Featured Application This work aims to review the use of ROS2 as middleware to integrate
heterogeneous hardware and software components in order to enable fixed-base robots to …

Robot Operating System (ROS) has been the mainstream platform for research and
development of robotic applications. This platform is well-known for lacking security features …

Several interesting problems in multi-robot systems can be cast in the framework of
distributed optimization. Examples include multi-robot task allocation, vehicle routing, target …

This letter introduces CrazyChoir, a modular Python framework based on the Robot
Operating System (ROS) 2. The toolbox provides a comprehensive set of functionalities to …

In this article, we consider a large-scale instance of the classical pickup-and-delivery vehicle
routing problem that must be solved by a network of mobile cooperating robots. Robots must …

When considering a system composed of a group of robots, swarm robotics is an approach
that can be used to coordinate this group. These swarms can be inspired or not by social …

Implementing and conducting reproducible experiments on multi-robot hardware platforms
are challenging tasks due to variations in hardware, software, and most importantly the …

Developing reusable software for mobile robots is still challenging. Even more so for swarm
robots, despite the desired simplicity of the robot controllers. Prototyping and experimenting …

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm to control a team of cooperating robots
aiming to protect a target from a set of intruders. Specifically, we model the strategy of the …

Multi-agent robot systems, specifically mobile robots in dynamic environments interacting
with humans, eg, assisting in production environments, have seen an increased interest …