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Melanie Schranz, Micha Sende, Martina Umlauft, and Wilfried Elmenreich. Swarm robotic behaviors and current applications. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7(36), 2020. (doi:10.3389/frobt.2020.00036)
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The paper was published as part of a Research Topic on Designing Self-Organization in the Physical Realm in the Frontiers in Robotics and AI journal.
In another paper in this issue,
Danesh Tarapore, Roderich Groß, and Klaus-Peter Zauner. Sparse robot swarms: Moving swarms to real-world applications. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7(36), 2020. (doi:10.3389/frobt.2020.00083)
the authors address a common property of swarms: the underlying assumption that the robots act in close proximity of each other (for example a few body lengths apart), and typically employ uninterrupted, situated, close-range communication for coordination. Many real-world applications, including environmental monitoring and precision agriculture, however, require scalable groups of robots to act jointly over larger distances (e.g., 1000 body lengths), rendering the use of dense swarms impractical. Using a dense swarm for such applications would be invasive to the environment and unrealistic in terms of mission deployment, maintenance, and post-mission recovery. To address this problem, the paper proposes a sparse swarm concept, which is illustrated via four application scenarios.
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