Publications

Locomotion as a Result of Displacement of Resources.

ALIFE 2018

(2018)

, 232-233

Mohammad Divband Soorati, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann:

Robust and Adaptive Robot Self-Assembly Based on Vascular Morphogenesis.

IROS

(2018)

, 4282-4287

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Stefan Schönwetter-Fuchs-Schistek, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving robot controllers for a bio-hybrid system.

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Living and synthetic systems

(2018)

, 155-162

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Stefan Schönwetter-Fuchs-Schistek, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving robot controllers for a bio-hybrid system.

In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings

(2018)

, 155-162

Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Ewald Neufeld, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann:

Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants:a bio-hybrid approach.

Royal Society Open Science,

5(10)

(2018)

2017

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Generative Model For Developing Morphology of Artificial Structures.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany

(2017)

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Design choices for adapting bio-hybrid systems with evolutionary computation.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany

(2017)

Marsela Polic, Ziad Salem, Karlo Griparic, Stjepan Bogdan, Thomas Schmickl:

Estimation of moving agents density in 2D space based on LSTM neural network.

IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS 2017). Ljubljana, Slovenia

(2017)

, 8

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Animal-guided evolutionary computation in honeybees and robots.

14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2017). Lyon, France

(2017)

, 8

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Development of Morphology Based on Resource Distribution: Finding the Shortest Path in a Maze by Vascular Morphogenesis Controller.

14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2017). Lyon, France

(2017)

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-defined Steering of Growth and Motion.

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

12(3)

(2017)

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: Guiding Morphology by Competition for Resource Distribution.

ECAL, Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop

(2017)

Martina Szopek, Martin Stefanec, Michael Bodi, Gerald Radspieler, Thomas Schmickl:

A cellular model of swarm intelligence in bees and robots.

International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies

(2017)

Martin Stefanec, Martina Szopek, Ronald Thenius, Gerald Radspieler, Thomas Schmickl:

Robotic oligarchy: How a few members can control their whole society by doing almost nothing.

International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies

(2017)

Evolving Vascular Morphogenesis Controller to Demonstrate Locomotion.

Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing (AISP), Shiraz (in press)

(2017)

Heiko Hamman, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Igor Kuksin, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby, Stig Anton Nielsen, Sebastian Risi, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Payam Zahadat, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek, Kasper Stoy, Thomas Schmickl, Serge Kernbach, Phil Ayres:

Flora robotica - An Architectural System Combining Living Natural and Distributed Robots.

arXiv.org

(2017)

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

Towards Swarm Level Optimisation: The Role of Different Movement Patterns in Swarm Systems.

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

(2017)

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Franz Wotawa:

Quantification and Analysis of the Resilience of Two Swarm Intelligent Algorithms.

in 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPiC Series in Computing.

Volume 50

(2017)

, 148-161

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Franz Wotawa:

swarmFSTaxis: Borrowing a Swarm Communication Mechanism from Fireflies and Slime Mold.

in Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences

(2017)

Thomas Schmickl:

Fundamentalism in a Social Learning Perspective.

IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

(2017)

Yannick Oswald, Thomas Schmickl:

Ultimate Ecology.

IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

(2017)

Martin Stefanec, Martina Szopek, Rob Mills, Thomas Schmickl:

Governing the swarm.

IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

(2017)

2016

Division of Labor in a Swarm of Autonomous Underwater Robots by Improved Partitioning Social Inhibition.

Adaptive Behavior

24(2)

(2016)

, 87-101

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Distributed Controller for Growing Artificial Structures.

SASO 2016

(2016)

Mostafa Wahby, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann:

An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap.

SASO 2016 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

(2016)

, 10

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Kasper Støy, Heiko Hamann:

Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility based on Braided Structures.

SOCO 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction

(2016)

, 6

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

FSTaxis Algorithm: Bio-Inspired Emergent Gradient Taxis.

in Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016

(2016)

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

FSTT Algorithm: Can Tides Assist Bio-Inspired Gradient Taxis?.

in MESROB 2016

(2016)

Daniel Moser, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl:

First Investigations into Artificial Emotions in Cognitive Robotics.

in MESROB 2016

(2016)

Ronald Thenius, Daniel Moser, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Thomas Schmickl, Others:

subCULTron - Cultural Development as a Tool in Underwater Robotics.

in Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents Symposium

(2016)

Thomas Schmickl, Martin Stefanec, Karl Crailsheim:

How a life-like system emerges from a simplistic particle motion law.

Scientific Reports

(2016)

, 37969

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Kunzfeld, Thomas Schmickl:

Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots: How Robust the BEECLUST Algorithm Performs in Various Conditions.

