Robustness is key to engineering, automation, and science as a whole. However, the
property of robustness is often underpinned by costly requirements such as over …

Task allocation is an important aspect of many multi-robot systems. The features and
complexity of multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems are dictated by the requirements …

Abstract Purpose of Review Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the
most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial …

The growing interest in robot teams for surveillance or rescue missions entails new
technological challenges. Robots have to move to complete their tasks while maintaining …

In networked multi-robot systems, communication plays a major role defining system's
dynamics and performance. Unfortunately, existing multi-robot simulators do not provide …

Thanks to advances in both computer science and engineering, the divide between robotics
and multi-agent systems is shrinking. Robots are capable of performing an ever wider range …

Mobility within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been widely considered for data
collection tasks, where mobile robots physically collect the data from the sensors and return …

Multi-robot systems are promising tools for many hazardous real-world problems. In
particular, the practical application of swarm robotics was identified as one of the grand …

A cooperation approach with consideration of communication limit is proposed for multi-
robot area exploration, in which all the robots select local destinations satisfying the …

The area of research presented in this chapter focuses on swarm robotics, which is a
particular domain of multi-robot systems (MRS) that embodies the mechanisms of swarm …