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 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 …

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 …

Blockchain technology for robot swarms: A shared knowledge and reputation management system for collective estimation

M Dorigo - … : 11th International Conference, ANTS 2018, Rome …, 2018 - books.google.com
In swarm robotics research, it is often assumed that robots do not have access to shared
knowledge. By sharing knowledge, however, it may become easier to determine whether the …

Following leaders in byzantine multirobot systems by using blockchain technology

EC Ferrer, E Jiménez, JL Lopez-Presa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interest in multirobot systems is rising rapidly both in academia and in industry. The use of
multiple robots working in a coordinated way, rather than a single robot, has several …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on blockchain in robotics: Issues, opportunities, challenges and future directions

USPS Aditya, R Singh, PK Singh, A Kalla - Journal of Network and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Robotics is the multi-disciplinary domain that is booming in today's world, and expanding its
roots deep into various fields of research, manufacturing industries, healthcare, and even in …

Robot process automation in blockchain

RK Tailor, R Pareek, A Khang - The Data-Driven Blockchain …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Blockchain is being referred to as the 5th innovative computer invention. In simple words,
blockchain is a block of records. In a nutshell, it is a shared ledger of unchangeable and …

Blockchain-empowered multi-robot collaboration to fight COVID-19 and future pandemics

SH Alsamhi, B Lee - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This conceptual paper overviews how blockchain technology is involving the operation of
multi-robot collaboration for combating COVID-19 and future pandemics. Robots are a …