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games

(2016)

Istvan Karsai, Emil Montano, Thomas Schmickl:

Bottom-up ecology: an agent-based model on the interactions between competition and predation.

Letters in Biomathematics

(2016)

Rob Mills, Martina Szopek, Michael Bodi, Thomas Schmickl, Luís Correia:

On the timescale of interactions in bio-hybrid systems.

In Late Breaking Abstracts booklet Artificial Life Conference 2016.

(2016)

2015

Evolving Controllers for Programmable Robots to Influence Non-Programmable Lifeforms: A Casy Study.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

9028

(2015)

Michael Bodi, Christoph Möslinger, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl:

BEECLUST Used for Exploration Tasks in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.

in Mathematical Modelling,

# 8 | part# 1

(2015)

, 819-824

Christiane Rössler, Magdalena Witzmann, Thomas Schmickl:

Modelling " Breaking Bad " : An economic model of drugs and population dynamics to predict how the series itself feeds back into the drug market.

In Proceedings of the 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling

(2015)

Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Fernando Silva, Damjan Mlikic, Pedro Mariano, Thomas Schmickl, Luís Correia:

Coordination of collective behaviours in spatially separated agents.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2015

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Diverse Collective Behaviors Independent of Swarm Density.

Workshop Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Collective Behaviors With Diverse But Predictable Sensor States.

13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, UK, 2015

(2015)

Daniela Kengyel, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Gerald Radspieler, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

Potential of Heterogeneity in Collective Behaviors: A Case Study on Heterogeneous Swarms.

Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2015

(2015)

Heiko Hamann, Mostafa Wahby, Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi, Andres Faina, Frank Veenstra, Serge Kernbach, Igor Kuksin, Olga Kernbach, Phil Ayres, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek:

flora robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids.

Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life IEEE ALIFE 2015

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Sibylle Hahshold, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

From Honeybees to Robots and Back: Division of Labour based on Partitioning Social Inhibition.

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

10(6)

(2015)

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Kunzfeld, Thomas Schmickl:

Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots: How Robust the BEECLUST Algorithm Performs in Various Conditions.

9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT)

(2015)

Thomas Schmickl, Martin Stefanec:

Population Dynamics of Self-Replicating Cell-like Structures Emerging from Chaos.

https://arxiv.org

(2015)

, 1512.04478

Michael Bodi, Martina Szopek, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Mixed Societies: A one-dimensional modelling approach.

BICT ’15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Information and Communicati

(2015)

2014

Generation of Diversity in a Reaction-Diffusion Based Controller.

Artificial Life

20:3

(2014)

, 319–342

Wolfpack-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm and a Reaction-Diffusion-based Controller are used for Pattern Formation.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, Canada

(2014)

, 241-248

Payam Zahadat, Michael Bodi, Ziad Salem, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira, Francesco Mondada, Karlo Griparic, Tomislav Haus, Stjepan Bogdan, Rob Mills, Pedro Mariano, Luís Correia, Olga Kernbach, Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl:

Social adaptation of robots for modulating self-organization in animal societies.

2nd FoCAS Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Systems

(2014)

Ziad Salem, Thomas Schmickl:

The efficiency of the RULES-4 classification learning algorithm in predicting the density of agents.

Cogent Engineering

1: 986262

(2014)

Martina Szopek, Sibylle Hahshold, Ronald Thenius, Michael Bodi, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

ASSISIbf: Honeybees and robots form a bio-hybrid society.

Entomologica Austriaca

(2014)

, 242-243

2013

Analysis of Swarm Behaviors Based on an Inversion of the Fluctuation Theorem.

Artificial Life

(2013)

Jürgen Stradner, Ronald Thenius, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Algorithmic Requirements for Swarm Intelligence in Differently Coupled Collective Systems.

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

(2013)

Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Christopher S. F. Schwarzer, Nico K. Michiels, Thomas Schmickl:

Virtual spatiality in agent controllers: Encoding compartmentalization.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

7835

(2013)

, 579–588

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Evolution of Spatial Pattern Formation by Autonomous Bio-Inspired Cellular Controllers.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 830-837

Payam Zahadat, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Social Inhibition Manages Division of Labour in Artificial Swarm Systems.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 609-616

Daniela Kengyel, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Influence of a Social Gradient on a Swarm of Agents Controlled by the BEECLUST Algorithm.

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life

(2013)

, 1041-1048

Tobias Meister, Ronald Thenius, Daniela Kengyel, Thomas Schmickl:

Cooperation of two different swarms controlled by BEECLUST algorithm.

