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Swarmanoid: A novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
Dorigo, M.; Floreano, D.; Gambardella, L. M.; Mondada, F.; Nolfi, S.; Baaboura, T.; Birattari, M.; Bonani, M.; Brambilla, M.; Brutschy, A.; Burnier, D.Swarm robotics systems are characterized by decentralized control, limited communication between robots, use of local information, and emergence of global behavior. Such systems have shown their potential for flexibility and robustness [1]-[3]. However, existing swarm robotics systems are by and large still limited to displaying simple proof-of-concept behaviors under laboratory conditions. It is our contention...
Parallel formation of differently sized groups in a robotic swarm
Pinciroli, C.; O'Grady, R.; Christensen, A. L.; Biratti, M.; Dorigo, M.Swarm robotics is a branch of collective robotics focused on the study of relatively large groups of robots with limited sensing and communication capabilities. One of the main benefits of such systems is their potential for parallelism. To achieve parallelism in real-world scenarios, it is important to be able to split the swarm into appropriately sized groups for different concurrent tasks.