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Awareness and Self-Awareness for Multi-Robot Organisms
Serge Kernbach
Awareness and self-awareness are two different notions related to knowing the environment and itself. In a general context, the mechanism of self-awareness belongs to a class of co…
Robot Companions: Technology for Humans
Serge Kernbach
Creation of devices and mechanisms which help people has a long history. Their inventors always targeted practical goals such as irrigation, harvesting, devices for construction si…
On Three Challenges of Artificial Living Systems and Embodied Evolution
Serge Kernbach
Creating autonomous, self-supporting, self-replicating, sustainable systems is a great challenge. To some extent, understanding life means not only being able to create it from scr…
Collective Energy Foraging of Robot Swarms and Robot Organisms
Serge Kernbach
Cooperation and competition among stand-alone swarm agents increase collective fitness of the whole system. A principally new kind of collective systems is demonstrated by some bac…
Development of a Cost-efficient Autonomous MAV for an Unstructured Indoor Environment
Serge Kernbach, Kristof Jebens
Performing rescuing and surveillance operations with autonomous ground and aerial vehicles become more and more apparent task. Involving unmanned robot systems allows making these…
Swarmrobot.org - Open-hardware Microrobotic Project for Large-scale Artificial Swarms
Serge Kernbach
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the open-hardware microrobotic project swarmrobot.org and the platform Jasmine for building large-scale artificial swarms. The p…