Publications
Publications
Edited books
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface..
- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011. Springer Verlag.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface..
Journal articles
- Aerobatic tic-toc control of planar quadcopters via reinforcement learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 2140-2147. View this article in WRRO
- Control of centrally-powered variable pitch propeller quadcopters subject to propeller faults. Aerospace Science and Technology, 120. View this article in WRRO
- Modular fluidic propulsion robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 37(2), 532-549. View this article in WRRO
- Sparse robot swarms: Moving swarms to real-world applications. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7. View this article in WRRO
- Controllability analysis and controller design for variable‐pitch propeller quadcopters with one propeller failure. Advanced Control for Applications, 2(2). View this article in WRRO
- SwarmCom: an infra-red-based mobile ad-hoc network for severely constrained robots. AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS, 44(1), 93-114. View this article in WRRO
- Guest editorial: Special issue on distributed robotics — from fundamentals to applications. Autonomous Robots, 42(8), 1521-1523. View this article in WRRO
- Finding Consensus Without Computation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3), 1346-1353. View this article in WRRO
- Control of Synchronization Regimes in Networks of Mobile Interacting Agents. Physical Review Applied, 7(5), ---. View this article in WRRO
- Turing learning: a metric-free approach to inferring behavior and its application to swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 10(3), 211-243. View this article in WRRO
- Supervisory control theory applied to swarm robotics. Swarm Intelligence, 10(1), 65-97. View this article in WRRO
- A Self-Organising Model of Thermoregulatory Huddling.. PLoS Comput Biol, 11(9), e1004283. View this article in WRRO
- Occlusion-Based Cooperative Transport with a Swarm of Miniature Mobile Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 31(2), 307-321. View this article in WRRO
- Self-organized aggregation without computation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH, 33(8), 1145-1161. View this article in WRRO
- ANTS 2012 special issue. SWARM INTELLIGENCE, 7(2-3), 79-81.
- Why 'GSA: a gravitational search algorithm' is not genuinely based on the law of gravity. NATURAL COMPUTING, 11(4), 719-720.
- TAROS2011. ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, 60(11), 1355-1355.
- ANTS 2010 special issue. SWARM INTELLIGENCE, 5(3-4), 143-147.
- From swarm robotics to smart materials. NEURAL COMPUT APPL, 19(6), 785-786.
- Self-assembly strategies in a group of autonomous mobile robots. AUTON ROBOT, 28(4), 439-455.
- Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies. IEEE T EVOLUT COMPUT, 13(4), 695-711.
- Towards group transport by swarms of robots. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTATION, 1(1-2), 1-13.
- Self-Assembling Robots.. Künstliche Intell., 22, 61-63.
- Evolution of solitary and group transport behaviors for autonomous robots capable of self-assembling. ADAPT BEHAV, 16(5), 285-305.
- Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale. P IEEE, 96(9), 1490-1508.
- Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments. J R SOC INTERFACE, 5(27), 1193-1202.
- Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants.. Swarm Intell., 1, 81-94.
- Cooperation Through Self-Assembly in Multi-Robot Systems. ACM T AUTON ADAP SYS, 1(2), 115-150.
- Autonomous self-assembly in swarm-bots. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, 22(6), 1115-1130.
- Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarm-bot. AUTON ROBOT, 17(2-3), 223-245.
- Biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Chapters
- Correction to: Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp. C1-C1). Springer International Publishing
- Self-assembly In Gargaud M (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 2239-2240). Springer
- Swarm Intelligence in Optimization and Robotics In Kacprzyk J & Pedrycz W (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence (pp. 1291-1309). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
- Part f swarm intelligence, Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence (pp. 1289).
