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Swarm Intelligence
Published in: Swarm Intelligence 1/2013

01-03-2013

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

Authors: Manuele Brambilla, Eliseo Ferrante, Mauro Birattari, Marco Dorigo

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Abstract

Swarm robotics is an approach to collective robotics that takes inspiration from the self-organized behaviors of social animals. Through simple rules and local interactions, swarm robotics aims at designing robust, scalable, and flexible collective behaviors for the coordination of large numbers of robots. In this paper, we analyze the literature from the point of view of swarm engineering: we focus mainly on ideas and concepts that contribute to the advancement of swarm robotics as an engineering field and that could be relevant to tackle real-world applications. Swarm engineering is an emerging discipline that aims at defining systematic and well founded procedures for modeling, designing, realizing, verifying, validating, operating, and maintaining a swarm robotics system. We propose two taxonomies: in the first taxonomy, we classify works that deal with design and analysis methods; in the second taxonomy, we classify works according to the collective behavior studied. We conclude with a discussion of the current limits of swarm robotics as an engineering discipline and with suggestions for future research directions.
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Metadata
Title
Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective
Authors
Manuele Brambilla
Eliseo Ferrante
Mauro Birattari
Marco Dorigo
Publication date
01-03-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Swarm Intelligence / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 1935-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1935-3820
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-012-0075-2

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