4 accepted papers
Swarm robotics focuses on designing and coordinating large groups of relatively simple robots to perform tasks in a decentralised and collective manner. The swarm provides a resilient and flexible solution for many applications. However, contemporary swarm robots have a significant power problem in
This paper presents a framework for producing robotic fabrics using square lattice formations of interlinked Kilobot modules. The framework supports: (i) fabrics of arbitrary size and shape; (ii) different types of deformable links, namely springs and rods; (iii) easy plug-and-play reconfigurability
Research with swarm robotics systems can be complicated, time-consuming, and often expensive in terms of space and resources. The situation is even worse for studies involving multiple, possibly heterogeneous robot swarms. Augmented reality can provide an interesting solution to these problems, as d
We investigate decentralised decision-making, in which a robot swarm is tasked with selecting the best-quality option among a set of alternatives. Individual robots are simplistic as they only perform diffusive search, make local noisy estimates of the options' quality, and exchange information with…