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 …

For millennia people have wondered what makes the living different from the non-living.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, artificial life has studied living systems using a synthetic …

We present a review of recent activities in swarm robotic research, and analyse existing
literature in the field to determine how to get closer to a practical swarm robotic system for …

Collective decision-making is a process whereby the members of a group decide on a
course of action by consensus. In this paper, we propose a collective decision-making …

We present two empirical studies on the design of control software for robot swarms. In
Study A, Vanilla and EvoStick, two previously published automatic design methods, are …

Optimization-based design is an effective and promising approach to realizing collective
behaviours for robot swarms. Unfortunately, the domain literature often remains vague about …

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 …

Self-organization can be broadly defined as the ability of a system to display ordered
spatiotemporal patterns solely as the result of the interactions among the system …

Human–swarm interaction is a frontier in the realms of swarm robotics and human-factors
engineering. However, no holistic theory has been explicitly formulated that can inform how …

Evolutionary robotics (ER) is a powerful approach for the automatic synthesis of robot
controllers, as it requires little a priori knowledge about the problem to be solved in order to …