A survey on swarming with micro air vehicles: Fundamental challenges and constraints

M Coppola, KN McGuire, C De Wagter… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a review and discussion of the challenges that must be solved in order to
successfully develop swarms of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for real world operations. From …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging Technologies in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Medical Automation

M Rezaei, S Saei, SJ Khouzani, ME Rostami… - Kindle, 2023 - preferpub.org
The healthcare industry is undergoing a profound transformation with the emergence of
revolutionary technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and medical automation …

Neural network-based flight control systems: Present and future

SA Emami, P Castaldi, A Banazadeh - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
As the first review in this field, this paper presents an in-depth mathematical view of
Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCSs), particularly those based on artificial neural …

Evolution of collective behaviors for a real swarm of aquatic surface robots

M Duarte, V Costa, J Gomes, T Rodrigues, F Silva… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots.
While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to …

Empirical assessment and comparison of neuro-evolutionary methods for the automatic off-line design of robot swarms

K Hasselmann, A Ligot, J Ruddick, M Birattari - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Neuro-evolution is an appealing approach to generating collective behaviors for robot
swarms. In its typical application, known as off-line automatic design, the neural networks …

Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines

D Howard, AE Eiben, DF Kennedy, JB Mouret… - Nature Machine …, 2019 - nature.com
Natural lifeforms specialize to their environmental niches across many levels, from low-level
features such as DNA and proteins, through to higher-level artefacts including eyes, limbs …

Embodied evolution in collective robotics: a review

N Bredeche, E Haasdijk, A Prieto - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This article provides an overview of evolutionary robotics techniques applied to online
distributed evolution for robot collectives, namely, embodied evolution. It provides a …

Automatic design of robot swarms: achievements and challenges

G Francesca, M Birattari - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Automatic design is a promising approach to the design of control software for robot swarms.
In an automatic design method, the design problem is cast into an optimization problem and …

Biodiversity in evolved voxel-based soft robots

E Medvet, A Bartoli, F Pigozzi, M Rochelli - Proceedings of the Genetic …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In many natural environments, there are different forms of living creatures that successfully
accomplish the same task while being diverse in shape and behavior. This biodiversity is …

Evolutionary modular robotics: Survey and analysis

RJ Alattas, S Patel, TM Sobh - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2019 - Springer
This paper surveys various applications of artificial evolution in the field of modular robots.
Evolutionary robotics aims to design autonomous adaptive robots automatically that can …