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2013


Swarm Robotics: A Review from the Swarm Engineering Perspective
Brambilla M., Ferrante E., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 7, Number 1, 2013, In press
doi: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/link/IridiaTr2012-014.pdf

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
Dorigo M., Floreano D., Gambardella L.M., Mondada F., Nolfi S., Baaboura T., Birattari M., Bonani M., Brambilla M., Brutschy A., Burnier D., Campo A., Christensen A.L., Decugničre A., Ducatelle F., Ferrante E., Förster A., Guzzi J., Longchamp V., Magnenat S., Mathews N., Montes de Oca M., O'Grady R., Pinciroli C., Pini G., Roberts J., Sperati V., Stirling T., Stranieri A., Stützle T., Trianni V., Tuci E., Turgut A.E.
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2013, In press
doi: http://www.idsia.ch/~gianni/Papers/Swarmanoid-techrep.pdf

Socially-Mediated Negotiation for Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport
Ferrante E., Brambilla M., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer-Verlag, Pages 571-583, Volume 83, 2013
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_41

The k-Unanimity Rule for Self-organized Decision Making in Swarms of Robots
Scheidler A., Brutschy A., Ferrante E., Dorigo M.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 2013, Submitted
doi: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/link/IridiaTr2011-023.pdf
 

2012


Self-organized flocking with conflicting goal directions
Ferrante E., Sun W., Turgut A.E., Dorigo M., Birattari M., Wenseleers T.
In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), 2012

The Automatic Design of Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Lopez-Ibanez M., Stützle T.
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 16, Number 6, Pages 861-875, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2011.2182651

An Experimental Analysis of Design Choices of Multi-objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Lopez-Ibanez M., Stützle T.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 6, Number 3, Pages 207--232, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-012-0070-7

Automatic Generation of Multi-objective ACO Algorithms for the Bi-objective Knapsack
Bezerra L.C.T., Lopez-Ibanez M., Stützle T.
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012), M. Dorigo and others (editors), Springer-Verlag, Pages 37-48, Volume 7641, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9_4

Analysing an Evolved Robotic Behaviour Using a Biological Model of Collegial Decision Making
Francesca G., Brambilla M., Trianni V., Dorigo M., Birattari M.
In From Animals to Animats 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Pages 381-390, Volume 7426, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33093-3_38

A Critical Analysis of Parameter Adaptation in Ant Colony Optimization.
Pellegrini P., Stützle T., Birattari M.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 6, Number 1, Pages 23-48, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-011-0061-0

Property-driven design for swarm robotics
Brambilla M., Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , Pages 139-146 , Volume 1, 2012
doi: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2343596

Analysing Robot Swarm Decision-Making with Bio-PEPA
Massink M., Brambilla M., Latella D., Dorigo M.
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012), M. Dorigo and others (editors), Springer-Verlag, Pages 25-36, Volume 7461, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9_3

ARGoS: a modular, parallel, multi-engine simulator for multi-robot systems
Pinciroli C., Trianni V., O'Grady R., Pini G., Brutschy A., Brambilla M., Mathews N., Ferrante E., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Birattari M., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M.
Swarm Intelligence , Volume 6, Number 4, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-012-0072-5

Continuous Optimization Algorithms for Tuning Real and Integer Parameters of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms
Yuan Z., Montes de Oca M., Birattari M., Stützle T.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 6, Number 1, Pages 49-75, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-011-0065-9

Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring
O'Grady R., Christensen A.L., Groß R., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the IROS 2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring, 2012
doi: http://wrem2012.isr.uc.pt/Papers/OGrady_WREM2012.pdf

Supervised Morphogenesis: Morphology Control of Ground-based Self-Assembling Robots by Aerial Robots
Mathews N., Stranieri A., Scheidler A., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), Pages 97-104, Volume 1, 2012
doi: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2343590

Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Specialization
Brutschy A., Tran N., Baiboun N., Frison M., Pini G., Roli A., Dorigo M., Birattari M.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 60, Number 11, Pages 1408 -1420, November, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.05.018

Self-organized Task Allocation to Sequentially Interdependent Tasks in Swarm Robotics
Brutschy A., Pini G., Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, December, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10458-012-9212-y

