Bio-inspired self-organising multi-robot pattern formation: A review

H Oh, AR Shirazi, C Sun, Y ** - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Self-organised emergent patterns can be widely seen in natural and man-made complex
systems generated by interactions among local components without external or global …

Morphogenesis in robot swarms

I Slavkov, D Carrillo-Zapata, N Carranza, X Diego… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Morphogenesis allows millions of cells to self-organize into intricate structures with a wide
variety of functional shapes during embryonic development. This process emerges from …

Automated pattern generation for swarm robots using constrained multi-objective genetic programming

Z Fan, Z Wang, W Li, X Zhu, B Hu, AM Zou… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Swarm robotic systems (SRSs), which are widely used in many fields, such as search and
rescue, usually comprise a number of robots with relatively simple mechanisms …

Null-space-based modulated reference trajectory generator for multi-robots formation in obstacle environment

P Yao, Y Wei, Z Zhao - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper devotes to the three-dimensional formation problem of multi-robots in obstacle
environment. Given the desired formation pattern and the group trajectory, it is formulated as …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-robot target entrapment using cooperative hierarchical gene regulatory network

M Wu, X Zhu, L Ma, W Bao, Z Fan, Y ** - Swarm and evolutionary …, 2023 - Elsevier
For accomplishing a variety of challenging tasks, multi-robot systems perform better than
single robots because they have certain properties that a single robot lacks. Target …

Pattern formation of multi-AUV systems with the optical sensor based on displacement-based formation control

X Wang, B Zerr, H Thomas, B Clement… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Associated with multi-autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems, the optical sensors
with short working range can be reconsidered, which can provide more detailed and more …

An affection-based dynamic leader selection model for formation control in multirobot systems

F Li, Y Ding, M Zhou, K Hao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a dynamic leader selection process of a multirobot system with leader-follower
strategies is studied in terms of formation control. A fuzzy inference system is employed to …

Bifurcation and oscillatory dynamics of delayed cyclic gene networks including small RNAs

M **ao, WX Zheng, G Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been demonstrated in a large number of experimental results that small RNAs
(sRNAs) play a vital role in gene regulation processes. Thus, the gene regulation process is …

A morphogenetic approach to flexible and robust shape formation for swarm robotic systems

Y Meng, H Guo, Y ** - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Embryonic development of multi-cellular organisms is governed by gene regulatory
networks (GRNs), which are a collection of genes that interact with one another and with …

Adaptive cooperative gene regulatory network optimized by elastic deformation algorithm for multirobot hunting

Q Pan, J Tang, M Wu, X Zhu, Y Yuan… - IEEE Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compared with a single robot, a multirobot system exhibits better performance when dealing
with different complex tasks. Recently, the application of multirobot systems to hunt targets …