Leveraging swarm capabilities to assist other systems
<|reference_start|>Leveraging swarm capabilities to assist other systems: Most studies in swarm robotics treat the swarm as an isolated system of interest. We argue that the prevailing view of swarms as self-sufficient, independent systems limits the scope of potential applications for swarm robotics. A robot swarm could act as a support in an heterogeneous system comprising other robots and/or human operators, in particular by quickly providing access to a large amount of data acquired in large unknown environments. Tasks such as target identification & tracking, scouting, or monitoring/surveillance could benefit from this approach.<|reference_end|>
@article{kegeleirs2024leveraging,
    title={Leveraging swarm capabilities to assist other systems},
    author={Miquel Kegeleirs, David Garz'on Ramos, Guillermo Legarda Herranz,
  Ilyes Gharbi, Jeanne Szpirer, Ken Hasselmann, Lorenzo Garattoni, Gianpiero
  Francesca and Mauro Birattari},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04079},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.04079},
    primaryClass={cs.RO}
}