Swarm robotics: Simulators, platforms and applications review

C Calderón-Arce, JC Brenes-Torres, R Solis-Ortega - Computation, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an updated and broad review of swarm robotics research papers
regarding software, hardware, simulators and applications. The evolution from its concept to …

Exploring self-repair in a coupled spiking astrocyte neural network

J Liu, LJ McDaid, J Harkin, S Karim… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is now known that astrocytes modulate the activity at the tripartite synapses where indirect
signaling via the retrograde messengers, endocannabinoids, leads to a localized self …

ARDebug: an augmented reality tool for analysing and debugging swarm robotic systems

AG Millard, R Redpath, AM Jewers, C Arndt… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Despite growing interest in collective robotics over the past few years, analysing and
debugging the behaviour of swarm robotic systems remains a challenge due to the lack of …

Swarm Robots in Education: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

W Johal, Y Peng, H Mi - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This study reviews published scientific literature on the use of swarm robots for education
purposes in the last ten years. It focuses on user studies involving robotics swarm in order to …

ROS integration for miniature mobile robots

A West, F Arvin, H Martin, S Watson… - … Robotic Systems: 19th …, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, the feasibility of using the Robot Operating System (ROS) for controlling
miniature size mobile robots was investigated. Open-source and low-cost robots employ …

A versatile vision-pheromone-communication platform for swarm robotics

T Liu, X Sun, C Hu, Q Fu, S Yue - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a versatile platform for swarm robotics research. It integrates multiple
pheromone communication with a dynamic visual scene along with real time data …

Hardware Validation of Adaptive Fault Diagnosis in Swarm Robots

J O'Keeffe, AG Millard - Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic …, 2023 - Springer
Robot swarms are vulnerable to faults and failures in individual agents. This can be
particularly disruptive where an individual has only partially failed and remains in …

SpinBot: An autonomous, externally actuated robot for swarm applications

A SaLoutos, M Rubenstein - Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Complexity, cost, and power requirements of individual robots are large factors in limiting the
size of robotic swarms. In this paper, we present a prototype robot, the SpinBot, that is …

An amalgamation of hormone inspired arbitration systems for application in robot swarms

J Wilson, J Timmis, A Tyrrell - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Previous work has shown that virtual hormone systems can be engineered to arbitrate
swarms of robots between sets of behaviours. These virtual hormones act similarly to their …

Check for Hardware Validation of Adaptive Fault Diagnosis in Swarm Robots

J O'Keeffe, AG Millard - … 2023, Cambridge, UK, September 13–15 …, 2023 - books.google.com
Robot swarms are vulnerable to faults and failures in individual agents. This can be
particularly disruptive where an individual has only partially failed and remains in …