Swarm robotics is a field of multi‐robotics in which large number of robots are coordinated in
a distributed and decentralised way. It is based on the use of local rules, and simple robots …

The ability to collectively choose the best among a finite set of alternatives is a fundamental
cognitive skill for robot swarms. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of the best-of-n …

We present a review of recent activities in swarm robotic research, and analyse existing
literature in the field to determine how to get closer to a practical swarm robotic system for …

In this article we present a self-organized method for allocating the individuals of a robot
swarm to tasks that are sequentially interdependent. Tasks that are sequentially …

We present two swarm intelligence control mechanisms used for distributed robot path
formation. In the first, the robots form linear chains. We study three variants of robot chains …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive,
whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological …

In this paper, we review half a century of research on the design of systems displaying
(physical) self-assembly of macroscopic components. We report on the experience gained in …

Self-organized collective coordinated behaviour is an impressive phenomenon, observed in
a variety of natural and artificial systems, in which coherent global structures or dynamics …

In this paper, we propose SWARMORPH: a distributed morphology generation mechanism
for autonomous self-assembling mobile robots. Self-organized growth of global …