Editing Swarm robotics (section)

== Key Attributes of Robotic Swarms ==
The design of swarm robotics systems is guided by swarm intelligence principles, which promote fault tolerance, scalability, and flexibility.<ref name=":0" /> Unlike distributed robotic systems in general, swarm robotics emphasizes a large number of robots. While various formulations of swarm intelligence principles exist, one widely recognized set includes:<blockquote>
# Robots are autonomous.
# Robots can interact with the surroundings and give feedback to modify the environment.
# Robots possess local perceiving and communicating capabilities, such as [[wireless]] transmission systems, like [[radio frequency]] or [[infrared]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Architectures and Control of Networked Robotic Systems |date=2013-05-29 |work=Handbook of Collective Robotics |pages=105–128 |editor-last=Kernbach |editor-first=Serge |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9789814364119/chapters/10.1201/b14908-6 |access-date=2024-12-04 |edition=0 |publisher=Jenny Stanford Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1201/b14908-6 |isbn=978-0-429-06759-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
# Robots do not exploit centralized swarm control or global knowledge.
# Robots cooperate with each other to accomplish the given task.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brambilla |first1=Manuele |last2=Ferrante |first2=Eliseo |last3=Birattari |first3=Mauro |last4=Dorigo |first4=Marco |date=17 January 2013 |title=Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11721-012-0075-2 |journal=Swarm Intelligence |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=1–41 |doi=10.1007/s11721-012-0075-2 |issn=1935-3812}}</ref>
</blockquote>Miniaturization is also key factor in swarm robotics, as the effect of thousands of small robots can maximize the effect of the swarm-intelligent approach to achieve meaningful behavior at swarm-level through a greater number of interactions on an individual level.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Dorigo |first1=Marco |last2=Theraulaz |first2=Guy |last3=Trianni |first3=Vito |date=18 June 2021 |title=Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View] |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9460560 |journal=Proceedings of the IEEE |volume=109 |issue=7 |pages=1152–1165 |doi=10.1109/JPROC.2021.3072740 |issn=0018-9219}}</ref>

Compared with individual robots, a swarm can commonly decompose its given missions to their subtasks;<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hu |first1=Junyan |last2=Bhowmick |first2=Parijat |last3=Lanzon |first3=Alexander |date=2020-11-10 |title=Two-layer distributed formation-containment control strategy for linear swarm systems: Algorithm and experiments |journal=International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control |language=en |volume=30 |issue=16 |pages=6433–6453 |doi=10.1002/rnc.5105 |issn=1049-8923|doi-access=free }}</ref> a swarm is more robust to partial failure and is more flexible with regard to different missions.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Autonomous mobile robots and multi-robot systems: motion-planning, communication and swarming |date=2020 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc |isbn=978-1-119-21286-7 |editor-last=Kagan |editor-first=Eugene |edition=1st |location=Hoboken, NJ}}</ref>