Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy

V Strobel, A Pacheco, M Dorigo - Science Robotics, 2023‏ - science.org
Through cooperation, robot swarms can perform tasks or solve problems that a single robot
from the swarm could not perform/solve by itself. However, it has been shown that a single …

On using social signals to enable flexible error-aware hri

M Stiber, RH Taylor, CM Huang - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Prior error management techniques often do not possess the versatility to appropriately
address robot errors across tasks and scenarios. Their fundamental framework involves …

Rex: Designing user-centered repair and explanations to address robot failures

CP Lee, P Praveena, B Mutlu - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM designing …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Robots in real-world environments continuously engage with multiple users and encounter
changes that lead to unexpected conflicts in fulfilling user requests. Recent technical …

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 …

Fault detection in a swarm of physical robots based on behavioral outlier detection

D Tarapore, J Timmis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to reliably detect faults is essential in many real-world tasks that robot swarms
have the potential to perform. Most studies on fault detection in swarm robotics have been …

Trustworthy swarms

J Wilson, G Chance, P Winter, S Lee, E Milner… - Proceedings of the First …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Swarm robotics has begun to move from the laboratory to the real world. Potential
applications include: logistics, environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and medicine …

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 …

Expect the unexpected: Leveraging the human-robot ecosystem to handle unexpected robot failures

S Honig, T Oron-Gilad - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Unexpected robot failures are inevitable. We propose to leverage socio-technical relations
within the human-robot ecosystem to support adaptable strategies for handling unexpected …

The Emerging Potential of 21st Century Bio-Inspired Swarm Robotics in Modern Medical Surgery

R Barua - Bio-inspired Swarm Robotics and Control: Algorithms …, 2024‏ - igi-global.com
Bio-inspired swarm robotics in medical surgery involves taking inspiration from the collective
behaviors and coordination strategies observed in natural swarms, such as ants, bees, fish …

Energy-efficient post-failure reconfiguration of swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles

A Tahir, H Haghbayan, JM Böling, J Plosila - IEEE Access, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the reconfiguration of swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles after simultaneous
failures of multiple nodes is considered. The objectives of the post-failure reconfiguration are …