Artificial Life Laboratory, Graz, Austria

2020

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Hannes Hornischer, Payam Zahadat, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl: A swarm design paradigm unifying swarm behaviors using minimalistic communication. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2020), 16(2)
Hannes Hornischer, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa, Manfred Füllsack, Thomas Schmickl: CIMAX: collective information maximization in robotic swarms using local communication. Adaptive Behavior (2020)

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)
Joshua Cherian Varughese, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Franz Wotawa: Quantification 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)

2016

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)

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
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)

2014

Martina Szopek, Sibylle Hahshold, Ronald Thenius, Michael Bodi, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl: ASSISIbf: Honeybees and robots form a bio-hybrid society. Entomologica Austriaca 21 (2014), 242-243

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)
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
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
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
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

2012

Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim: Swarm-intelligent foraging in honeybees: benefits and costs of task-partitioning and environmental fluctuations. Neural Computing & Application 21 (2012), 251-268

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
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, Christoph Möslinger, Ronald Thenius: CoCoRo – A self-aware swarm of underwater vehicles. 1st Awareness Workshop at SASO 2011 - (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: A swarm of self-aware underwater robots. ICAR 2011 - 15th international Conference on Advanced Robotics - (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 18 (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

2010

Sibylle Hahshold, Gerald Radspieler, Martina Szopek, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim: Robuste Gruppenentscheidungen bei Honigbienen. Entomologica Austriaca 17 (2010), 125-126
Ronald Thenius, Michael Bodi, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim: Using Virtual Embryogenesis for Structuring Controllers. LNCS 6209 (2010)

2009

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)
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)
Gerald Radspieler, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl: Individual-based modelling of temperature-induced aggregation behaviour. Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna - Full Papers CD Volume, ARGESIM Report 35 (2009), 895 - 903
Martina Szopek, Gerald Radspieler, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim: Verhalten junger Honigbienen in zweidimensionalen Temperaturgradienten. Entomologica Austriaca 16 (2009), 151-152
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 17 (2009), 19
Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim: Novel Concept of Modelling Embryology for Structuring an Artificial Neural Network. Proceedings MATHMOD 09 Vienna 35 (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 18 (2008), 133-155

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 4 (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 3 (2007), 164-170