Abstract Purpose of Review We review recent research on swarm robot foraging and
contextualize it with foundational work. Recent work can be divided into two complementary …

How groups of cooperative foragers can achieve efficient and robust collective foraging is of
interest both to biologists studying social insects and engineers designing swarm robotics …

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 …

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

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 …

In swarm robotics systems, coordinated behaviors emerge via local interactions among the
robots as well as between robots and the environment. For a swarm of robots performing a …

This paper overviews some approaches to decentralized monitoring, where one considers
systems with units of computation that are physically or logically distributed. Such systems …

One of the most important promises of decentralized systems is scalability, which is often
assumed to be present in robot swarm systems without being contested. Simple limitations …

We propose an approach to guide simple robots through arbitrary environments while
engaged in a planar construction task. The intent is to mitigate spatial interference between …

We propose a solution to the problem of spatial interference between robots engaged in a
planar construction task. Planar construction entails a swarm of robots pushing objects into a …