6 accepted papers
Recent studies demonstrate the potential of blockchain to enable robots in a swarm to achieve secure consensus about the environment, particularly when robots are homogeneous and perform identical tasks. Typically, robots receive rewards for their contributions to consensus achievement, but no studi…
Recent research has demonstrated that blockchain-enabled robot swarms—where robots coordinate using blockchain technology—can secure robot swarms by neutralizing malicious and malfunctioning robots. This security is achieved through blockchain technology’s consistency properties. However, prior work
Making fast and accurate consensus decisions through local communication and decentralised control in a swarm of simple robots can be a very challenging endeavour. In swarms of robots with limited capabilities, consensus decisions can be made using simple voting rules. In our study, the robots use r…
Recent studies show that some security features that blockchains grant to decentralized networks on the internet can be ported to swarm robotics. Although the integration of blockchain technology and swarm robotics shows great promise, thus far, research has been limited to proof-of-concept scenario…
Modern cities are growing ecosystems that face new challenges due to the increasing population demands. One of the many problems they face nowadays is waste management, which has become a pressing issue requiring new solutions. Swarm robotics systems have been attracting an increasing amount of atte…
We introduce the Kilogrid, a modular and scalable virtualization environment aimed at swarm robotics research with the Kilobot robot. The main purpose of the Kilogrid is to complement the Kilobots by overcoming some of their limitations (i.e., limited sensors and actuators), making it easier to expe…