- S, Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 2227-2227). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Self-Assembly, Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1-2). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- The Swarm-bot experience: Strength and mobility through physical cooperation In Kernbach S (Ed.), Handbook of Collective Robotics: Fundamentals and Challenges (pp. 49-79). Pan Stanford Publishing
- Self assembly In Gargaud M (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
- S, Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1487-1487). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-assembling Robots In Yen GY & Fogel DB (Ed.), Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice (pp. 103-135). NY: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Conference proceedings papers
- Moving mixtures of active and passive elements with robots that do not compute. Swarm Intelligence: 13th International Conference, ANTS 2022, Málaga, Spain, November 2–4, 2022, Proceedings (pp 183-195). Cham, 2 November 2022 - 4 November 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Multi-Operator Control of Connectivity-Preserving Robot Swarms Using Supervisory Control Theory. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Design of a Switched Control Lyapunov Function for Mobile Robots Aggregation. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATICS IN CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS (ICINCO) (pp 492-499) View this article in WRRO
- Distributed optimisation and deconstruction of bridges by self-assembling robots. Robotics: Science and System XVIII. New York, NY, USA, 27 June 2022 - 1 July 2022. View this article in WRRO
- A minimalist solution to the multi-robot barrier coverage problem. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2021, Vol. 13054 (pp 349-353). Lincoln, United Kingdom, 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Distributed self-assembly of cantilevers by force-aware robots. Proceedings of 2021 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) (pp 110-118). Cambridge, UK, 4 November 2021 - 5 November 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Area coverage in two-dimensional grid worlds using computation-free agents. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 13054 (pp 360-364). Lincoln, United Kingdom, 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Sampling-based search for a semi-cooperative target. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 4774-4781). Las Vegas, NV, USA, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Supervisory control of robot swarms using public events. Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 7193-7199). Paris, France, 31 May 2020 - 31 August 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Turing learning with hybrid discriminators: combining the best of active and passive learning. GECCO 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp 121-122). New York, NY, USA, 8 July 2020 - 12 July 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Self-Reconfiguration in Two-Dimensions via Active Subtraction with Modular Robots. Robotics: Science and Systems View this article in WRRO
- Decentralized Pose Control of Modular Reconfigurable Robots Operating in Liquid Environments. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 4855-4861) View this article in WRRO
- Decentralized Gathering of Stochastic, Oblivious Agents on a Grid: A Case Study with 3D M-Blocks. International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, MRS 2019 (pp 245-251) View this article in WRRO
- A soft-bodied modular reconfigurable robotic system composed of interconnected Kilobots. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (pp 50-52). New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 22 August 2019 - 23 August 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Beyond Local Nash Equilibria for Adversarial Networks. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1021 (pp 73-89) View this article in WRRO
- Turn-minimizing multirobot coverage. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2019-May (pp 1014-1020) View this article in WRRO
- Spatial Coverage Without Computation. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 9674-9680), 20 May 2019 - 24 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Towards a Swarm Robotic System for Autonomous Cereal Harvesting. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 20th Annual Conference (pp 458-461), 3 July 2019 - 5 July 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Boundary Detection in a Swarm of Kilobots. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 20th Annual Conference, TAROS 2019 (pp 462-466), 3 July 2019 - 5 July 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Balanced task allocation by partitioning the multiple traveling salesperson problem. 2019 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp 1479-1479). Montreal, Canada, 13 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
- A Soft-Bodied Modular Reconfigurable Robotic System Composed of Interconnected Kilobots. 2019 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTI-ROBOT AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (MRS 2019) (pp 53-55)
- Re-establishing communication in teams of mobile robots. 2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS) (pp 7947-7954) View this article in WRRO
- HyMod: A 3-DOF Hybrid Mobile and Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot and its Extensions. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium, Vol. 6 (pp 401-414). Cham, Switzerland, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Evo-bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-Assembling Artificial Organisms. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium, Vol. 6 (pp 373-385). Cham, Switzerland, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Emergence and inhibition of synchronization in robot swarms. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium, Vol. 6 (pp 475-486). Cham, Switzerland, 7 November 2016 - 9 November 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Preface. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 6 (pp vii-viii)
- Generalizing GANs: A Turing Perspective. Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 4 December 2017 - 9 December 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Shepherding with robots that do not compute. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL 2017, 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Probabilistic supervisory control theory (pSCT) applied to swarm robotics. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, Vol. 3 (pp 1395-1403) View this article in WRRO
- Human-Robot Swarm Interaction with Limited Situational Awareness (pp 125-136) View this article in WRRO
- OpenSwarm: an event-driven embedded operating system for miniature robots. Proceedings of IROS 2016 (pp 4483-4490), 9 October 2016 - 14 October 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Using Google Glass in Human–Robot Swarm Interaction (pp 196-201) View this article in WRRO
- Human Management of a Robotic Swarm (pp 282-287) View this article in WRRO
- Modular Hydraulic Propulsion: A Robot that Moves by Routing Fluid Through Itself. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 5189-5196), 16 May 2016 - 21 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Recent Advances in Swarm Robotics. USES Conference Proceedings
- Firefly-inspired synchronization in swarms of mobile agents. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, Vol. 1 (pp 279-286) View this article in WRRO
- Towards a 3-DOF Mobile and Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot. IROS 2014 Modular and Swarm Robotics Workshop. Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 14 September 2014.
