GRC paper accepted!

Energy Replenishment Strategies for Robot Swarms. Genki Miyauchi, Mohamed S. Talamali, Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Jessica Jayakumar, Alexandre Abadie, Geovane Fedrecheski, Martina Balbi, Said Alvarado-Marin, Felix Matzdorf, Julian Rau, Danny Hughes, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross. German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, 13-15 March 2025.

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(second) ICRA paper accepted!

Lighthouse Localization of Miniature Wireless Robots. Said Alvarado-Marin, Cristobal Huidobro-Marin, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), conference version of the RAL article, Atlanta USA, 19–23 May, 2025.

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ICRA paper accepted!

CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics. Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Genki Miyauchi, Jessica Jayakumar, Mohamed S. Talamali, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross, Danny Hughes. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), Atlanta USA, 19–23 May, 2025.

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SwarmIT fully functional!

Alexandre Abadie gave a demo of SwarmIT, which is now fully functional. SwarmIT is the component of the OpenSwarm implementation which allows a user to load arbitrary firmware onto the DotBot, over the air. SwarmIT is built in such a way that the system recovers in case the code loaded…

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Invited Talk by Edward Wang (MIT)

Inria Paris “Philippe Flajolet” room (AJ13) Monday 21-Oct-2024 11-12 also online: https://inria.webex.com/meet/thomas.watteyne Title Software engineering and formal methods for improved chip design productivity Abstract Diverse applications from medical devices to machine learning demandspecialized chips for improved performance, energy efficiency and reliability. Despite over two decades of chip design activity, the…

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