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1 CoDE-IRIDIA-Robotique: List of Publications [1] G. Baldassarre, V. Trianni, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo, and S. Nolfi. Self-organized coordinated motion in groups of physically connected robots. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B, 37(1): , [2] M. Brambilla, E. Ferrante, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Swarm robotics: A review from the swarm engineering perspective. Swarm Intelligence, 7(1):1 41, [3] M. Brambilla, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. A reliable distributed algorithm for group size estimation with minimal communication requirements. In Fourteenth International Conference on Advanced Robotics ICAR 2009, pages 1 6, Proceedings on CD-ROM, paper ID 137. [4] M. Brambilla, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Property-driven design for swarm robotics. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), pages International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, [5] A. Brutschy, G. Pini, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Selforganized task allocation to sequentially interdependent tasks in swarm robotics. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, page in press, [6] A. Brutschy, A. Scheidler, E. Ferrante, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Can ants inspire robots? Self-organized decision making in robotic swarms. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 12), pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [7] A. Brutschy, N.-L. Tran, N. Baiboun, M. Frison, G. Pini, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Costs and benefits of behavioral specialization. In R. Groß, L. Alboul, C. Melhuish, M. Witkowski, T. J. Prescott, and J. Penders, editors, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, volume 6856 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [8] A. Brutschy, N.-L. Tran, N. Baiboun, M. Frison, G. Pini, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Costs and benefits of behavioral specialization. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(11): , [9] A. Campo and M. Dorigo. Efficient multi-foraging in swarm robotics. In Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of ECAL 2007, volume LNAI 4648 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany,

2 [10] A. Campo, S. Garnier, O. Dédriche, M. Zekkri, and M. Dorigo. Selforganized discrimination of resources. PLOS One, 6(5):e19888, [11] A. Campo, Á. Gutiérrez, S. Nouyan, C. Pinciroli, V. Longchamp, S. Garnier, and M. Dorigo. Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots. Biological Cybernetics, 103(5): , [12] A. Campo, S. Nouyan, M. Birattari, R. Groß, and M. Dorigo. Enhancing cooperative transport using negotiation of goal direction. In P.-Y. Schobbens, W. Vanhoof, and G. Schwanen, editors, 18th Belgium Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages , Namur, Belgium, University of Namur. [13] A. Campo, S. Nouyan, M. Birattari, R. Groß, and M. Dorigo. Negotiation of goal direction for cooperative transport. In M. Dorigo, L. M. Gambardella, M. Birattari, A. Martinoli, R. Poli, and T. Stützle, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: 5th International Workshop, ANTS 2006, volume 4150 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [14] A. L. Christensen and M. Dorigo. Evolving an integrated phototaxis and hole-avoidance behavior for a swarm-bot. In L. M. Rocha, L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani, editors, Artificial Life X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pages MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, [15] A. L. Christensen and M. Dorigo. Incremental evolution of robot controllers for a highly integrated task. In S. Nolfi, G. Baldassarre, R. Calabretta, J. C. T. Hallam, D. Marocco, J.-A. Meyer, O. Miglino, and D. Parisi, editors, From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, volume 4095 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [16] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Automatic synthesis of fault detection modules for mobile robots. In Proceedings of the 2007 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007), pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [17] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Exogenous fault detection in a collective robotic task. In Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of ECAL 2007, volume LNAI 4648 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [18] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Fault detection in autonomous robots based on fault injection and learning. Autonomous Robots, 24(1):49 67,

3 [19] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. A mechanism to selfassemble patterns with autonomous robots. In Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of ECAL 2007, volume LNAI 4648 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [20] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Morphogenesis: Shaping swarms of intelligent robots. In AAAI-07 Video Proceedings. AAAI Press, Winner of the AAAI-2007 Best AI Video award. [21] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Morphology control in a self-assembling multi-robot system. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 14(4):18 25, [22] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. SWARMORPH-script: a language for arbitrary morphology generation in self-assembling robots. Swarm Intelligence, 2(2 4): , [23] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Synchronization and fault detection in autonomous robots. In R. Chatila, J. P. Merlet, and C. Laugier, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2008), pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [24] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. From fireflies to fault tolerant swarms of robots. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(4): , [25] A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Parallel task execution, morphology control and scalability in a swarm of self-assembling robots. In 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Robótica 2009, pages IPCB-Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal, [26] A. Decugnière, B. Poulain, A. Campo, C. Pinciroli, B. Tartini, M. Osée, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Enhancing the cooperative transport of multiple objects. In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, M. Clerc, T. Stützle, and A.F.T. Winfield, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Sixth International Conference, ANTS 2008, volume 5217 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [27] M. Dorigo. Swarm-bot: A novel type of self-assembling robot. In K. Murase, K. Sekiyama, N. Kubota, T. Naniwa, and J. Sitte, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005), pages 3 4. Springer, Berlin, Germany, [28] M. Dorigo. SWARM-BOT: An experiment in swarm robotics. In P. Arabshahi and A. Martinoli, editors, 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS-05), pages IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ,

