News (since Dec. 2023)

Our paper “Predictive Object Sorting in Robot Swarms Using Purity-Weighted Compactness” by Andrew Vardy and Marius Seidl was nominated for the Best Paper Award at EUMAS 2026, the European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, held in Malmö, Sweden.

Andrew presented our paper “Scalable Foraging: A Paired Body and Controller Design for Foraging Robots” by Andrew Vardy and Marius Seidl at ANTS 2026, the 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, held in Darmstadt, Germany.

Marius presented our paper “A Hydrodynamics-Enabled Collision Model for Floating Objects” at POAC 2025.

Andrew presented the paper “A Minimalist Swarm Robotic Controller for Foraging” as a poster at Canadian AI 2025.

Arash presented our paper “Towards Human-Quality Drum Accompaniment Using Deep Generative Models and Transformers” at EvoMUSART 2025.

Andrew presented Dalia’s paper “Swarm in the City: Inspirations from Urban Street Networks for Swarm Robot Aggregation” as a poster at ANTS 2024.

Andrew was a co-author on a paper accepted at ICRA 2024 called “Do We Run Large-scale Multi-Robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-Phase Performance in System Size Scaling”. You can find the paper on arXiv. This paper won the Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems!

Our paper “Improving detection and localization of green sea urchin by adding attention mechanisms in a convolutional network” appeared in the Journal of Ocean Technology.