Welcome to the Novel Engineering for Swarm Technologies Lab!
We conduct research on swarm robotics, including coordination algorithms, software engineering, and human-swarm interaction.
Recent News
Award (Apr 28, 2023)
Samantha Braun and Alyssa Magaha received the WPI Provost MQP Award for their project “Creating a Multi-Robot, Multi-Human, Multi-Platform System”.
Honorable Mention (Apr 28, 2023)
Will Babincsak received a Honorable Mention for the WPI Provost MQP Award for his project “Coalition Formation and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Swarms with Ant Colony Optimization”.
2nd Place at GRIE (Apr 12, 2023)
Khai Yi Chin obtained the 2nd place in the “Robotics, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering” section of the 2023 WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) for his poster “Minimalistic Collective Perception with Imperfect Robots”.Recent Publications
Extracting Symbolic Models of Collective Behaviors with Graph Neural Networks and Macro-Micro Evolution
Stephen Powers, Carlo Pinciroli. ANTS 2022.
Hacking the Colony: On the Disruptive Effect of Misleading Pheromone and How to Defend Against It
Ashay Aswale, Aukkawut Ammartayakun, Antonio Lopez, Carlo Pinciroli. AAMAS 2022 (Best Paper Award).