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International Journal of Robotics Research
The new S language: a programming environment for data analysis and graphics
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An evolved, vision-based behavioral model of coordinated group motion
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Cellular Robotics and Micro Robotics Systems
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Evolving collective behavior in an artificial ecology
Artificial Life
Task Modelling in Collective Robotics
Autonomous Robots
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Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
An Experimental Investigation of Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Programming
EP '98 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Programming VII
Cooperative multi-robot box-pushing
IROS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems-Volume 3 - Volume 3
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Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot
Autonomous Robots
Emergence of Collective Behavior in Evolving Populations of Flying Agents
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Multi-robot learning with particle swarm optimization
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
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Adaptive action selection without explicit communication formultirobot box-pushing
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Swarms of Self-assembling Robots
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Teamwork in self-organized robot colonies
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
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Autonomous Robots
Towards group transport by swarms of robots
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part I
The emergence of multi-cellular robot organisms through on-line on-board evolution
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On-line evolution of controllers for aggregating swarm robots in changing environments
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Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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Group transport is performed in many natural systems and has become a canonical task for studying cooperation in robotics. We simulate a system of simple, insect-like robots that can move autonomously and grasp objects as well as each other. We use artificial evolution to produce solitary transport and group transport behaviors. We show that robots, even though not aware of each other, can be effective in group transport. Group transport can even be performed by robots that behave as in solitary transport. Still, robots engaged in group transport can benefit from behaving differently from robots engaged in solitary transport. The best group transport behaviors yielded by half of the evolutions let robots organize into self-assembled structures. This provides evidence that self-assembly can provide adaptive value to individuals that compete in an artificial evolution based on task performance. We conclude the article by discussing potential implications for evolutionary biology and robotics.