Balancing collective exploration and exploitation in multi-agent and multi-robot systems: A review

HL Kwa, J Leong Kit, R Bouffanais - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multi-agent systems and multi-robot systems have been recognized as unique solutions to
complex dynamic tasks distributed in space. Their effectiveness in accomplishing these …

A systematic review on particle swarm optimization towards target search in the swarm robotics domain

MGM Hamami, ZH Ismail - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is one of the research fields that has continuously attracted
researcher attention in these last two decades. The flexibility and a well-known …

Self-organizing cooperative pursuit strategy for multi-USV with dynamic obstacle ships

Z Sun, H Sun, P Li, J Zou - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
A self-organizing cooperation strategy for multiple unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to
pursue intelligent evaders in the case of a dynamic obstacle vessel is proposed. Firstly, a …

The two-wheeled robotic swarm concept for mars exploration

A Petrovsky, I Kalinov, P Karpyshev, D Tsetserukou… - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) launched in 2021 show the growing
interest in the robot's mobility improvement and application of cooperative robotics …

Effect of swarm density on collective tracking performance

HL Kwa, J Philippot, R Bouffanais - Swarm Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
How does the size of a swarm affect its collective action? Despite being arguably a key
parameter, no systematic and satisfactory guiding principles exist to select the number of …

Transition from simple to complex contagion in collective decision-making

N Horsevad, D Mateo, RE Kooij, A Barrat… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
How does the spread of behavior affect consensus-based collective decision-making among
animals, humans or swarming robots? In prior research, such propagation of behavior on …

Adaptivity: a path towards general swarm intelligence?

HL Kwa, JL Kit, N Horsevad, J Philippot… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The field of multi-robot systems (MRS) has recently been gaining increasing popularity
among various research groups, practitioners, and a wide range of industries. Compared to …

Adversarial search and tracking with multiagent reinforcement learning in sparsely observable environment

Z Wu, S Ye, M Natarajan, L Chen… - … Symposium on Multi …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study a search and tracking (S&T) problem where a team of dynamic search agents must
collaborate to track an adversarial, evasive agent. The heterogeneous search team may …

A novel approach for swarm robotic target searches based on the DPSO algorithm

Y Du - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperation between individuals plays a very important role when swarm robots search for
targets. In this article, we present a novel approach that is based on the distributed particle …

Swarm robots cooperative and persistent distribution modeling and optimization based on the smart community logistics service framework

M Zhang, B Yang - Algorithms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The high efficiency, flexibility, and low cost of robots provide huge opportunities for the
application and development of intelligent logistics. Especially during the COVID-19 …