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Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Order, regularities, and patterns are ubiquitous around us. A flock of birds maneuvering in the sky, the self-organization of social insects, a global pandemic or a traffic jam are examples of complex systems where the macroscopic patterns arise from the m ...

EPFL2023

Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments

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An optimal planning algorithm enables swarms of flying robots to explore unknown environments autonomously and safely. ...

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Hybrid Flock - Formation Control Algorithms

Alcherio Martinoli, Cyrill Silvan Baumann, Jonas Perolini, Emna Tourki

Two prominent categories for achieving coordinated multirobot displacement are flocking and navigation in formation. Both categories have their own body of literature and characteristics, including their respective advantages and disadvantages. While typic ...

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Cellulan World: Interactive Platform to Learn Swarm Behaviors

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Swarming behaviors are ubiquitous in nature, and an important topic to teach and learn. In the learning sciences domain of complex systems understanding, studies have shown that novices tend to assume that centralized control and leadership should exist wh ...

IFAAMAS2022

Underwater soft robot modeling and control with differentiable simulation

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Underwater soft robots are challenging to model and control because of their high degrees of freedom and their intricate coupling with water. In this letter, we present a method that leverages the recent development in differentiable simulation coupled wit ...

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Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Classical models of aerial swarms often describe global coordinated motion as the combination of local interactions that happen at the individual level. Mathematically, these interactions are represented with potential fields. Despite their explanatory suc ...

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Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Qi Yan, Li Jiang

This letter studies the measurement scheduling problem for a group of

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mobile robots moving on a flat surface that are preforming cooperative localization (CL). We consider a scenario in which due to the limited on-board resources such as battery life a ...

2020

SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Among the available solutions for drone swarm simulations, we identified a lack of simulation frameworks that allow easy algorithms prototyping, tuning, debugging and performance analysis. Moreover, users who want to dive in the research field of drone swa ...

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Robot swarms as an educational tool: The Thymio’s way

Francesco Mondada

Robotics provides useful tools for educational purposes, allowing to engage students in learning within disparate domains, from computer science and artificial intelligence – traditionally the main domains for educational robotics – to general education, h ...

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Bidirectional interactions facilitate the integration of a robot into a shoal of zebrafish Danio rerio

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Vaios Papaspyros, Bertrand Eric Collignon

Many studies on collective animal behavior seek to identify the individual rules that underlie collective patterns. However, it was not until the recent advancements of micro-electronic and embedded systems that scientists were able to create mixed groups ...

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Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments

Hybrid Flock - Formation Control Algorithms

Cellulan World: Interactive Platform to Learn Swarm Behaviors

Underwater soft robot modeling and control with differentiable simulation

Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator

Robot swarms as an educational tool: The Thymio’s way

Bidirectional interactions facilitate the integration of a robot into a shoal of zebrafish Danio rerio

Hybrid Flock - Formation Control Algorithms

Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments

Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Bidirectional interactions facilitate the integration of a robot into a shoal of zebrafish Danio rerio

Robot swarms as an educational tool: The Thymio’s way

Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

Cellulan World: Interactive Platform to Learn Swarm Behaviors

Underwater soft robot modeling and control with differentiable simulation

SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator