Multiple failures can have catastrophic consequences on the normal operation of
telecommunication networks. In this sense, guaranteeing network robustness to avoid users …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms have been foreseen to play an important
role in military applications in the future, wherein they will be frequently subjected to different …

Multi-robot systems are promising tools for many hazardous real-world problems. In
particular, the practical application of swarm robotics was identified as one of the grand …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is an emerging technology that will significantly
expand the application areas and open up new possibilities for UAVs, while also presenting …

Maintenance support service network (MSSN) is used to provide maintenance services and
maintain the operational status of equipment. However, the performance of MSSN has been …

This paper addresses the problem of topology control for dealing with node failures in
networks of multiple robots. While connectivity maintenance has been widely addressed in …

Despite the robustness of complex networks has been extensively studied in the last
decade, there still lacks a unifying framework able to embrace all the proposed metrics. In …

Applications based on groups of self‐organized mobile robots are becoming pervasive in
communication networks, monitoring, traffic, and transportation systems. Their advantage is …

This paper addresses the topological robustness of robot networks under failures; a subject
often neglected in the literature. Robots are likely to fail due to several causes, which may …

Instability-unpredictable but constant change in one's environment and the means with
which one deals with it-has replaced convergence as the focal problem for …