Swarm intelligence principles have been widely studied and applied to a number of different
tasks where a group of autonomous robots is used to solve a problem with a distributed …

Background The foraging task is one of the canonical testbeds for cooperative robotics, in
which a collection of robots has to search and transport objects to specific storage point (s) …

Successful distributed sensing and control require data to flow effectively between sensors,
processors and actuators on single robots, in groups and across the Internet. We propose a …

In multi-robot applications, such as foraging or collection tasks, interference, which results
from competition for space between spatially extended robots, can significantly affect the …

Large collections of robots have the potential to perform tasks collectively using distributed
control algorithms. These algorithms require communication between robots to allow the …

In this article, we present a macroscopic analytical model of collaboration in a group of
reactive robots. The model consists of a series of coupled differential equations that describe …

We describe localization-space trails (LOST), a method that enables a team of robots to
navigate between places of interest in an initially unknown environment using a trail of …

When using communication in multi-robot systems it's often not desirable to choose an
abstract form of communication that separates the messages from the physical environment …

We propose a general mathematical methodology for studying the dynamics of multiagent
systems in which complex collective behavior arises out of local interactions between many …

This chapter aims at providing the reader with a thorough understanding of the notion of
cooperation and its use as a self-organising mechanism in artificial systems. As the …