The use of aerial swarms to solve real-world problems has been increasing steadily,
accompanied by falling prices and improving performance of communication, sensing, and …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

In this paper, we derive an algorithm for enabling a single robotic unmanned aerial vehicle
to herd a flock of birds away from a designated volume of space, such as the air space …

The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate
problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to …

In this paper, we review multi-agent collective behavior algorithms in the literature and
classify them according to their underlying mathematical structure. For each mathematical …

This paper proposes a novel robotic animal herding system based on a network of
autonomous barking drones. The objective of such a system is to replace traditional herding …

A single sheepdog can bring together and manoeuvre hundreds of sheep from one location
to another. Engineers and ecologists are fascinated by this sheepdog herding because of …

Consumer groups are pressuring modern farmers to be more efficient with a focus on better
animal welfare. Herding risks farmer lives, involves stress from farm dogs, and if not …

Information gathering while interacting with other agents under sensing and motion
uncertainty is critical in domains such as driving, service robots, racing, or surveillance. The …