Macroprogramming refers to the theory and practice of expressing the macro (scopic)
behaviour of a collective system using a single program. Macroprogramming approaches …

Optimization-based design is an effective and promising approach to realizing collective
behaviours for robot swarms. Unfortunately, the domain literature often remains vague about …

Neuro-evolution is an appealing approach to generating collective behaviors for robot
swarms. In its typical application, known as off-line automatic design, the neural networks …

Designing collective behaviors for robot swarms is a difficult endeavor due to their fully
distributed, highly redundant, and ever-changing nature. To overcome the challenge, a few …

Collectiveness is an important property of many systems—both natural and artificial. By
exploiting a large number of individuals, it is often possible to produce effects that go far …

Supported by current socio-scientific trends, programming the global behaviour of whole
computational collectives makes for great opportunities, but also significant challenges …

The aim of this research project is to develop a smart social robot showing sufficient
intelligence to work as a tour-guide in different environments. In doing so, both a software …

Although swarm robotics is widely recognized as a promising approach to coordinating
large groups of robots, a general methodology for designing collective behaviors for robot …

Swarm robotics is a promising approach to control large groups of robots. However,
designing the individual behavior of the robots so that a desired collective behavior emerges …

Automatic design is a promising approach to generating control software for robot swarms.
So far, automatic design has relied on mission-specific objective functions to specify the …