My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

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 …

Pheromones are chemical substances released into the environment by an individual
animal, which elicit stereotyped behaviours widely found across the animal kingdom …

In this paper, we study the problem of exploration and navigation in an unknown
environment from an evolutionary swarm robotics perspective. In other words, we search for …

In this paper, we propose a collective decision-making method for swarms of robots. The
method enables a robot swarm to select, from a set of possible actions, the one that has the …

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 …

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-
servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific …

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 …