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  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Control Systems

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  • Swarm robotics enables large-scale robot coordination but faces challenges in designing individual behaviors for emergent collective actions.
  • Automatic design of control software is emerging as a key solution for these challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advances and trends in automatic design methods for swarm robotics.
  • To discuss challenges and future research directions in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Review of offline robot evolution techniques.
  • Analysis of embodied evolution approaches.
  • Examination of offline robot learning methods for swarm control.

Main Results:

  • Highlights recent design methods in offline robot evolution, embodied evolution, and offline robot learning.
  • Identifies common challenges encountered in these automatic design approaches.
  • Provides a perspective on current trends shaping future research.

Conclusions:

  • Automatic design, particularly through evolution and learning, is crucial for overcoming swarm robotics design challenges.
  • Future research should focus on leveraging these trends to enhance the design of complex robot swarms.