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Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View] by Dorigo, Marco, Theraulaz, Guy, Trianni, Vito

“…Swarm robotics deals with the design, construction, and deployment of large groups of robots that coordinate and cooperatively solve a problem or perform a…”
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Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective by Brambilla, Manuele, Ferrante, Eliseo, Birattari, Mauro, Dorigo, Marco

“…Swarm robotics is an approach to collective robotics that takes inspiration from the self-organized behaviors of social animals. Through simple rules and local…”
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The Best-of-n Problem in Robot Swarms: Formalization, State of the Art, and Novel Perspectives by Valentini, Gabriele, Ferrante, Eliseo, Dorigo, Marco

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A Design Pattern for Decentralised Decision Making by Reina, Andreagiovanni, Valentini, Gabriele, Fernández-Oto, Cristian, Dorigo, Marco, Trianni, Vito

“…The engineering of large-scale decentralised systems requires sound methodologies to guarantee the attainment of the desired macroscopic system-level behaviour…”
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Blockchain Technology Secures Robot Swarms: A Comparison of Consensus Protocols and Their Resilience to Byzantine Robots by Strobel, Volker, Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Dorigo, Marco

“…Consensus achievement is a crucial capability for robot swarms, for example, for path selection, spatial aggregation, or collective sensing. However, the…”
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Mergeable nervous systems for robots by Mathews, Nithin, Christensen, Anders Lyhne, O’Grady, Rehan, Mondada, Francesco, Dorigo, Marco

“…Robots have the potential to display a higher degree of lifetime morphological adaptation than natural organisms. By adopting a modular approach, robots with…”
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Evolution of Self-Organized Task Specialization in Robot Swarms by Ferrante, Eliseo, Turgut, Ali Emre, Duéñez-Guzmán, Edgar, Dorigo, Marco, Wenseleers, Tom

“…Division of labor is ubiquitous in biological systems, as evidenced by various forms of complex task specialization observed in both animal societies and…”
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A blockchain-based information market to incentivise cooperation in swarms of self-interested robots by Van Calck, Ludéric, Pacheco, Alexandre, Strobel, Volker, Dorigo, Marco, Reina, Andreagiovanni

“…Robot swarms are generally considered to be composed of cooperative agents that, despite their limited individual capabilities, can perform difficult tasks by…”
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A survey on metaheuristics for stochastic combinatorial optimization by Bianchi, Leonora, Dorigo, Marco, Gambardella, Luca Maria, Gutjahr, Walter J.

“…Metaheuristics are general algorithmic frameworks, often nature-inspired, designed to solve complex optimization problems, and they are a growing research area…”
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Self-organized task allocation to sequentially interdependent tasks in swarm robotics by Brutschy, Arne, Pini, Giovanni, Pinciroli, Carlo, Birattari, Mauro, Dorigo, Marco

“…In this article we present a self-organized method for allocating the individuals of a robot swarm to tasks that are sequentially interdependent. Tasks that…”
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Metaphor-based metaheuristics, a call for action: the elephant in the room by Aranha, Claus, Camacho Villalón, Christian L., Campelo, Felipe, Dorigo, Marco, Ruiz, Rubén, Sevaux, Marc, Sörensen, Kenneth, Stützle, Thomas

“…Taking inspiration from natural behaviors to devise new optimization algorithms has played an important role in the history of the field of metaheuristics…”
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Collective motion dynamics of active solids and active crystals by Ferrante, Eliseo, Turgut, Ali Emre, Dorigo, Marco, Huepe, Cristián

“…We introduce a simple model of self-propelled particles connected by linear springs that describes a semi-rigid formation of active agents without explicit…”
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Action-based confidence sharing and collective decision making by Coucke, Nicolas, Heinrich, Mary Katherine, Dorigo, Marco, Cleeremans, Axel

“…Joint action research explores how multiple humans can coordinate their movements to achieve common goals. When there is uncertainty about the joint goal,…”
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Reducing Uncertainty in Collective Perception Using Self-Organizing Hierarchy by Jamshidpey, Aryo, Dorigo, Marco, Heinrich, Mary Katherine

“…In collective perception, agents sample spatial data and use the samples to agree on some estimate. In this paper, we identify the sources of statistical…”
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Designing New Metaheuristics: Manual Versus Automatic Approaches by Camacho-Villalón, Christian L., Stützle, Thomas, Dorigo, Marco

“…A metaheuristic is a collection of algorithmic concepts that can be used to define heuristic methods applicable to a wide set of optimization problems for…”
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Learning from humans to build social cognition among robots by Coucke, Nicolas, Heinrich, Mary Katherine, Cleeremans, Axel, Dorigo, Marco

“…Self-organized groups of robots have generally coordinated their behaviors using quite simple social interactions. Although simple interactions are sufficient…”
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An Open-Source UAV Platform for Swarm Robotics Research: Using Cooperative Sensor Fusion for Inter-Robot Tracking by Oguz, Sinan, Heinrich, Mary Katherine, Allwright, Michael, Zhu, Weixu, Wahby, Mostafa, Garone, Emanuele, Dorigo, Marco

“…In this work, we present an open-source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform for research in swarm robotics. In swarm robotics, groups of robots collaborate…”
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Global-to-Local Design for Self-Organized Task Allocation in Swarms by Valentini, Gabriele, Hamann, Heiko, Dorigo, Marco

“…Programming robot swarms is hard because system requirements are formulated at the swarm level (i.e., globally) while control rules need to be coded at the…”
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Self-organized discrimination of resources by Campo, Alexandre, Garnier, Simon, Dédriche, Olivier, Zekkri, Mouhcine, Dorigo, Marco

“…When selecting a resource to exploit, an insect colony must take into account at least two constraints: the resource must be abundant enough to sustain the…”
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Publisher Correction: Mergeable nervous systems for robots by Mathews, Nithin, Christensen, Anders Lyhne, O’Grady, Rehan, Mondada, Francesco, Dorigo, Marco

“…The original version of this Article contained an error in the author contributions section, whereby credit for design of the experiments was not attributed to…”
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