An introduction to swarm robotics

I Navarro, F Matía - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Swarm robotics is a field of multi‐robotics in which large number of robots are coordinated in
a distributed and decentralised way. It is based on the use of local rules, and simple robots …

[HTML][HTML] Swarm robotics: A perspective on the latest reviewed concepts and applications

PGF Dias, MC Silva, GP Rocha Filho, PA Vargas… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Known as an artificial intelligence subarea, Swarm Robotics is a developing study field
investigating bio-inspired collaborative control approaches and integrates a huge collection …

Review of methodologies and tasks in swarm robotics towards standardization

N Nedjah, LS Junior - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Sambot: A self-assembly modular robot system

H Wei, Y Chen, J Tan, T Wang - IEEE/ASME transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design and structure of a self-assembly modular robot (Sambot) are presented in this
paper. Each module has its own autonomous mobility and can connect with other modules …

Make robots be bats: specializing robotic swarms to the Bat algorithm

P Suárez, A Iglesias, A Gálvez - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Bat algorithm is a powerful nature-inspired swarm intelligence method proposed by Prof. Xin-
She Yang in 2010, with remarkable applications in industrial and scientific domains …

Low-cost collaborative localization for large-scale multi-robot systems

A Prorok, A Bahr, A Martinoli - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large numbers of collaborating robots are advantageous for solving distributed problems. In
order to efficiently solve the task at hand, the robots often need accurate localization. In this …

The Khepera IV mobile robot: Performance evaluation, sensory data and software toolbox

JM Soares, I Navarro, A Martinoli - Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics …, 2016 - Springer
Taking distributed robotic system research from simulation to the real world often requires
the use of small robots that can be deployed and managed in large numbers. This has led to …

[HTML][HTML] Provable self-organizing pattern formation by a swarm of robots with limited knowledge

M Coppola, J Guo, E Gill, GCHE de Croon - Swarm Intelligence, 2019 - Springer
In this paper we present a procedure to automatically design and verify the local behavior of
robots with highly limited cognition. All robots are: anonymous, homogeneous, non …

BLAS: Broadcast relative localization and clock synchronization for dynamic dense multiagent systems

Q Shi, X Cui, S Zhao, S Xu, M Lu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatiotemporal information plays crucial roles in a multiagent system (MAS). However, for a
highly dynamic and dense MAS in unknown environments, estimating its spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Generic, scalable and decentralized fault detection for robot swarms

D Tarapore, AL Christensen, J Timmis - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Robot swarms are large-scale multirobot systems with decentralized control which means
that each robot acts based only on local perception and on local coordination with …