Balancing collective exploration and exploitation in multi-agent and multi-robot systems: A review

HL Kwa, J Leong Kit, R Bouffanais - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multi-agent systems and multi-robot systems have been recognized as unique solutions to
complex dynamic tasks distributed in space. Their effectiveness in accomplishing these …

When less is more: Robot swarms adapt better to changes with constrained communication

MS Talamali, A Saha, JAR Marshall, A Reina - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
To effectively perform collective monitoring of dynamic environments, a robot swarm needs
to adapt to changes by processing the latest information and discarding outdated beliefs. We …

Artificial collective intelligence engineering: a survey of concepts and perspectives

R Casadei - Artificial Life, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collectiveness is an important property of many systems—both natural and artificial. By
exploiting a large number of individuals, it is often possible to produce effects that go far …

Anticonformists catalyze societal transitions and facilitate the expression of evolving preferences

D Mittal, SM Constantino, VV Vasconcelos - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The world is grappling with emerging, urgent, large-scale problems, such as climate change,
pollution, biodiversity loss, and pandemics, which demand immediate and coordinated …

Effect of swarm density on collective tracking performance

HL Kwa, J Philippot, R Bouffanais - Swarm Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
How does the size of a swarm affect its collective action? Despite being arguably a key
parameter, no systematic and satisfactory guiding principles exist to select the number of …

The hidden benefits of limited communication and slow sensing in collective monitoring of dynamic environments

T Aust, MS Talamali, M Dorigo, H Hamann… - … Conference on Swarm …, 2022 - Springer
Most of our experiences, as well as our intuition, are usually built on a linear understanding
of systems and processes. Complex systems in general, and more specifically swarm …

The Effect of Collective Decision-Making on Productivity: A Structural Equation Modeling

SM Mirbagheri, AO Rafiei Atani, M Parsanejad - SAGE Open, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between common rationality (as a
factor of convergence of employees and managers), collective decision-making (as one of …

Controlling robot swarm aggregation through a minority of informed robots

A Sion, A Reina, M Birattari, E Tuci - International Conference on Swarm …, 2022 - Springer
Self-organized aggregation is a well studied behavior in swarm robotics as it is the pre-
condition for the development of more advanced group-level responses. In this paper, we …

Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots

GD Masi, J Prasetyo, R Zakir, N Mankovskii… - Swarm Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
In this paper we study a generalized case of best-of-n model, which considers three kind of
agents: zealots, individuals who remain stubborn and do not change their opinion; informed …

On the evolution of adaptable and scalable mechanisms for collective decision-making in a swarm of robots

A Almansoori, M Alkilabi, E Tuci - Swarm Intelligence, 2024 - Springer
A swarm of robots can collectively select an option among the available alternatives offered
by the environment through a process known as collective decision-making. This process is …