Cross-inhibition leads to group consensus despite the presence of strongly opinionated minorities and asocial behaviour

A Reina, R Zakir, G De Masi, E Ferrante - Communications Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Strongly opinionated minorities can have a dramatic impact on the opinion dynamics of a
large population. Two factions of inflexible minorities, polarised into two competing opinions …

A generic framework for Byzantine-tolerant consensus achievement in robot swarms

H Zhao, A Pacheco, V Strobel, A Reina… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies show that some security features that blockchains grant to decentralized
networks on the internet can be ported to swarm robotics. Although the integration of …

[PDF][PDF] Review of collective decision making in swarm robotics

R Ibrahim, M Alkilabi, ARH Khayeat, E Tuci - Journal of Al-Qadisiyah for …, 2024 - iasj.net
Review of Collective Decision Making in Swarm Robotics Page 1 Journal of Al-Qadisiyah for
Computer Science and Mathematics, VOL16(1) 2024, PP Comp. 72-80 ∗Corresponding author …

Controlling robot swarm aggregation through a minority of informed robots

A Sion, A Reina, M Birattari, E Tuci - International Conference on Swarm …, 2022 - Springer
Self-organized aggregation is a well studied behavior in swarm robotics as it is the pre-
condition for the development of more advanced group-level responses. In this paper, we …

A comparative study on decision making mechanisms in a simulated swarm of robots

A Almansoori, M Alkilabi, E Tuci - 2022 IEEE Congress on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A swarm of robots can collectively select an option among the available alternatives offered
by the environment through a process known as collective decision-making. This process is …

On the evolution of adaptable and scalable mechanisms for collective decision-making in a swarm of robots

A Almansoori, M Alkilabi, E Tuci - Swarm Intelligence, 2024 - Springer
A swarm of robots can collectively select an option among the available alternatives offered
by the environment through a process known as collective decision-making. This process is …

On the evolution of mechanisms for collective decision making in a swarm of robots

A Almansoori, M Alkilabi, JN Colin, E Tuci - Italian Workshop on Artificial …, 2021 - Springer
Collective decision-making refers to a process of generating a group decision which cannot
be attributed to any agent in the group. In swarm robotics, the individual mechanisms for …

A blockchain-based information market to incentivise cooperation in swarms of self-interested robots

L Van Calck, A Pacheco, V Strobel, M Dorigo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Robot swarms are generally considered to be composed of cooperative agents that, despite
their limited individual capabilities, can perform difficult tasks by working together. However …

On the impact of zealots in a population of susceptible agents in a best-of-n problem within a heterogeneous network

T Njougouo, A Reina, E Tuci, T Carletti - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Both humans and social animals live in groups and are frequently forced to choose between
options with different qualities. When there are no leader agents controlling the group …

On the design of control mechanisms for a site selection task in a simulated swarm of robots

A Almansoori, D Trendafilov, M Alkilabi… - … Conference on Swarm …, 2024 - Springer
Collective decision-making refers to a decision process by a group of agents in which, once
the decision is made, it cannot be attributed to any of its group members. In this study, we …