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 …

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 …

Managing byzantine robots via blockchain technology in a swarm robotics collective decision making scenario

V Strobel, E Castelló Ferrer, M Dorigo - 2018 - dspace.mit.edu
While swarm robotics systems are often claimed to be highly fault-tolerant, so far research
has limited its attention to safe laboratory settings and has virtually ignored security issues in …

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 …

A blockchain-controlled physical robot swarm communicating via an ad-hoc network

A Pacheco, V Strobel, M Dorigo - International Conference on Swarm …, 2020 - Springer
We present a robot swarm composed of Pi-puck robots that maintain a blockchain network.
The blockchain serves as security layer to neutralize Byzantine robots (faulty …

Robot teams stay safe with blockchains

A Reina - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
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An efficient blockchain‐based approach for cooperative decision making in swarm robotics

PK Singh, R Singh, SK Nandi… - Internet Technology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Swarm robotics is an emerging robotic domain that aims to accomplish complex tasks with
the cooperative effort of a group of simple robots. These robots communicate and share …

Swarmdag: A partition tolerant distributed ledger protocol for swarm robotics

JA Tran, GS Ramachandran, PM Shah, CB Danilov… - Ledger, 2019 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt applications beyond cryptocurrencies.
This work applies the concepts of blockchain technology to swarm robotics applications …

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 …

Towards blockchain-based multi-agent robotic systems: Analysis, classification and applications

I Afanasyev, A Kolotov, R Rezin, K Danilov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Decentralization, immutability and transparency make of Blockchain one of the most
innovative technology of recent years. This paper presents an overview of solutions based …