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Sep 07, 2026 Gave a talk at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), part of the National Research Council of Italy.
Thanks to Vito Trianni for the invitation!
Jun 19, 2026 Paper accepted at From Animals to Animats: The 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB)!
Density-Driven Emergent Division of Labor in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems
Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser
May 15, 2026 Ethan Beaudoin joins the Cyber-physical Systems Group through the DAAD RISE Germany program from the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. During his internship he will work on artificial neural network controllers, assessing the transferability and robustness of controllers synthesized in simulation once deployed on real robots.
Mar 21, 2026 Poster paper accepted at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2026!
The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems
Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser
Mar 11, 2026 Attending the 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC 2026).
See you in Cologne!
Jan 30, 2026 Papers accepted at ANTS 2026 - The Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence!
  • ROS-2-ARGoS bridge: scalable simulations of swarms of 1000 and more robots (full paper)
    Sindiso Mkhatshwa, Tianfu Zhang, Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann and Andreagiovanni Reina
  • On the cost of evolving task specialization in multi-robot systems (short paper)
    Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling and Tanja Katharina Kaiser
  • Minimizing uncertainty as a principle for task allocation in robot swarms (extended abstract)
    Yannick Wesseloh, Paolo Leopardi, Jonas Kuckling and Heiko Hamann
Jun 30, 2025 Raj Ammu joins the Cyber-physical Systems Group through the DAAD Rise Germany program from the University of Sheffield, UK. His work will focus on setting up and running the experimental setups on real TurtleBot 4 robots, ensuring a smooth transition from simulation to reality.
Feb 12, 2025 Attending the Eleventh International Conference on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2025).
See you in Tübingen!
Nov 09, 2024 Attending ANTS 2024 - The Fourteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence as a volunteer.
See you in Konstanz!
Nov 01, 2024 Nick Göckel joins the Cyber-physical Systems Group for a five-month internship after earning his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He will be responsible for implementing and deploying the controller on real TurtleBot 4 robots, bridging the gap between simulation and real-world execution.
Jul 29, 2024 Attending the 2024 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in the beautiful city of Prague. I had the opportunity to connect with many colleagues doing research in multi-robot systems.
Nov 15, 2023 Starting my PhD at the University of Konstanz and Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour. My research focuses on division of labor and task allocation in robot swarms.