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 …

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 …

Research in swarm robotics has shown that automatic design is an effective approach to
realize robot swarms. In automatic design methods, the collective behavior of a swarm is …

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 an appealing approach to realizing robot swarms. In this approach, a
designer specifies a mission that the swarm must perform, and an optimization algorithm …

Although swarm robotics is widely recognized as a promising approach to coordinating
large groups of robots, a general methodology for designing collective behaviors for robot …

We investigate the possibilities, challenges, and limitations that arise from the use of
behavior trees in the context of the automatic modular design of collective behaviors in …

Due to the lack of systematic empirical analyses and comparisons of ideas and methods, a
clearly established state of the art is still missing in the optimization-based design of robot …

We present Arlequin, an off-line automatic design method that produces control software for
robot swarms by combining behavioral neural-network modules generated via neuro …

Behavior trees are a control architecture that has gained recent attention in AI and robotics.
Previous research on the use of behavior trees in swarm robotics has shown the necessity …