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Articles in Journals

More recent publications concerning swarm-bots and s-bots can be found at www.swarmanoid.org

Autonomous Self-Assembly in Swarm-Bots
Groß R., Bonani M., Mondada F., Dorigo M.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, volume 22(6), 1115-1130, 2006
Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot systems
Tuci E., Groß R., Trianni V., Mondada F., Bonani M., Dorigo M.
ACM TAAS, Volume 1(2), 115-150, December 2006
Cooperative Hole Avoidance in a Swarm-bot
Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 54, number 2, pp. 97-103
Distributed coordination of simulated robots based on self-organisation
Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S.
Artificial Life Summer 2006, Vol. 12, No. 3: 289-311.
Division of Labour in a Group of Robots Inspired by Ants' Foraging Behaviour
Labella T.H., Dorigo M., Deneubourg J.-L.
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 1(1):4-25. 2006.
Self-Organisation and Communication in Groups of Simulated and Physical Robots
Trianni V., Dorigo M.
Biological Cybernetics 95(3):213--231, 2006
SWARM-BOTS: Physical Interactions in Collective Robotics
Mondada F., Gambardella L.M., Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Dorigo M.
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 12, june 2005, pp. 21-28.
The SWARM-BOTS Project
Dorigo M., Tuci E., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M.
To appear in Kunstliche Intelligenz journal
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot
Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Groß R., Labella T.H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M.
Autonomous Robots, 17(2-3):223-245, 2004
Feeling the Flow of Time through Sensory-Motor Coordination
Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M.
Feeling' the flow of time through sensory/motor coordination, Connection Science, 2004, 16:4, 1--24.
Swarm-Bot: a New Distributed Robotic Concept
Mondada F., Pettinaro G.C., Guignard A., Kwee I., Floreano D., Deneubourg J.-L., Nolfi S., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M.
Autonomous Robots, 17(2-3):193-221, 2004.
Evolving mobile robots able to display collective behaviour
Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Parisi D.
Artificial Life, 9(3):255-267, 2003.
Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize
Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M., Mondada F., Dorigo M.
Ercim News, (53):25-26, 2003.

Articles in Conferences

More recent publications concerning swarm-bots and s-bots can be found at www.swarmanoid.org

Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot
Groß R., Bonani M., Mondada F., Dorigo M.
In K. Murase, K. Sekiyama, N. Kubota, T. Naniwa, and J. Sitte, editors, Proc. of the 3rd Int. Symp. on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, AMiRE 2005, pages 314-322. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
Chain Based Path Formation in Swarms of Robots
Nouyan S., Dorigo M.
In M. Dorigo and L. M. Gambardella and M. Birattari and A. Martinoli and R. Poli and T. Stutzle, editors, Proceedings of ANTS2006, pages 120-131, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M.
In E. Sahin et al., Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Swarm Robotics, In press.
Evolved homogeneous neuro-controllers for robots with different sensory capabilities: coordinated motion and cooperation
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Dorigo M., Federico Vicentini
In S. Nolfi and G. Baldassarre and R. Calabretta and J. C. T. Hallam and D. Marocco and J.A. Meyer and O. Miglino and D. Parisi, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB06), pages 679--690, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Evolving an Integrated Phototaxis and Hole-avoidance Behavior for a Swarm-bot
Christensen A.L.., Dorigo M.
In L. M. Rocha and L. S. Yaeger and M. A. Bedau and D. Floreano and R. L. Goldstone and A. Vespignani, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006
Group Transport Along a Robot Chain in a Self-Organised Robot Colony
Nouyan S., Groß R., Dorigo M., Bonani M., Mondada F.
In Proc. of the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 433--442, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Incremental Evolution of Robot Controllers for a Highly Integrated Task
Christensen A.L.., Dorigo M.
In S. Nolfi and G. Baldassarre and R. Calabretta and J. C. T. Hallam and D. Marocco and J. A. Meyer and O. Miglino and D. Parisi, Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB06), pages 473--484, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble
Groß R., Tuci E., Dorigo M., Bonani M., Mondada F.
In Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2006) 2558-2564
Operational aspects of the evolved signalling behaviour in a group of cooperating and communicating robots
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Dorigo M., Federico Vicentini
In P. Vogt and Y. Sugita and E. Tuci and C. Nehaniv, Proceedings of The 3rd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELCIII) held at SAB06, pages 113--127, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Self-assembly of Mobile Robots - From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony
Groß R., Dorigo M., Masaki Yamakita
In Proc. of the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, pages 487-496, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Transport of an Object by Six Pre-attached Robots Interacting via Physical Links
Groß R., Mondada F., Dorigo M.
In Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2006) 1317-1323
Emergent Collective Decisions in a Swarm of Robots
Trianni V., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS 2005), pages:241-248 June 8-10, 2005
Evolving Aggregation Behaviors for Swarm Robotic Systems: A Systematic Case Study
Bahceci E., Sahin E.
Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California,
Evolving communicating agents that integrate information over time: a real robot experiment
Ampatzis C., Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M.
In CD-ROM Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA 2005), Lille France 2005
Evolving neural mechanisms for an iterated discrimination task: a robot based model
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Dorigo M.
In M.S. Capcarrere, A.A Freitas, P.J. Bentley, C.G. Johnson, and J. Timmis, editors, Prooceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Artificial Life <\em> pages 231--240. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, LNAI3630
Measuring coordination as entropy decrease in groups of linked simulated robots
Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S.
To appear In Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2004)
Probabilistic Aggregation Strategies in Swarm Robotic Systems
Soysal O., Sahin E.
Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2005, Pasadena, California,
Self-assembly on demand in a group of physical autonomous mobile robots navigating rough terrain
O'Grady R., Groß R., Mondada F., Bonani M., Dorigo M.
In M.S. Capcarrere and A.A. Freitas and P.J. Bentley and C.G. Johnson and J. Timmis, editors, Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, pages 272-281, Springer-Verlag, 2004
Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT
Mondada F., Bonani M., Guignard A., Magnenat S., Floreano D., C. Studer
Proceedings of the VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI3630, pp 282-291, Springer Verlag.
Swarm-bot: A Novel Type of Self-Assembling Robot
Dorigo M.
"In K. Murase and K. Sekiyama and N. Kubota and T. Naniwa and J. Sitte, editors, Proceedings of AMiRE 2005 -- 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, pages 3-4, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2005."
SWARM-BOT: An experiment in swarm robotics
Dorigo M.
"In P. Arabshahi and A. Martinoli, editors, Proceedings of SIS 2005 -- 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium,pages 192-200, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2005"
Cooperative Transport of Objects of Different Shapes and Sizes
Groß R., Dorigo M.
In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, and T. Stützle, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004, volume 3172 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 106-117. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
Coordination and Behaviour Integration in Cooperating Simulated Robots
Baldassarre G., Parisi D., Nolfi S.
In S. Schaal, A. Ijspeert, A. Billard, S. Vijayakumar, J. Hallam and J-A. Meyer (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 8: Proceedings of the VIII International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 385-394. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Efficiency and Task Allocation in Prey Retrieval
Labella T.H., Dorigo M., Deneubourg J.-L.
In A.J. Ijspeert, D. Mange, M. Murata, and S. Nishio, editors, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 32-47. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
Evolution of Direct Communication for a Swarm-bot Performing Hole Avoidance
Trianni V., Labella T.H., Dorigo M.
In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, and T. Stutzle, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - Proceedings of ANTS2004 (Fourth International Workshop), volume 3172 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 131-142. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
Evolving a Cooperative Transport Behavior for Two Simple Robots
Groß R., Dorigo M.
In Liardet P., Collet P., Fonlupt C., Lutton E., and Schoenauer M., editors, Artificial Evolution - 6th International Conference, EA 2003, volume 2936 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany (2004) 305-317.
Evolving Functional Self-Assembling in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots
Trianni V., Tuci E., Dorigo M.
In Schaal, S., Ijspeert, A., Billard, A., Vijayakumar, S., Hallam, J., and Meyer, J.-A., editors, From Animals to Animats VIII - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pages 405-414. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Evolving the "feeling" of time through sensory-motor coordination: a robot-based model
Tuci E., Trianni V., Dorigo M.
Proc. of the 8th International conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2004), pages = 1001-1010, 2004, X.~Yao and E.~Burke and J.A.~Lozano and J.~Smith and J.J.~Merelo-Guerv\'os and J.A.~Bullinaria and J.~Rowe and P.~Ti\^no and A.~Kab\`an and H.P.~Schwefel.
Group Transport of an Object to a Target that Only Some Group Members May Sense
Groß R., Dorigo M.
In Yao X., Burke E., Lozano J. A., Smith J., Merelo-Guervós J. J., Bullinaria J. A., Rowe J., Tino P., Kabán A., and Schwefel H.-P., editors, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - 8th International Conference, PPSN VIII, volume 3242 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 852-861. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
Hole Avoidance: Experiments in Coordinated Motion on Rough Terrain
Trianni V., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.
In F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida, and B. Krose, editors, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), pages 29-36, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004. IOS Press.
Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics
Mondada F., Bonani M., Magnenat S., Guignard A., Floreano D.
In Frans Groen, Nancy Amato, Andrea Bonarini, Eiichi Yoshida and Ben Kröse editors, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14, 2004, pages 53-60. IOS Press.
Self-Organised Task Allocation in a Group of Robots
Labella T.H., Dorigo M., Deneubourg J.-L.
In R. Alami, editor, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS04). Toulouse, France, June 23-25, 2004.
The SWARM-BOTS Project
Dorigo M., Tuci E., Groß R., Trianni V., Labella T.H., Nouyan S., Ampatzis C., Deneubourg J.-L., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Mondada F., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M.
In E. Sahin and W. Spears, editors, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Swarm Robotics at SAB 2004, volume 3342 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 31-44. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
Evolution of collective behaviour in a team of physically linked robots
Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Parisi D.
In R. Gunther, A. Guillot, and J.-A. Meyer, editors, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, pages 581-592. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003.
Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in a Swarm of Robots
Trianni V., Groß R., Labella T.H., Sahin E., Dorigo M.
In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim and J. Ziegler, editors, Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2801, pages 865-874, 2003. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
PES: A system for parallelized fitness evaluation of evolutionary methods
Soysal O., Bahceci E., Sahin E.
In A. Yazici and C. Sener, editors, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2869, pages 889-896, 2002. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation
Mondada F., Guignard A., Bonani M., Floreano D., Bär D., Lauria M.
In C. S. George Lee and Junku Yuh, editors, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS 2003), pages 1626-1631, 2003. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
Evolving Mobile Robots Able to Display Collective Behaviours
Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Parisi D.
In C. K. Hemelrijk and E. Bonabeau, editors, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, pages 11-22, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13, 2002. University of Zurich.
Measurement of Space: From Ants to Robots
Sahin E., Franks N.R.
In Proceedings of WGW 2002: EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter, pages 241-247, Bristol, UK, August 14-16, 2002.
Simulation of Nest Assessment Behavior by Ant Scouts
Sahin E., Franks N.R.
In M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro, and M. Sampels, editors, Proceedings of ANTS 2002: From Ants Colonies to Artificial Ants, 3rd International Workshop on Ants Algorithm, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2463: Ant Algorithms, pages 274-282, Berlin, Germany, 2002. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics
Pettinaro G.C., Kwee I., Gambardella L.M., Mondada F., Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Robotics, Stockholm, Sweden, October 7-11, 2002. International Federation of Robotics.
SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities
Mondada F., Pettinaro G.C., Kwee I., Guignard A., Gambardella L.M., Floreano D., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Dorigo M.
In C. K. Hemelrijk and E. Bonabeau, editors, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, pages 11-22, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13, 2002. University of Zurich.
SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots
Sahin E., Labella T.H., Trianni V., Deneubourg J.-L., Rasse P., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.
In A. El Kamel, K. Mellouli, and P. Borne, editors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press.
The importance of viewing cognition as the result of emergent processes occurring at different time scales
Nolfi S., Baldassarre G., Marrocco D.
In T. Asakura and K. Murase, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems - Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality, pages 63-76, Fukui, Japan, 2002. Fukui University.

