In this paper, we present an approach to designing decentralized robot control policies that
mimic certain microscopic and macroscopic behaviors of ants performing collective transport …

The idea behind universal coating is to have a thin layer of a specific substance covering an
object of any shape so that one can measure a certain condition (like temperature or cracks) …

Imagine coating buildings and bridges with smart particles (also coined smart paint) that
monitor structural integrity and sense and report on traffic and wind loads, leading to …

We present a unified approach to describing certain types of collective decision making in
swarm robotics that bridges from a microscopic individual-based description to aggregate …

Imagine coating buildings and bridges with smart particles (also coined smart paint) that
monitor structural integrity and sense and report on traffic and wind loads, leading to …

Imagine that we have a piece of matter that can change its physical properties like its shape,
density, conductivity, or color in a programmable fashion based on either user input or …

Self-organizing swarm systems promise an essential progress in several research areas.
They can find application in health context, such as through nano-robots, or material context …

(Nano) robot swarms promise new applications in the field of health and entertainment. One
of the tasks such a swarm could solve is coating, in which the robots in the swarm locate …

We present a novel analytical approach to computing the population and geometric
parameters of a multi-robot system that will provably produce specified boundary coverage …

This technical brief summarizes and extends our recently introduced control framework for
stochastically allocating a swarm of robots among boundaries of circular regions. As in the …