We address a fundamental issue of collective motion of aerial robots: how to ensure that
large flocks of autonomous drones seamlessly navigate in confined spaces. The numerous …

From AI to Robotics: Mobile, Social, and Sentient Robots is a journey into the world of agent-
based robotics and it covers a number of interesting topics, both in the theory and practice of …

Coordinated and ordered collective behaviors that emerge from decentralized and local self-
organizing interactions among individuals widely exists in many biological groups. The …

Flocking motions have been the subject of hundreds of studies over the past six decades.
The vast majority of models have nearly identical aims: bottom-up demonstration of basic …

We present a method for the control of robot swarms which allows the shaping and the
translation of patterns of simple robots (" smart particles"), using two types of devices. These …

Biological systems achieve robust and scalable group behaviors, such as flocking, through
local interactions amongst vast numbers of unreliable agents. In these systems, each agent …

We consider the problem of distributed multi-robot team formation including the dynamic
reconfiguration of robot teams after encountering obstacles. We describe a distributed robot …

Robotic swarms are usually designed in a bottom-up way, which can make robotic swarms
vulnerable to environmental impact. It is particularly true for the widely used control mode of …

In this paper, we study how flocking affects the accuracy and speed of individuals in long-
range “migration”. Specifically, we extend a behavior that can generate self-organized …

This paper examines the problem of distributed coverage of an initially unknown
environment using a multi-robot system. Specifically, focus is on a coverage technique for …