In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing multi-robot systems
(hereafter MRSs) to provide cost effective, fault-tolerant and reliable solutions to a variety of …

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 …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Anyone who has moved furniture together with friends will appreciate that cooperative
transport requires some non-trivial communication. Yet ants are adept at collectively moving …

To cooperatively transport a large load, it is important that carriers conform in their efforts
and align their forces. A downside of behavioural conformism is that it may decrease the …

We present a survey on the application of fluid approximations, in the form of mean-field
models, to the design of control strategies in swarm robotics. Mean-field models that consist …

Mobile crowd sensing and computing (MCSC) has become a hot research area in recent
years. This article presents our vision of the next generation of MCSC, crowd intelligence …

We propose the concept of a Force-Amplifying N-robot Transport System (Force-ANTS) to
coordinate the manipulation forces from a group of robots in order to transport a heavy …

At the macroscale, controlling robotic swarms typically uses substantial memory, processing
power, and coordination unavailable at the microscale, eg, for colloidal robots, which could …

Swarms of low-cost autonomous robots can potentially be used to collectively perform tasks
over very large domains and time scales. Novel robots for swarm applications are currently …