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 …

Swarm robotics is an approach to collective robotics that takes inspiration from the self-
organized behaviors of social animals. Through simple rules and local interactions, swarm …

This paper introduces swarm user interfaces, a new class of human-computer interfaces
comprised of many autonomous robots that handle both display and interaction. We …

Cooperative multi-agent systems (MAS) are ones in which several agents attempt, through
their interaction, to jointly solve tasks or to maximize utility. Due to the interactions among the …

There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous
mobile robots exhibiting cooperative behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with …

Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

A key difficulty in the design of multi-agent robotic systems is the size and complexity of the
space of possible designs. In order to make principled design decisions, an understanding …

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 …

Multiple cooperating robots are able to complete many tasks more quickly and reliably than
one robot alone. Communication between the robots can multiply their capabilities and …

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 …