Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting
autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and …

Autonomous or teleoperated robots have been playing increasingly important roles in civil
applications in recent years. Across the different civil domains where robots can support …

Robot swarms herald the ability to solve complex tasks using a large collection of simple
devices. However, engineering a robotic swarm is far from trivial, with a major hurdle being …

The coordination of robot swarms-large decentralized teams of robots-generally relies on
robust and efficient inter-robot communication. Maintaining communication between robots …

The emergence of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms has brought a variety of critical
challenges to solve. Among them, connectivity maintenance has been the subject of …

Smart factories are introducing new technologies to improve production and expand
flexibility, which denotes the integration of intelligent, autonomous, and interconnected …

In this paper, we address a novel hierarchical distributed control (HDC) strategy for
networked multirobot systems (MRSs). This strategy is developed on a geometric approach …

A number of coordinated behaviors are proposed for achieving specific tasks for multirobot
systems. However, since most applications require more than one such behavior, one needs …

Supervision and interventions by operators are essential but restrictive factors for robotic
swarm operations, whereas they may also enhance system capability. With the aim of …

Effective exchange of information in multi-robot systems is one of the grand challenges of
today's robotics. Here, we address the problem of simultaneously maximizing the (i) …