My lab's Pheeno robots (small red robots with black-and-white tags) made it to CBS News!

This issue features insights from chimney swifts, robots, and plant tendrils Spring Berman @MerozLab If you have an article you can send it to my attention at Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

My people are awesome! Spring Berman

Our new modelling tool is now out in ⁦PLOS One⁩ - make math models of #collectivebehaviour w/out writing equations or installing software. We are also looking for developers to help maintain. Please RT to help us find users+devs w/ ⁦Giovanni Reina⁩ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Our paper "Mean-field models in swarm robotics: A survey" is out now: doi.org/10.1088/1748-3… via IOPscience Authors: Karthik Elamvazhuthi & Spring Berman; in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, special issue on Swarming Systems, ed. David L. Hu

My PhD student Shiba Biswal is presenting "Fastest Mixing Markov Chain on a Compact Manifold" at #CDC2019 today (finalist for Best Student Paper Award!)

Our new paper on safe robot navigation in unknown GPS-denied environments with strictly convex obstacles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1bgsYc8EXg5N…

Do want to implement a gradient-based feedback control law that was developed for a holonomic robot model, but your robot is nonholonomic? See our new RA-L paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/92583…

New paper on swarm shepherding: Mean-field model and control approach for herding a swarm (via repulsive interactions) to a target state distribution using a “leader” agent: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/92417…

New paper on stabilizing discrete-time deterministic nonlinear control systems to target invariant measures (using time-invariant stochastic feedback laws): ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/91197…

Also, new paper on an MPC method for collision-free, deadlock-free navigation by multiple nonholonomic robots: authors.elsevier.com/a/1csyL3HdG3dd…

Fun moderating the discussion on Robot Swarms in the Real World with panelists Nora Ayanian, Spring Berman, Dan Goldman, and Rafael de la Guardia. Well done to Siddharth Mayya, Gennaro Notomista, Roderich Gross and Vijay Kumar for the great workshop! sites.google.com/view/realworld…

New paper, "Decentralized Control of Multi-Agent Systems using Local Density Feedback": Agents evolve according to a discrete-time Markov process, decentralized density-dependent transition kernel, no agent state transitions at equilibrium ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/95290…

Happy Tuesday! NSF (M3X) Award Notice. Excited to be Co-PI (w/ Spring Berman) on Psychology at ASU Kathy Johnson's "Embodiment of Human Values Profiles in the Control of Autonomous Vehicles" We'll be joining #psychology & #control to make vehicles w/ MORALLY graceful failure modes :-)

More than 50 workshops and tutorials and lots of new opportunities to present your work. Check out the program and register for #ICRA2022 at icra2022.org/program/worksh…

I'm proud to have been so heavily involved in the creation of ASU Global Security Initiative #ASUCHART GHOST Lab The Polytechnic School, working with engineers and artists to craft a space that's both scientific testbed and art installation. Awesome research is already in progress! Arizona State University Research Lance Gharavi

New review paper: "Multirobot Control Strategies for Collective Transport," Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems annualreviews.org/eprint/SKI3MRA…

New paper with Aniket Shirsat Shatadal Mishra Wenlong Zhang: "Probabilistic Consensus on Feature Distribution for Multi-Robot Systems With Markovian Exploration Dynamics" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/97699…

New paper with Karthik Elamvazhuthi: "Density Stabilization Strategies for Nonholonomic Agents on Compact Manifolds" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10288…

New paper with Hamed Farivarnejad and Amir Salimi Lafmejani: "Local navigation-like functions for safe robot navigation in bounded domains with unknown convex obstacles" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…