4 papers
Designing robot swarms: a puzzle, a problem, and a mess
David Garzón Ramos, Sabine Hauert
Framing an issue as a puzzle, problem, or mess is an illustrative approach to characterizing the issue's complexity within organizational theory and systems thinking. We use this a…
Collective perception for tracking people with a robot swarm
Miquel Kegeleirs, David Garzón Ramos, Guillermo Legarda Herranz +7
Swarm perception refers to the ability of a robot swarm to utilize the perception capabilities of each individual robot, forming a collective understanding of the environment. Thei…
Leveraging swarm capabilities to assist other systems
Miquel Kegeleirs, David Garzón Ramos, Guillermo Legarda Herranz +6
Most studies in swarm robotics treat the swarm as an isolated system of interest. We argue that the prevailing view of swarms as self-sufficient, independent systems limits the sco…
Automatically designing robot swarms in environments populated by other robots: an experiment in robot shepherding
David Garzón Ramos, Mauro Birattari
Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the…