4 [29] M. Dorigo. Swarms of self-assembing robots. In Proceedings of EEMMAS 2007, volume 5049 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 1 2. Springer, Berlin, Germany, [30] M. Dorigo. Swarm intelligence research at iridia, université libre de bruxelles. Mathware & Soft Computing, 19(2):19 22, [31] M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, R. O Grady, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, D. Floreano, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. A. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, J. Martinez Gonzales, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, N. Mathews, M. A. Montes de Oca, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, F. Rey, J. Roberts, F. Rochat, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard. Swarmanoid, the movie. In AAAI-11 Video Proceedings. AAAI Press, Winner of the AAAI-2011 Best AI Video award. [32] M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugnière, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Förster, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, J. Martinez Gonzales, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Rétornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stützle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard. Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, page in press, [33] M. Dorigo and E. Şahin, editors. Special Issue on Swarm Robotics. Autonomous Robots, 17: Springer, [34] M. Dorigo and E. Şahin. Guest editorial. Special issue: Swarm robotics. Autonomous Robots, 17(2 3): , [35] M. Dorigo, V. Trianni, E. Şahin, R. Groß, T. H. Labella, G. Baldassarre, S. Nolfi, J.-L. Deneubourg, F. Mondada, D. Floreano, and L. M. Gambardella. Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarm-bot. Autonomous Robots, 17(2 3): , [36] M. Dorigo, E. Tuci, R. Groß, V. Trianni, T. H. Labella, S. Nouyan, C. Ampatzis, J.-L. Deneubourg, G. Baldassarre, S. Nolfi, F. Mondada, D. Floreano, and L. M. Gambardella. The SWARM-BOTS project. In E. Şahin and W. M. Spears, editors, Swarm Robotics: SAB 2004 International Workshop, volume 3342 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [37] M. Dorigo, E. Tuci, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, J.-L. Deneubourg, D. Floreano, and L. M. Gambardella. The SWARM-BOTS project. Kunstliche Intelligenz, 4/05:32 35,

5 [38] M. Dorigo, E. Tuci, V. Trianni, R. Groß, S. Nouyan, C. Ampatzis, T. H. Labella, R. O Grady, M. Bonani, and F. Mondada. SWARM-BOT: Design and implementation of colonies of self-assembling robots. In G. Y. Yen and D. B. Fogel, editors, Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice, chapter 6, pages IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, New York, [39] F. Ducatelle, G. Di Caro, A. Förster, M. Bonani, M. Dorigo, S. Magnenat, F. Mondada, R. O Grady, C. Pinciroli, P. Rétornaz, V. Trianni, and L. M. Gambardella. Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms. Swarm Intelligence, page in press, [40] E. Ferrante, M. Brambilla, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. look out! : Socially-mediated obstacle avoidance in collective transport. In Swarm Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, volume 6234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [41] E. Ferrante, M. Brambilla, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Socially-mediated negotiation for obstacle avoidance in collective transport. In Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 10, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, volume 83 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [42] E. Ferrante, W. Sun, A. E. Turgut, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Self-organized flocking with conflicting goal directions. In Presented at ECCS 2012, European Conference on Complex Systems, [43] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, M. Dorigo, and C. Huepe. Collective motion in active solids and active crystals. New Journal of Physics, page in press, [44] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, C. Huepe, M. Birattari, M. Dorigo, and T. Wenseleers. Explicit and implicit directional information transfer in collective motion. pages MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, [45] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, C. Huepe, A. Stranieri, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo. Self-organized flocking with a mobile robot swarm: a novel motion control method. Adaptive Behavior, 20(6): , [46] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, N. Mathews, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Flocking in stationary and non-stationary environments: A novel communication strategy for heading alignment. In R. Schaefer, C. Cotta, J. Ko lodziej, and G. Rudolph, editors, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN XI: 11th International Conference, number 6239 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany,

6 [47] E. Ferrante, A. E. Turgut, A. Stranieri, C. Pinciroli, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. A self-adaptive communication strategy for flocking in stationary and non-stationary environments. Natural Computing, page in press, [48] G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, V. Trianni, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Analysing an evolved robotic behaviour using a biological model of collegial decision making. In From Animals to Animats 12: 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, volume 6234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [49] M. Frison, N.-L. Tran, N. Baiboun, A. Brutschy, G. Pini, A. Roli, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Self-organized task partitioning in a swarm of robots. In Swarm Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, volume 6234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [50] E. Gjondrekaj, M. Loreti, R. Pugliese, F. Tiezzi, C. Pinciroli, M. Brambilla, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Towards a formal verification methodology for collective robotic systems. In Formal Methods and Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2012, volume 7635 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [51] R. Groß, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Autonomous selfassembly in a swarm-bot. In K. Murase, K. Sekiyama, N. Kubota, T. Naniwa, and J. Sitte, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005), pages Springer, Berlin, Germany, [52] R. Groß, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Autonomous selfassembly in swarm-bots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6): , [53] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Cooperative transport of objects of different shapes and sizes. In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, and T. Stützle, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: 4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004, volume 3172 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer- Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [54] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Evolving a cooperative transport behavior for two simple robots. In P. Liardet, P. Collet, C. Fonlupt, E. Lutton, and M. Schoenauer, editors, Artificial Evolution: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle 2003, volume 2936 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany,

