There has been increasing interest in deploying a team of robots, or robot swarms, to fulfill certain complicate tasks such as surveillance. Since robot swarms may move to areas of far distance, it is important to have a pervasive networking environment for communications among robots, administrators, and mobile users. In this paper, we first propose a pervasive architecture to integrate wirele...

A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to analyze the physical performance of a swarm-bot as function of its size (number n of s-bots composing it). We present three tasks and the corr...

Swarm robotics is the study of large groups of relatively homogeneous robots and their task solving capabilities. The robots of a swarm robotic system are relatively simple and incapable when compared to the tasks that they are expected to accomplished [10]. Thus, it is important to have enough units and a distributed control law that is effective. Because the individual behaviour of social ins...

This paper outlines some of the key characteristics of the navigation of a swarm of autonomous mobile robots. The results in localisation problem using only one landmark are given. A decentralized path planning algorithm for the swarm which takes into account the physical limitations of the robot and its kinematic model is presented. Moreover, a tracking algorithm is developed to guarantee that...

ions, Analysis Techniques, and Synthesis of Scalable Control Strategies for Robot Swarms Spring Berman Department of Computer Science Harvard University February 28, 2011 Abstract Tasks that require parallelism, redundancy, and adaptation to dynamic, possibly hazardous environments can potentially be performed very efficiently and robustly by a swarm of hundreds to thousands of autonomous robot...

Robot swarms provide a way for a number of simple robots to work together to carry out a task. While swarms have been found to be adaptable, fault-tolerant and widely applicable, designing individual robot algorithms so as to ensure effective and correct swarm behaviour is very difficult. In order to assess swarm effectiveness, either experiments with real robots or computational simulations of...

In swarm robotics, hundreds or thousands of robots have to reach a common goal autonomously. Usually, the robots are small and their abilities are very limited. The autonomy of the robots requires that the robots’ behaviors are purely based on their local perceptions, which are usually rather limited. If the robot swarm is able to join multiple instances of individual perceptions to one big glo...

Swarm robotics is the study of how to design groups of robots that operate without relying on any external infrastructure or on any form of centralized control. In a robot swarm, the collective behavior of the robots results from local interactions between the robots and between the robots and the environment in which they act. The design of robot swarms is guided by swarm intelligence principl...

Cooperation and competition among stand-alone swarm agents increase collective fitness of the whole system. A principally new kind of collective systems is demonstrated by some bacteria and fungi, when they build symbiotic organisms. Symbiotic life forms emerge new functional and self-developmental capabilities, which allow better survival of swarm agents in different environments. In this pape...

In this paper, we study a robot swarm that has to perform task allocation in an environment that features periodic properties. In this environment, tasks appear in different areas following periodic temporal patterns. The swarm has to reallocate its workforce periodically, performing a temporal task allocation that must be synchronized with the environment to be effective. We tackle temporal ta...