[HTML][HTML] Empirical assessment and comparison of neuro-evolutionary methods for the automatic off-line design of robot swarms

K Hasselmann, A Ligot, J Ruddick, M Birattari - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

Simulation-only experiments to mimic the effects of the reality gap in the automatic design of robot swarms

A Ligot, M Birattari - Swarm Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
The reality gap—the discrepancy between reality and simulation—is a critical issue in the off-
line automatic design of control software for robot swarms, as well as for single robots. It is …

Behavior trees as a control architecture in the automatic modular design of robot swarms

J Kuckling, A Ligot, D Bozhinoski, M Birattari - International conference on …, 2018 - Springer
Previous research has shown that automatically combining low-level behaviors into a
probabilistic finite state machine produces control software that crosses the reality gap …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviours for robot swarms

M Salman, D Garzón Ramos, M Birattari - Communications Engineering, 2024 - nature.com
Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which individuals
influence their peers by modifying the environment in various ways, including rearranging …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic design of collective behaviors for robots that can display and perceive colors

D Garzón Ramos, M Birattari - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Research in swarm robotics has shown that automatic design is an effective approach to
realize robot swarms. In automatic design methods, the collective behavior of a swarm is …

Automatic modular design of robot swarms based on repertoires of behaviors generated via novelty search

K Hasselmann, A Ligot, M Birattari - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2023 - Elsevier
Several methods have already been proposed to automatically design control software for
robot swarms by assembling predefined modules. Yet, so far, the modules on which these …

Automode-mate: Automatic off-line design of spatially-organizing behaviors for robot swarms

FJ Mendiburu, DG Ramos, MRA Morais… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Phormica: Photochromic Pheromone Release and Detection System for Stigmergic Coordination in Robot Swarms

M Salman, D Garzón Ramos, K Hasselmann… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which agents modify the
environment to pass information to their peers. In nature, animals use stigmergy by, for …

Transferability in the automatic off-line design of robot swarms: from sim-to-real to embodiment and design-method transfer across different platforms

M Kegeleirs, DG Ramos, K Hasselmann… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic off-line design is an attractive approach to implementing robot swarms. In this
approach, a designer specifies a mission to be accomplished by the swarm, and an …

Show me what you want: Inverse reinforcement learning to automatically design robot swarms by demonstration

I Gharbi, J Kuckling, DG Ramos… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …