered environments

BP Duisterhof, S Li, J Burgués, VJ Reddi… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nano quadcopters are ideal for gas source localization (GSL) as they are safe, agile and
inexpensive. However, their extremely restricted sensors and computational resources make …

Recent trends in robot learning and evolution for swarm robotics

J Kuckling - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
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 …

Deep learning-based complete coverage path planning with re-joint and obstacle fusion paradigm

T Lei, C Luo, GE Jan, Z Bi - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
With the introduction of autonomy into the precision agriculture process, environmental
exploration, disaster response, and other fields, one of the global demands is to navigate …

Robot-assisted nuclear disaster response: Report and insights from a field exercise

M Chiou, GT Epsimos, G Nikolaou… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports on insights by robotics researchers that participated in a 5-day robot-
assisted nuclear disaster response field exercise conducted by Kerntechnische Hilfdienst …

A checklist for safe robot swarms

ER Hunt, S Hauert - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020‏ - nature.com
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The design of self-organizing human–swarm intelligence

JD Hasbach, M Bennewitz - Adaptive Behavior, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Human–swarm interaction is a frontier in the realms of swarm robotics and human-factors
engineering. However, no holistic theory has been explicitly formulated that can inform how …

A data-driven method for metric extraction to detect faults in robot swarms

S Lee, E Milner, S Hauert - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot swarms are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. Making swarms safe will
be critical to improve adoption and trust. Fault detection is a useful component in systems …

On the ethical governance of swarm robotic systems in the real world

AFT Winfield, M Swana, J Ives… - Philosophical …, 2025‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we address the question: what practices would be required for the responsible
design and operation of real-world swarm robotic systems? We argue that swarm robotic …