An ACO Algorithm Benchmarked on the BBOB Noiseless Function Testbed
Liao T., Molina D., Stützle T., Montes de Oca M., Dorigo M.
In GECCO (Companion), Pages 159-166, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2330784.2330809

Multi-armed Bandit Formulation of the Task Partitioning Problem in Swarm Robotics
Pini G., Brutschy A., Francesca G., Dorigo M., Birattari M.
In Proceedings of 8th International Conference, ANTS 2012, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Pages 109-120, Volume 7461, 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9_10

Majority Rule with Differential Latency: An Absorbing Markov Chain to Model Consensus
Valentini G., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS 2012,, 2012
doi: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/link/IridiaTr2012-006.pdf

Self-Organized Flocking with a Mobile Robot Swarm: a Novel Motion Control Method
Ferrante E., Turgut A.E., Huepe C., Stranieri A., Pinciroli C., Dorigo M.
Adaptive Behavior, Volume 20, Pages 460-477, October , 2012
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712312462248

Explicit and implicit directional information transfer in collective motion
Ferrante E., Turgut A.E., Huepe C., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Alife 13), MIT Press (editors), Pages 551–577, Volume 13, 2012
doi: http://code.ulb.ac.be/dbfiles/FerTurHue-etal2012alife.pdf

Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly
Mathews N., Christensen A.L., O'Grady R., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 2678-2679, 2012
doi: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/?paper=MatChrOgr-etal2012:iros.pdf
 

2011


Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly Based on Active Recruitment and Guidance
Mathews N., Christensen A.L., O'Grady R., Rétornaz P., Bonani M., Mondada F., Dorigo M.
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 4762-4769, 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2011.6094854

Task partitioning in swarms of robots: An adaptive method for strategy selection
Pini G., Brutschy A., Frison M., Roli A., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 5, Number 3-4, Pages 283-304, 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-011-0060-1

Ant Colony Optimization
Dorigo M., Montes de Oca M., Oliveira S., Stützle T.
In Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, J. J. Cochran (editors), John Wiley and Sons, Volume 1, Pages 114–125, 2011
doi: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470400531.eorms0030/full

Improving Performance via Population Growth and Local Search: The Case of the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
Aydin D., Liao T., Montes de Oca M., Stützle T.
In Artificial Evolution, Jin-Kao Hao and Pierrick Legrand and Pierre Collet and Nicolas Monmarche and Evelyne Lutton and Marc Schoenauer (editors), Springer-Verlag , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7401, Pages 85-96, 2011
doi: dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35533-2_8

Majority-Rule Opinion Dynamics with Differential Latency: A Mechanism for Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making
Montes de Oca M., Ferrante E., Scheidler A., Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
Swarm Intelligence, Volume 5, Number 3-4, Pages 305-327, 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-011-0062-z

ARGoS: a Modular, Multi-Engine Simulator for Heterogeneous Swarm Robotics
Pinciroli C., Trianni V., O'Grady R., Pini G., Brutschy A., Brambilla M., Mathews N., Ferrante E., Di Caro G., Ducatelle F., Stirling T., Gutierrez A., Gambardella L.M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages 5027-5034, 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2011.6094829

Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources
Campo A., Garnier S., Dédriche O., Zekkri M., Dorigo M.
PLoS ONE, Volume 6, Number 5, Pages E19888, 2011
doi: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019888

Self-Organized Flocking with a Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Swarm
Stranieri A., Ferrante E., Turgut A.E., Trianni V., Pinciroli C., Birattari M., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2011), T. Lenaerts et al. (editors), MIT Press, Pages 789-796, 2011

An Incremental Ant Colony Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Optimization
Liao T., Montes de Oca M., Aydin D., Stützle T., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'11), N. Krasnogor et al. (editors), ACM Press, Pages 125-132, 2011, Best Paper Award
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2001576.2001594

Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Specialization
Brutschy A., Tran N., Baiboun N., Frison M., Pini G., Roli A., Dorigo M., Birattari M.
In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Roderich Groß, Lyuba Alboul, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Tony J. Prescott, and Jacques Penders (editors), Springer Verlag, Pages 90-101, Volume 6856, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_9

A detailed analysis of the population-based ant colony optimization algorithm for the TSP and the QAP
Oliveira S., Bin Hussin M.S., Stützle T., Dorigo M.
In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011), ACM Press, Pages 13-14, 2011
doi: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2001858.2001866