Artificial perception for robots operating in outdoor natural environments, including forest
scenarios, has been the object of a substantial amount of research for decades. Regardless …

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

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 …

Europe has been affected by an alarming number of wildfires every year, ravaging nearly
half a million hectares of forestry areas and resulting in an unacceptable amount of human …

Autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality in places with advanced infrastructure to
support their operations. In crowded places, harsh environments, missions that require these …

Mapping and navigating with mobile robots in scenarios with reduced visibility, eg due to
smoke, dust, or fog, is still a big challenge nowadays. In spite of the tremendous advance on …

Mobile robots developed at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) Coimbra feature
ZigBee technology for inter‐robot communication. The main aim of this paper is to …

The robot operating system (ROS) is a well-established and popular open-source robotics
middleware used for rapid prototyping of robotic applications. However, ROS has several …

The exploration of unknown environments is a particularly and intuitively detachable
problem, allowing the division of robotic teams into smaller groups, or even into individuals …

This paper showcases a developed end-user framework for a human-robot collaborative
system for common tasks, such as pick and place. The system is designed for semi …