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 …

The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with
novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Building construction is one application of multiple robot systems (MRS) that is seeing a rise
in research and is known as collective robotic construction (CRC). CRC specifically …

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 …

In this paper, we present a system to allow a swarm of robots to agree on a set of (key,
value) pairs. This system enables a form of information sharing that has the potential to be …

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 …

Advancements in multi-agent, autonomous, and intelligent robotic systems over the past
decades point toward new design and fabrication possibilities. Exploring how humans and …

We describe a method for automatically building structures from stacked, irregularly shaped
objects. This is a simplified model for the problem of building dry stacked structures (ie no …

Although collective robotic construction systems are beginning to showcase how multi‐robot
systems can contribute to building construction by efficiently building low‐cost, sustainable …