Swarm robotics is an approach to collective robotics that takes inspiration from the self-
organized behaviors of social animals. Through simple rules and local interactions, swarm …

The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …

While swarm robotics systems are often claimed to be highly fault-tolerant, so far research
has limited its attention to safe laboratory settings and has virtually ignored security issues in …

Swarm robotics is the study of how to design groups of robots that operate without relying on
any external infrastructure or on any form of centralized control. In a robot swarm, the …

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 …

Robot swarms mimic natural systems in which collective abilities emerge from the interaction
of individuals. So far, the swarm robotics literature has focused on the emergence of …

In this article we present a self-organized method for allocating the individuals of a robot
swarm to tasks that are sequentially interdependent. Tasks that are sequentially …

As an emergent research area by which swarm intelligence is applied to multi-robot
systems; swarm robotics (a very particular and peculiar sub-area of collective robotics) …

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 …

We propose a self-adaptive communication strategy for controlling the heading direction of a
swarm of mobile robots during flocking. We consider the problem where a small group of …