Vasco Costa

TL;DR: This paper demonstrates for the first time a swarm robotics system with evolved control successfully operating in a real and uncontrolled environment and validates that the evolved controllers display key properties of swarm intelligence-based control, namely scalability, flexibility, and robustness on the real swarm.

TL;DR: The results show that swarm robotics systems are suited for environmental monitoring tasks by efficiently covering a target area, allowing for redundancy in the data collection process, and tolerating individual robot faults.

TL;DR: The CORATAM and HANCAD projects are presented, which focus on the fundamental challenges related to communication and control in swarms of aquatic drones, and it is argued for the adoption of a heterogeneous approach to communication.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe the global burden of COVID-19 admissions and the clinical and organizational characteristics associated with outcomes in critically ill patients, including older age, invasive mechanical ventilation, and acute kidney injury (AKI).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss wireless sensor and networking technologies for swarms of inexpensive aquatic surface drones in the context of the HANCAD project, where the goal is to enable the swarm to perform maritime tasks such as sea-border patrolling and environmental monitoring, while keeping the cost of each drone low.