Swarm intelligence principles have been widely studied and applied to a number of different
tasks where a group of autonomous robots is used to solve a problem with a distributed …

Smart products supported by new step-changing technologies, such as Internet of Things
and artificial intelligence, are now emerging in the market. Smart products are cyber physical …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

Recent advances in technology are delivering robots of reduced size and cost. A natural
outgrowth of these advances are systems comprised of large numbers of robots that …

Target search and tracking is a classical but difficult problem in many research domains,
including computer vision, wireless sensor networks and robotics. We review the seminal …

Swarm Robotics (SR) is an extension of the study of Multi-Robot Systems that exploits
concepts of communication, coordination and collaboration among a large number of robots …

A robot swarm is a decentralized system characterized by locality of sensing and
communication, self-organization, and redundancy. These characteristics allow robot …

We present a review of recent activities in swarm robotic research, and analyse existing
literature in the field to determine how to get closer to a practical swarm robotic system for …

A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

Swarm Robotics is an emerging field of adapting the phenomenon of natural swarms to
robotics and a study of robots to mimic natural swarms, like ants and birds, to form a …