- Evo-bots: A Modular Robotics Platform with Efficient Energy Sharing. IROS 2014 Modular and Swarm Robotics Workshop. Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 14 September 2014.
- HiGen: A High-Speed Genderless Mechanical Connection Mechanism, with Single-Sided Disconnect, for Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots. Proc. of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014 (pp 3926-3932). Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 18 May 2014.
- Application of Supervisory Control Theory to Swarms of e-puck and Kilobot Robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp 62-73). Brussels, Belgium, 10 September 2014 - 12 May 2014.
- Coevolutionary Learning of Swarm Behaviors Without Metrics. Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp 201-208). Vancouver, Canada, 12 July 2014 - 15 July 2014.
- Clustering objects with robots that do not compute. 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, Vol. 1 (pp 421-428)
- Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems with Binary Sensors. 11th Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp 325-338). Baltimore, ML
- A Strategy for Transporting Tall Objects with a Swarm of Miniature Mobile Robots. 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013 (pp 863-869)
- A Coevolutionary Approach to Learn Animal Behavior Through Controlled Interaction. GECCO'13: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (pp 223-230)
- A minimal model of the phase transition into thermoregulatory huddling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 381-383)
- Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring. IROS 2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring
- A stochastic self-reconfigurable modular robot with mobility control. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 416-417)
- Segregation in swarms of e-puck robots based on the Brazil nut effect. 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track, Vol. 2 (pp 688-695)
- Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems with Binary Sensors.. DARS, Vol. 104 (pp 355-367)
- Forming nested 3D structures based on the brazil nut effect. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 394-395)
- Cooperative multi-robot box pushing inspired by human behaviour. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 380-381)
- Vision-based segregation behaviours in a swarm of autonomous robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 428-429)
- Towards an autonomous evolution of non-biological physical organisms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 5777 LNAI(PART 1) (pp 173-180)
- Swarm-bots to the rescue. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 5777 LNAI(PART 1) (pp 165-172)
- Segregation in Swarms of Mobile Robots Based on the Brazil Nut Effect. 2009 IEEE-RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (pp 4349-4356)
- Division of labour in self-organised groups. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 10, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 5040 (pp 426-436)
- Performance benefits of self-assembly in a swarm-bot.. IROS (pp 2381-2387)
- Fifty Years of Self-Assembly Experimentation. Workshop and Tutorials - CD, 2007 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Transport of an object by six pre-attached robots interacting via physical links. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-10 (pp 1317-1323)
- Object transport by modular robots that self-assemble. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-10 (pp 2558-2564)
- Group Transport Along a Robot Chain in a Self-Organised Robot Colony. INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 9 (pp 433-442)
- Self-assembly of Mobile Robots: From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony. INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 9 (pp 487-496)
- Autonomous self-assembly in a swarm-bot. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) (pp 314-322)
- Enhancing cooperative transport using negotiation of goal direction. Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference
- Negotiation of goal direction for cooperative transport. ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 4150 (pp 191-202)
- Self-assembly on demand in a group of physical autonomous mobile robots navigating rough terrain. ADVANCES IN ARTIFICAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 3630 (pp 272-281)
- The SWARM-BOTS project. SWARM ROBOTICS, Vol. 3342 (pp 31-44)
- Group transport of an object to a target that only some group members may sense. PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE - PPSN VIII, Vol. 3242 (pp 852-861)
- Cooperative transport of objects of different shapes and sizes. ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 3172 (pp 106-117)
- Evolving a cooperative transport behavior for two simple robots. ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION, Vol. 2936 (pp 305-316)
- Evolving aggregation behaviors in a swarm of robots. ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 2801 (pp 865-874)
- Evolving Chess Playing Programs.. GECCO (pp 740-747)
- Multi-Robot Systems Research: A Data-Driven Trend Analysis. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, 28 November 2022 - 30 November 2022.