3 accepted papers
As robot swarms become more viable, efficient solutions to fundamental tasks such as swarm search and collection are required. We propose the distributed deterministic spiral algorithm (DDSA) which generalises a spiral search pattern to robot swarms. While being an effective search strategy in its o…
Finding and retrieving resources in unmapped environments is an important and difficult challenge for robot swarms. Central-place foraging algorithms can be tuned to produce efficient collective strategies for different resource distributions. However, efficiency decreases as swarm size scales up: l…
The complete collection of resources from a predefined search area is a challenging task for autonomous robot swarms. Because naturally-occurring resources are likely to be distributed in clusters, foraging robot swarms can identify and exploit these resource clusters to improve collection efficienc…