Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics: Latest Advances and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to our Special Issue entitled “Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics: Latest Advances and Prospects”.

Distributed autonomous systems provide multiple economic advantages. A promising way to manage these distributed systems is through the utilization of swarm intelligence. However, designing fully distributed and autonomous systems remains a challenging open problem since the global system performance is difficult to predict. The problem becomes even more challenging since it is multi-objective in nature.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in swarm intelligence and swarm robotics which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: surveillance systems, distributed systems, modelling and simulation, cooperative control, swarm intelligence, swarms of drones, multi-agent systems, self-organization, robot formation control, distributed machine learning, collective mapping, and UAV traffic management (UTM).

Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome, as well as comprehensive reviews and survey papers. We look forward to receiving submissions of your high-quality research work.

Dr. Daniel H. Stolfi
Dr. Grégoire Danoy
Guest Editor

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