The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …

One of the long-term goals in evolutionary robotics is to be able to automatically synthesize
controllers for real autonomous robots based only on a task specification. While a number of …

Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots.
While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to …

We present two empirical studies on the design of control software for robot swarms. In
Study A, Vanilla and EvoStick, two previously published automatic design methods, are …

The evolution of task-oriented control for robots with complex locomotor systems is currently
out of reach for traditional evolutionary computation techniques, as the coordination of a …

We present Mate, an automatic off-line design method specialized in the design of spatially-
organizing behaviors for robot swarms. Mate belongs to the family of modular methods …

Swarm robotics is a field in which multiple robots coordinate their collective behavior
autonomously to accomplish a given task without any form of centralized control. In swarm …

This paper introduces JBotEvolver, a versatile simulation platform for research and
education in evolutionary robotics (ER). JBotEvolver is a Java-based open-source, cross …

The availability of relatively capable and inexpensive hardware components has made it
feasible to consider large-scale systems of autonomous aquatic drones for maritime tasks. In …

Maritime tasks, such as surveillance and patrolling, aquaculture inspection, and wildlife
monitoring, typically require large operational crews and expensive equipment. Only …