The use of UAVs in areas ranging from agriculture over urban services to entertainment or
simply as a hobby has rapidly grown over the last years. Regarding serious/commercial …

Social insects are biological benchmarks of self-organization and decentralized control.
Their integrated yet accessible nature makes them ideal models for the investigation of …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with acceptable performance are becoming
commercially available at an affordable cost. Due to this, the use of drones for real-time data …

The similarities between the structures built by social insects and by humans have led to a
convergence of interests between biologists and architects. This new, de facto …

Swarm robotics is the study of how in de pen dent robots can interact as a group, giving rise
to collective be hav iors that a single such robot could not achieve on its own (Dorigo et al …

Rapidly increasing pyrethroid insecticide resistance and changes in vector biting and resting
behavior pose serious challenges in malaria control. Mosquito repellents, especially spatial …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network type structure (like the Internet) that
connects (unique) objects and things. Sensors and devices, integrated into all types of …

In this article, the author investigates information processing algorithms in order to determine
the relative UAV motion parameters in a group flight and proposes an algorithm for …

This book offers a biosemiotic architectural treatise. An amalgamation of biosemiotic and
architectural theory, it is the first book of its kind. Fundamentally concerned with issues of …

This chapter reports on a family of nature-inspired algorithms that were successfully used to
deploy a drone-based wireless sensor network into (simulated) indoor environments. The …