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life

(2013)

, 1124-1125

Mark Read, Christoph Möslinger, Tobias Dipper, Daniela Kengyel, James Hilder, Ronald Thenius, Andy Tyrrell, Jon Timmis, Thomas Schmickl:

Profiling Underwater Swarm Robotic Shoaling Performance using Simulation.

In Proceedings of TAROS 2013

(2013)

, 456-462

Thomas Schmickl, Stjepan Bogdan, Luís Correia, Serge Kernbach, Francesco Mondada, Michael Bodi, Alexey Gribovskiy, Sibylle Hahshold, Damjan Miklic, Martina Szopek, Ronald Thenius, José Halloy:

ASSISI: mixing animals with robots in a hybrid society.

Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Lecture Notes in Computer Science

8064

(2013)

, 441-443

Martina Szopek, Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Gerald Radspieler, Karl Crailsheim:

Dynamics of Collective Decision Making of Honeybees in Complex Temperature Fields.

PLoS ONE

8(10)

(2013)

, e76250

José Halloy, Francesco Mondada, Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl:

Towards Bio-hybrid Systems Made of Social Animals and Robots.

N.F. Lepora et al. (eds.): Living Machines 2013, Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence

8064

(2013)

, 384-386

Thomas Schmickl, Martina Szopek, Michael Bodi, Sibylle Hahshold, Gerald Radspieler, Ronald Thenius, Stjepan Bogdan, Damjan Miklic, Karlo Griparic, Tomislav Haus, Serge Kernbach, Olga Kernbach:

ASSISI: Charged Hot Bees Shakin' in the Spotlight.

Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2013

(2013)

, 259-260

Ronald Thenius, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

EMANN - a model of emotions in an artificial neural network.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 830-837

Donny Sutantyo, Paul Levi, Christoph Möslinger, Mark Read:

Collective-Adaptive Levy Flight for Underwater Multi-Robot Exploration.

Proceedings of IEEE Conference of Mechatronics and Automation

(2013)

2012

Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim:

Analysis of Emergent Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decision Making.

Neural Computing & Applications

21(2)

(2012)

, 207-218

Self-Organized Pattern Formation in a Swarm System as a Transient Phenomenon of Nonlinear Dynamics.

Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems

18(1)

(2012)

, 39-50

A Hormone-Based Controller for Evaluation-Minimal Evolution in Decentrally Controlled Systems.

Artificial Life

18(2)

(2012)

, 165-198

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim:

Swarm-intelligent foraging in honeybees: benefits and costs of task-partitioning and environmental fluctuations.

Neural Computing & Application

(2012)

, 251-268

Leo Cazenille, Nicolas Bredeche, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner:

Impact of Neuron Models and Network Structure on Evolving Robot Neural Network Controllers.

14th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2012

(2012)

Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl:

Towards Morphological Flexibility: Modular Robotics and Bio-inspired Control.

Austrian Robotics Workshop

(2012)

Towards Swarm Calculus: Universal Properties of Swarm Performance and Collective Decisions.

ANTS 2012

LNCS 7461

(2012)

, 168-179

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Evolving Reactive Controller for a Modular Robot: Benefits of the Property of State-Switching in Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks.

in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

7426

(2012)

, 209-218

Payam Zahadat, Kasper Stoy:

An Alternative Representation of Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks Facilitating Analysis and Interpretation.

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

(2012)

, 285-316

Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

On-line, On-board Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Control for Self-Adaptation.

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

(2012)

, 597–598

2011

Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim:

Evolving a Novel Bio-Inspired Controller in Reconfigurable Robots.

Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09)

LNCS 5777

(2011)

, 132-139

Michael Bodi, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

How two cooperating robot swarms are affected by two conflictive aggregation spots.

in Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09)

(2011)

, 367 - 374

Christoph Möslinger, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

A Minimalist Flocking Algorithm for Swarm Robots.

Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09), LNCS 5778

(2011)

, 375–382

Daniela Kengyel, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim:

Embodiment of Honeybee's Thermotaxis in a Mobile Robot Swarm.

10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09), Budapest, Hungary

LNCS 5778

(2011)

, 69-76

Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim:

Modelling a Hormone-Inspired Controller for Individual- and Multi-Modular Robotic Systems.

Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems

17(3)

(2011)

, 221-242

Thermodynamics of Emergence: Langton's Ant Meets Boltzmann.

IEEE ALIFE - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

(2011)

, 62-69

Coupled Inverted Pendulums: A Benchmark for Evolving Decentral Controllers in Modular Robotics.

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011

(2011)

, 195-202

Evolving for Creativity: Maximizing Complexity in a Self-Organized Multi-Particle System.

