Edmund R. Hunt — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Express Yourself: Enabling Large-Scale Public Events Involving Multi-Human-Swarm Interaction for Social Applications with MOSAIX

Merihan Alhafnawi, Maca Gomez-Gutierrez, Edmund R. Hunt, Séverin Lemaignan, Paul J. O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert

ICRA 2025

Robot swarms have the potential to help groups of people with social tasks, given their ability to scale to large numbers of robots and users. Developing multi-human-swarm interaction is therefore crucial to support multiple people interacting with the swarm simultaneously - which is an area that is

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2022

Deliberative Democracy with Robot Swarms

Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert

IROS 2022poster

Decision-making among groups of humans can benefit from open discussion and inclusion of a diversity of opinions, promoting deliberative democracy. In this work, we test whether a swarm of robots can help facilitate decision-making by visually representing the diversity of opinions. We used a swarm…

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2022

MOSAIX: a Swarm of Robot Tiles for Social Human-Swarm Interaction

Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O'Dowd, Sabine Hauert

ICRA 2022poster

MOSAIX is a new robot swarm platform built to be used in social settings. Consisting of up to 100 individual robot Tiles, MOSAIX is a social swarm system, aimed at helping humans in social tasks such as opinion-mixing and brainstorming. MOSAIX also has the potential to be used as a platform to study…

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