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 …

Optimal network topology for responsive collective behavior

D Mateo, N Horsevad, V Hassani, M Chamanbaz… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Animals, humans, and multi-robot systems operate in dynamic environments, where the
ability to respond to changing circumstances is paramount. An effective collective response …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal swarm strategy for dynamic target search and tracking

HL Kwa, JL Kit, R Bouffanais - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2020 - aamas.csc.liv.ac.uk
Dynamic target search and tracking represents one of the most challenging problems for
multi-agent systems. Effective strategies are critically needed to address numerous real …

Effects of shady environments on fish collective behavior

HV Ribeiro, MR Acre, JD Faulkner, LR da Cunha… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Despite significant efforts devoted to understanding the underlying complexity and
emergence of collective movement in animal groups, the role of different external settings on …

[图书][B] Perturbation, behavioural feedbacks, and population dynamics in social animals: when to leave and where to go

D Oro - 2020 - books.google.com
This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong
disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals …

Coherent collective behaviour emerging from decentralised balancing of social feedback and noise

I Rausch, A Reina, P Simoens, Y Khaluf - Swarm Intelligence, 2019 - Springer
Decentralised systems composed of a large number of locally interacting agents often rely
on coherent behaviour to execute coordinated tasks. Agents cooperate to reach a coherent …

The emergence of a collective sensory response threshold in ant colonies

A Gal, DJC Kronauer - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The sensory response threshold is a fundamental biophysical property of biological systems
that underlies many physiological and computational functions, and its systematic study has …

A distributed active perception strategy for source seeking and level curve tracking

S Al-Abri, F Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Algorithms for multiagent systems to locate a source or to follow a desired level curve of
spatially distributed scalar fields generally require sharing field measurements among the …