10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'09)

LNCS 5777

(2011)

, 442-449

Explaining Emergence in a Swarm System Based on an Inversion of the Fluctuation Theorem.

ECAL 2011

(2011)

Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann:

BEECLUST: A Swarm Algorithm Derived from Honeybees. Derivation of the Algorithm, Analysis by Mathematical Models and Implementation on a Robot Swarm.

Bio-inspired Computing and Networking, Yang Xiao (editor)

(2011)

, 95-137

Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Ronald Thenius:

CoCoRo – A self-aware swarm of underwater vehicles.

1st Awareness Workshop at SASO 2011

(2011)

, -

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Jon Timmis, et al.:

CoCoRo: A swarm of self-aware underwater robots.

ICAR 2011 - 15th international Conference on Advanced Robotics

(2011)

, -

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Christoph Möslinger, et al.:

CoCoRo - The Self-aware Underwater Swarm.

SASO 2011 - Fifth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

(2011)

, -

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Jon Timmis, et al.:

CoCoRo: The self-aware swarm of underwater robots.

IROS 2011 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

(2011)

, -

Michael Bodi, Ronald Thenius, Martina Szopek, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Interaction of robot swarms using the honeybee-inspired control algorithm BEECLUST.

Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems

(2011)

, 87 - 101

Markus Dauschan, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Using virtual embryogenesis in multi-robot organisms.

Proc. of the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt

(2011)

, 238-247

Ronald Thenius, Markus Dauschan, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Regenerative Abilities in Modular Robots Using Virtual Embryogenesis.

Proc. of the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt

(2011)

, 227-237

Payam Zahadat:

Evolution and Development in Gene Regulatory Network Systems.

Shiraz University, Iran

PhD Thesis,

(2011)

Fordyce A. Davidson, Graeme P. Boswell, Mark W. F. Fischer, Luke Heaton, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Marcus Roper:

Mathematical modelling of fungal growth and function.

IMA Fungus

(2011)

, 33-37

2010

Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

A Hormone-Based Controller for Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics: From Single Modules to Gait Learning.

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'10)

(2010)

Heiko Hamann, Bernd Meyer, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

A Model of Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decisions.

Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10)

(2010)

Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks: Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics.

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife XII)

(2010)

, 773-780

Ralf Mayet, Jonathan Roberz, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Antbots: A feasible visual emulation of pheromone trails for swarm robots.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

6234

(2010)

, 84-94

Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Ralf Mayet, Karl Crailsheim:

Complex Taxis-Behaviour in a Novel Bio-Inspired Robot Controller.

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife XII)

(2010)

, 648-655

Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Christopher S. F. Schwarzer, Florian Schlachter, Alan F.T. Winfield, Rene Matthias:

Adaptive Action Selection Mechanisms for Evolutionary Multimodular Robotics.

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife XII)

(2010)

, 781-788

Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Karl Crailsheim:

Hormone-based Control for Multi-modular Robotics.

Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms: Reliability, Adaptability, Evolution, P. Levi and S. Kernbach (eds)

(2010)

Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming.

Cognitive Systems Monographs

(2010)

Sibylle Hahshold, Gerald Radspieler, Martina Szopek, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Robuste Gruppenentscheidungen bei Honigbienen.

Entomologica Austriaca

(2010)

, 125-126

Christoph Möslinger, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Emergent Flocking with Low-End Swarm Robots.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

6234

(2010)

, 424-431

Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Serajeddin Katebi, Kasper Stoy:

Sensor-coupled fractal gene regulatory networks for locomotion control of a modular snake robot.

in 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

(2010)

Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Serajeddin Katebi, Kasper Stoy:

Fractal gene regulatory networks for robust locomotion control of modular robots.

in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag

6226

(2010)

, 544-554

Ronald Thenius, Michael Bodi, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Using Virtual Embryogenesis for Structuring Controllers.

LNCS

6209

(2010)

2009

Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim:

Two Different Approaches to a Macroscopic Model of a Bio-Inspired Robotic Swarm.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

57(9)

(2009)

, 913-921

Michael Bodi, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Robustness of two interacting robot swarms using the BEECLUST algorithm.

in Proc. of MATHMOD 2009 - 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling

(2009)

Pattern Formation as a Transient Phenomenon in the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Multi-Agent System.

in Proc. of MATHMOD 2009 - 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling

(2009)

Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Analysis and Implementation of an Artificial Homeostatic Hormone System: A First Case Study in Robotic Hardware.

in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09)

(2009)

Serge Kernbach, Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim, A.C. van Rossum, Michele Sebag, Nicolas Bredeche, Yao Yao, Guy Baele, et al.:

On Adaptive Self-Organization in Artificial Robot Organisms.

