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Chapter and Conference Paper
Branched Structure Formation in a Decentralized Flock of Wheeled Robots
Swarm robotics studies how a large number of relatively simple robots can accomplish various functions collectively and dynamically. Modular robotics concentrates on the design of specialized connected parts t...
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Article
Open AccessGuidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors
In recent years, it has been suggested that social robots have potential as tutors and educators for both children and adults. While robots have been shown to be effective in teaching knowledge and skill-based...
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Chapter
The ChIRP Robot: A Versatile Swarm Robot Platform
Swarm Robotic experiments are ideally performed on real robots. However, a cost versus versatility trade-off exists between simpler and more advanced swarm robots. The simpler swarm robots provide limited feat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Embedded Evolutionary Robotics: The (1+1)-Restart-Online Adaptation Algorithm
This paper deals with online onboard behavior optimization for a autonomous mobile robot in the scope of the European FP7 Symbrion Project. The work presented here extends the (1+1)-online algorithm introduced...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Environment-Driven Embodied Evolution in a Population of Autonomous Agents
This paper is concerned with a fixed-size population of autonomous agents facing unknown, possibly changing, environments. The motivation is to design an embodied evolutionary algorithm that can cope with the ...
