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 …

Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which individuals
influence their peers by modifying the environment in various ways, including rearranging …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Designing controllers for robot swarms is challenging, because human developers have
typically no good understanding of the link between the details of a controller that governs …

Automatic control design for robotic systems is becoming more and more popular. However,
this usually involves a significant computational cost, due to the expensive and noisy …

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has shown a drastic increase in interest in the
past few years. Current applications mainly depend on single UAV operations, which face …

In swarm robotics, the design problem is one of the most pressing issues of today's research.
Robots in a swarm must be autonomous and are usually individually programmed …

Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be
performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the …