My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

We present a novel multi-robot simulator named ARGoS. ARGoS is designed to simulate
complex experiments involving large swarms of robots of different types. ARGoS is the first …

Swarms of tiny flying robots hold great potential for exploring unknown, indoor
environments. Their small size allows them to move in narrow spaces, and their light weight …

Mobile robots are playing a significant role in Higher Education science and engineering
teaching, as they offer a flexible platform to explore and teach a wide-range of topics such as …

In this paper, the characteristics and performance of three open-source simulators for
robotics, V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS, are thoroughly analysed and compared. While they …

This article presents the full integration of compact educational mobile robotic platforms built
around an Arduino controller board in the Robot Operating System (ROS). To decrease the …

In flocking, a swarm of robots moves cohesively in a common direction. Traditionally,
flocking is realized using two main control rules: proximal control, which controls the …

We present ARGoS, a novel open source multi-robot simulator. The main design focus of
ARGoS is the real-time simulation of large heterogeneous swarms of robots. Existing robot …

We present Buzz, a novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms. Buzz
advocates a compositional approach, offering primitives to define swarm behaviors both …

Division of labor is ubiquitous in biological systems, as evidenced by various forms of
complex task specialization observed in both animal societies and multicellular organisms …