Chapters in Books

More recent publications concerning swarm-bots and s-bots can be found at www.swarmanoid.org

SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-assembling Robots.
Dorigo M., Tuci E., Trianni V., Groß R., Nouyan S., Ampatzis C., Labella T.H., O'Grady R., Bonani M., Mondada F.
Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice, Gary Y. Yen and David B. Fogel (eds.), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, NY, 2006, 103-135.
The importance of viewing cognition as the result of emergent processes occurring at different time scales
Nolfi S., Baldassarre G., Marrocco D.
K. Murase and T. Asakura, editors.Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality, volume 6 of International Series on Advanced Intelligence, chapter "The importance of viewing cognition as the result of emergent processes occurring at different time scales". World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2003.

Technical Reports

More recent publications concerning swarm-bots and s-bots can be found at www.swarmanoid.org

Chain Formation in a Swarm of Robots
Nouyan S., Dorigo M.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2004-18, IRIDIA - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, March 2004.
Path Formation and Goal Search in Swarm Robotics
Nouyan S.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2004-14, IRIDIA - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, September 2004. DEA Thesis.
Swarm Intelligence techniques for task allocation and sub-task merging in multi-agent systems
Ampatzis C.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2004-19, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, September 2004. DEA thesis
A Review: Pattern Formation and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Systems
Bahceci E., Soysal O., Sahin E.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-03-43. Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Blind area measurement with mobile robots
Girgin S., Sahin E.
Technical report CMU-RI-TR-03-42, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2003.
Evolution of Coordinated Motion Behaviors in a Group of Self-Assembled Robots
Trianni V.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2003-25, IRIDIA - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, May 2003. DEA Thesis.
Prey Retrieval by a Swarm of Robots
Labella T.H.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2003-16, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 2003. DEA thesis.
Swarm-intelligent Robotics in Prey Retrieval Tasks
Groß R.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2003-27, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 2003. DEA thesis.
Modeling Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots
Trianni V., Labella T.H., Groß R., Sahin E., Dorigo M., Deneubourg J.-L.
Technical Report TR/IRIDIA/2002-12, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium, May 2002.
Search for Rescue: an Application for the SWARM-BOT Self-Assembling Robot Concept
Mondada F., Floreano D., Guignard A., Deneubourg J.-L., Gambardella L.M., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.
Technical report LSA2 - I2S - STI, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2002.
SWARM-BOT: A New Concept of Robust All-Terrain Mobile Robotic System
Mondada F., Guignard A., Colot A., Floreano D., Deneubourg J.-L., Gambardella L.M., Nolfi S., Dorigo M.
Technical report, LSA2 - I2S - STI, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2002.
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