Sources

ISO 8373:2021 — Robotics — Vocabulary

International terminology baseline used across robotics documents and standards.

https://www.iso.org/standard/75539.html

Şahin — Swarm Robotics: From Sources of Inspiration to Domains of Application

Foundational definition and boundary framing for swarm robotics as a research domain.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_2

Brambilla et al. — Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

Widely cited review consolidating swarm robotics system properties and engineering perspectives.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11721-012-0075-2

Dorigo; Birattari — Swarm Intelligence

Peer-reviewed reference explaining theoretical foundations of swarm intelligence.

https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/Published_papers/All_Dorigo_papers/DorBir2007sch-si.pdf

Rubenstein, Cornejo, Nagpal — Programmable Self-Assembly in a Thousand-Robot Swarm

Peer-reviewed research article describing the Kilobot swarm robotics system and large-scale collective robot behavior.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1254295

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