Multi-robot systems and cooperative object transport: Communications, platforms, and challenges

X An, C Wu, Y Lin, M Lin… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot systems gain considerable attention due to lower cost, better robustness, and
higher scalability as compared with single-robot systems. Cooperative object transport, as a …

Swarm robotics behaviors and tasks: a technical review

MHA Majid, MR Arshad, RM Mokhtar - Control engineering in robotics and …, 2022 - Springer
The field of swarm robotics has been researched for the last few decades to mimic the
capability and the intelligence of biological insects and animals that possess social …

Multirobot coordination with deep reinforcement learning in complex environments

D Wang, H Deng - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In the multiple autonomous robot system, it is very important to complete path planning
coordinately and effectively in the processes of interference avoidance, resource allocation …

Swarms can be rational

GA Kaminka - Philosophical Transactions A, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The emergence of collective order in swarms from local, myopic interactions of their
individual members is of interest to biology, sociology, psychology, computer science …

Effective approximations for multi-robot coordination in spatially distributed tasks

D Claes, P Robbel, F Oliehoek… - … of the 14th …, 2015 - livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
Although multi-robot systems have received substantial re-search attention in recent years,
multi-robot coordination still remains a difficult task. Especially, when dealing with spatially …

Heterogeneous foraging swarms can be better

GA Kaminka, Y Douchan - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Inspired by natural phenomena, generations of researchers have been
investigating how a swarm of robots can act coherently and purposefully, when individual …

Dynamic target searching and tracking with swarm robots based on stigmergy mechanism

Q Tang, Z Xu, F Yu, Z Zhang, J Zhang - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
A strategy based on stigmergy mechanism for swarm robots interaction is proposed in this
paper. The stigmergy mechanism refers to an interactive method in which robots …

Language evolution in swarm robotics: A perspective

N Cambier, R Miletitch, V Frémont, M Dorigo… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
While direct local communication is very important for the organization of robot swarms, so
far it has mostly been used for relatively simple tasks such as signaling robots preferences …

A culture of their own? culture in robot-robot interaction

M Mansouri, H Taylor - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a framework for studying culture in the context of robot-robot interaction
(RRI). We examine the claim that groups of robots can share a culture, even independently …

Data ferrying with swarming UAS in tactical defence networks

R Hunjet, B Fraser, T Stevens, L Hodges… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we categorise swarming into four classes, depending on the manner in which
swarm members communicate. We identify two of these classes as ready candidates for the …