The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE)

(2009)

Thomas Schmickl, Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim:

Major Feedbacks that Support Artificial Evolution in Multi-Modular Robotics.

in International Workshop Exploring New Horizons in Evolutionary Design of Robots at IROS'09

(2009)

Martina Szopek, Gerald Radspieler, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Verhalten junger Honigbienen in zweidimensionalen Temperaturgradienten.

Entomologica Austriaca

(2009)

, 151-152

Gerald Radspieler, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl:

Individual-based modelling of temperature-induced aggregation behaviour.

Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna - Full Papers CD Volume, ARGESIM Report

(2009)

, 895 - 903

Serge Kornienko, Ronald Thenius, Olga Kornienko, Thomas Schmickl:

Re-Embodiment of Honeybee Aggregation Behavior in an Artificial Micro-Robotic System.

Adaptive Behavior: animals, animats, software agents, robots, adaptive systems

(2009)

, 19

Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Novel Concept of Modelling Embryology for Structuring an Artificial Neural Network.

Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna

(2009)

, 8

2008

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Christoph Möslinger, Gerald Radspieler, Serge Kernbach, Marc Szymanski, Karl Crailsheim:

Get In Touch - cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions.

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

(2008)

, 133-155

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn:

A Framework of Space-Time Continuous Models for Algorithm Design in Swarm Robotics.

Swarm Intelligence

2(2-4)

(2008)

, 209-239

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Spatial Macroscopic Models of a Bio-Inspired Robotic Swarm Algorithm.

in IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS'08)

(2008)

, 1415-1420

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn:

Aggregating Robots Compute: An Adaptive Heuristic for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem.

in Proc. of the tenth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'08)

, LNAI 5040

(2008)

, 447-456

Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming.

University of Karlsruhe, Germany,

PhD Thesis

(2008)

Jürgen Stradner, Heiner Römer:

Reliable coding of small, behaviourally relevant interaural intensity differences in a pair of interneurons of an insect.

Biology Letters

(2008)

, 711-714

Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Tartarus and fractal gene regulatory networks with input.

Advances in Complex Systems Journal (ACS)

(2008)

, 803-829

2007

Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim:

Individual adaptation allows collective path-finding in a robotic swarm.

International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing

(2007)

, 102-108

Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim:

Bio-inspired Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Heterogenous Environments.

International Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing

(2007)

, 164-170

Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Karl Crailsheim:

Collective Perception in a Robot Swarm.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4433

(2007)

, 144-157

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn:

Embodied Computation.

Parallel Processing Letters

17(3)

(2007)

, 287-298

Heinz Wörn, Ramon Estana, Heiko Hamann, Marc Szymanski:

From Micro to Nano and Swarm Robotics.

in Advances in Climbing and Walking Robots. Proceedings of 10th International Conference (CLAWAR'07)

(2007)

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn:

A Space- and Time-Continuous Model of Self-Organizing Robot Swarms for Design Support.

in Proc of 1st IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'07)

(2007)

, 23-31

Heiko Hamann, Marc Szymanski, Heinz Wörn:

Orientation in a Trail Network by Exploiting its Geometry for Swarm Robotics.

in Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium

(2007)

, 310-315

Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn:

An Analytical and Spatial Model of Foraging in a Swarm of Robots.

in Proc. of Swarm Robotics - Second SAB 2006 International Workshop

(2007)

, 43-55

Ismene Fertschai, Jürgen Stradner, Heiner Römer:

Neuroethology of female preference in the synchronously singing bushchricket Mecopoda elongata (Tettigoniidae; Orthoptera): why do followers call at all?.

Journal of Experimental Biology

210

(2007)

, 465-476

Vivek Nityananda, Jürgen Stradner, Rohini Balakrishnan:

Selective attention in a synchronising bushcricket: physiology, behaviour and ecology.

Jounrnal of Comparative Physiology A

193

(2007)

, 893-991

Malihe Sabeti, Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Accuracy based classifier systems using evolutionary neural networks representation.

in 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC)

(2007)

2005

Malihe Sabeti, Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Learning classifier systems for mobile robot control.

in 10th Annual Conference of Computer Society of Iran

(2005)

Payam Zahadat:

Design and Implementation of Multi Agent Systems based on Reinforcement Learning.

Shiraz University, Iran

MSc Thesis

(2005)

2004

Payam Zahadat, Malihe Sabeti, Serajeddin Katebi:

Incremental reinforcement learning in multiagent systems.

In Proc. 6th Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS)

(2004)

2003