Robot teams stay safe with blockchains

A Reina - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
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Blockchain technology secures robot swarms: A comparison of consensus protocols and their resilience to byzantine robots

V Strobel, E Castelló Ferrer, M Dorigo - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Consensus achievement is a crucial capability for robot swarms, for example, for path
selection, spatial aggregation, or collective sensing. However, the presence of …

Making robotic swarms trustful: A blockchain-based perspective

A Thakur, S Sahoo… - … of Computing and …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Lately, the importance of swarm robotics has been recognized in a wide range of areas,
including logistics, surveillance, disaster management, agriculture, and other industrial …

An overview of blockchain integration with robotics and artificial intelligence

V Lopes, LA Alexandre - arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00329, 2018 - arxiv.org
Blockchain technology is growing everyday at a fast-passed rhythm and it's possible to
integrate it with many systems, namely Robotics with AI services. However, this is still a …

Swarm robotics meets blockchain to deploy surveillance missions

G Saldamli, A Razavi - 2020 32nd International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Swarm Robotics can be used in many applications. But they suffer from certain limitations
that make them undesirable in Surveillance applications. Among their limitations is the …

A generic framework for Byzantine-tolerant consensus achievement in robot swarms

H Zhao, A Pacheco, V Strobel, A Reina… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems

E Castelló Ferrer - Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference …, 2019 - Springer
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many industrial applications, from targeted material
delivery to precision farming. However, several of the heterogeneous characteristics that …

If blockchain is the solution, robot security is the problem

EC Ferrer - Frontiers in Blockchain, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Robotics systems of all types are revolutionizing a wide variety of industries—transportation,
manufacturing, and even healthcare—and yet, many essential ingredients for robotics …

Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy

V Strobel, A Pacheco, M Dorigo - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Through cooperation, robot swarms can perform tasks or solve problems that a single robot
from the swarm could not perform/solve by itself. However, it has been shown that a single …

Blockchain-powered collaboration in heterogeneous swarms of robots

JP Queralta, T Westerlund - arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01711, 2019 - arxiv.org
One of the key challenges in the collaboration within heterogeneous multi-robot systems is
the optimization of the amount and type of data to be shared between robots with different …