1. A dung beetle-inspired robotic model and its distributed sensor-driven control for walking and ball rolling

   • M. Thor
   • T. Strøm-Hansen
   • P. Manoonpong

   Original Article 16 August 2018 Pages: 435 - 443

   

2. Behavioral pattern of pill bugs revealed in virtually infinite multiple T-maze

   • Jin Murano
   • Meiji Mitsuishi
   • Toru Moriyama

   Original Article 16 August 2018 Pages: 444 - 448

   

3. SnakeSIM: a ROS-based control and simulation framework for perception-driven obstacle-aided locomotion of snake robots

   • Filippo Sanfilippo
   • Øyvind Stavdahl
   • Pål Liljebäck

   Original Article 22 August 2018 Pages: 449 - 458

   

4. Phototactic supersmarticles

   • William Savoie
   • Sarah Cannon
   • Daniel I. Goldman

   Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 459 - 468

   

5. Barricade construction by primitive termites: task allocation and evolutionary perspectives

   • Nobuaki Mizumoto

   Original Article 21 September 2018 Pages: 469 - 473

   

6. Trajectory optimization and state selection for urban automated driving

   • Keisuke Yoneda
   • Toshiki Iida
   • Naoki Suganuma

   Original Article Open access 22 September 2018 Pages: 474 - 480

   

7. Generating and analyzing hierarchical interaction in a flock of robotic swarms

   • Toshiyuki Yasuda
   • Kazuhiro Ohkura

   Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 481 - 488

   

8. Gait generation for a biped robot with knees and torso via trajectory learning and state-transition estimation

   • Satoshi Satoh
   • Kenji Fujimoto

   Original Article 27 September 2018 Pages: 489 - 497

   

9. Agent-based models for first- and second-order emergent collective behaviours of social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum aggregation and migration phases

   • Mohammad Parhizkar
   • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

   Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 498 - 507

   

10. Nonlinear analysis of an indirectly controlled limit cycle walker

    • Longchuan Li
    • Isao Tokuda
    • Fumihiko Asano

    Original Article 24 September 2018 Pages: 508 - 514

    

11. Helical wave propagation motion for a snake robot on a vertical pipe containing a branch

    • Wei Qi
    • Tetsushi Kamegawa
    • Akio Gofuku

    Original Article 26 September 2018 Pages: 515 - 522

    

12. High-speed and energy-efficient collisionless walking of underactuated rimless wheel

    • Fumihiko Asano
    • Yanqiu Zheng

    Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 523 - 531

    

13. Robot sweep path planning with weak field constrains under large motion disturbance

    • Keita Nakamura
    • Haruna Nakazawa
    • Keitaro Naruse

    Original Article 24 September 2018 Pages: 532 - 539

    

14. Biomimetic pupils for augmenting eye emulation in humanoid robots

    • Carl Strathearn
    • Minhua Ma

    Original Article 04 October 2018 Pages: 540 - 546

    

15. Evolving autonomous specialization in congested path formation task of robotic swarms

    • Motoaki Hiraga
    • Yufei Wei
    • Kazuhiro Ohkura

    Original Article 25 September 2018 Pages: 547 - 554

    

16. Bio-inspired design and movement generation of dung beetle-like legs

    • J. Ignasov
    • A. Kapilavai
    • P. Manoonpong

    Original Article 10 October 2018 Pages: 555 - 563

    

17. Agreement algorithm using the trial and error method at the macrolevel

    • Nhuhai Phung
    • Masao Kubo
    • Saori Iwanaga

    Original Article 01 October 2018 Pages: 564 - 570

    

18. Development of an experimental system for a snake-like gliding model

    • Ryusuke Fujisawa
    • Motoyasu Tanaka
    • Taro Fujikawa

    Original Article 06 October 2018 Pages: 571 - 576

    

19. Robust synchronization of linear multi-agent system with input/output constraints

    • Kiyotsugu Takaba

    Original Article 06 October 2018 Pages: 577 - 584

    

20. Efficiency analysis of telescopic-legged bipedal robots

    • Yuji Harata
    • Yotaro Kato
    • Fumihiko Asano

    Original Article 01 October 2018 Pages: 585 - 592

    

21. Transportation simulator for disaster circumstance and bottleneck analysis

    • Takahiro Majima
    • Keiki Takadama
    • Keiji Sato

    Original Article 03 October 2018 Pages: 593 - 599

    

22. Evolutionary design method of probabilistic finite state machine for swarm robots aggregation

    • Yoshiaki Katada

    Original Article 09 October 2018 Pages: 600 - 608

    

23. Trophallaxis with predetermined energy threshold for enhanced performance in swarms of scavenger robots

    • Choladawan Moonjaita
    • Hemma Philamore
    • Fumitoshi Matsuno

    Original Article 10 November 2018 Pages: 609 - 617

    

24. The velocity updating rule according to an oblique coordinate system with mutation and dynamic scaling for particle swarm optimization

    • Tetsuyuki Takahama
    • Setsuko Sakai

    Original Article 10 October 2018 Pages: 618 - 627

    

25. Distributed model predictive consensus control for robotic swarm system

    • Toru Murayama

    Original Article 08 October 2018 Pages: 628 - 635

    

26. Autonomous role assignment and task allocation in scalable swarm robotic systems using local interactions

    • Kazuaki Yamada

    Original Article 10 October 2018 Pages: 636 - 644

    

27. Casualty-based cooperation in swarm robots

    • Ken Sugawara
    • Yohei Doi
    • Miki Shishido

    Original Article 08 October 2018 Pages: 645 - 650