7 [55] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Group transport of an object to a target that only some group members may sense. In X. Yao, E. Burke, J.A. Lozano, J. Smith, J.J. Merelo Guervós, J.A. Bullinaria, J. Rowe, P. Tino, A. Kaban, and H.-P. Schwefel, editors, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VIII: 8th International Conference, volume 3242 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [56] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Fifty years of self-assembly experimentation. In W.-M. Shen, H. Lipson, K. Støy, and M. Yim, editors, CD Proceedings of IROS 2007 Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots/Systems and Applications, page 6, San Diego, CA, [57] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Evolution of solitary and group transport behaviors for autonomous robots capable of self-assembling. Adaptive Behavior, 16(5): , [58] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale. Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(9): , [59] R. Groß and M. Dorigo. Towards group transport by swarms of robots. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 1(1 2):1 13, [60] R. Groß, M. Dorigo, and M. Yamakita. Self-assembly of mobile robots. From swarm-bot to super-mechano colony. In T. Arai, R. Pfeifer, T. Balch, and H. Yokoi, editors, Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9 IAS 9, pages IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, [61] R. Groß, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Transport of an object by six pre-attached robots interacting via physical links. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2006, pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [62] R. Groß, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Fault tolerance in groups of tightly coupled robots. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, page submitted, [63] R. Groß, S. Nouyan, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Division of labour in self-organised groups. In From Animals to Animats 10: 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, volume 5040 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages Springer, Berlin, Germany, [64] R. Groß, R. O Grady, A. L. Christensen, and M. Dorigo. The swarmbot experience: Strength and mobility through physical cooperation. In S. Kernbach, editor, Handbook of Collective Robotics, page in press. Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore,

8 [65] R. Groß, E. Tuci, M. Dorigo, M. Bonani, and F. Mondada. Object transport by modular robots that self-assemble. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2006, pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [66] Á. Gutiérrez, A. Campo, M. Dorigo, D. Amor, L. Magdalena, and F. Monasterio-Huelin. An open localization and local communication embodied sensor. Sensors, 8(11): , [67] A. Gutiérrez, A. Campo, M. Dorigo, J. Donate, F. Monasterio-Huelin, and L. Magdalena. Open e-puck range & bearing miniaturized board for local communication in swarm robotics. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2009, pages IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, [68] A. Gutiérrez, A. Campo, F. Monasterio-Huelin, L. Magdalena, and M. Dorigo. Collective decision-making based on social odometry. Neural Computing & Applications, 19(6): , [69] A. Gutiérrez, A. Campo, F. C. Santos, F. Monasterio-Huelin, and M. Dorigo. Social odometry: Imitation based odometry in collective robotics. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 26(2): , [70] A. Gutiérrez, A. Campo, F. C. Santos, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo. Social odometry in populations of autonomous robots. In M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, M. Clerc, T. Stützle, and A.F.T. Winfield, editors, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Sixth International Conference, ANTS 2008, volume 5217 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [71] Y. Khaluf, M. Pace, F. Rammig, and M. Dorigo. Integrals of markov processes with application to swarm robotics modelling. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, page in revision, [72] T. H. Labella, M. Dorigo, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Efficiency and task allocation in prey retrieval. In A. Ijspeert, M. Murata, and N. Wakamiya, editors, Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology: First International Workshop, BioADIT 2004, volume 3141 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [73] T. H. Labella, M. Dorigo, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Self-organised task allocation in a group of robots. In Rachid Alami, Raja Chatila, and Hajime Asama, editors, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 6, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pages Springer, Tokyo, Japan,

9 [74] T. H. Labella, M. Dorigo, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Division of labour in a group of robots inspired by ants foraging behaviour. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 1(1):4 25, [75] M. Massink, M. Brambilla, D. Latella, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. Analysing robot swarm decision-making with Bio-PEPA. In Swarm Intelligence: 8th International Conference, ANTS 2012, volume 7461 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [76] M. Massink, M. Brambilla, D. Latella, M. Dorigo, and M. Birattari. On the use of Bio-PEPA for modelling and analysing collective behaviours in swarm robotics. Swarm Intelligence, 7(2 3): , [77] N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, E. Ferrante, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Establishing spatially targeted communication in a heterogeneous robot swarm. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), pages IFAA- MAS, Toronto, Canada, [78] N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Cooperation in a heterogeneous robot swarm through spatially targeted communication. In Swarm Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, volume 6234 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, [79] N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, and M. Dorigo. Spatially targeted communication and self-assembly. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 12), pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [80] N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, and M. Dorigo. Enhanced directional self-assembly based on active recruitment and guidance. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 11), pages IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, [81] N. Mathews, A. Stranieri, A. Scheidler, and M. Dorigo. Supervised morphogenesis Morphology control of ground-based self-assembling robots by aerial robots. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), pages International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, [82] N. Mathews, G. Valentini, A. L. Christensen, R. O Grady, A. Brutschy, and M. Dorigo. Spatially targeted communication in multirobot systems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, page submitted,

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