Dorigo, MarcoTuci, ElioGroß, RoderichTrianni, VitoLabella, Thomas HalvaNouyan, ShervinDeneubourg, Jean-LouisBaldassarre, GianlucaNolfi, StefanoMondada, F.Floreano, DarioGambardella, Luca Maria2006-01-122006-01-122006-01-12200410.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/221610WOS:0002281815000046554This paper provides an overview of the SWARM-BOTS project, a robotic project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community (IST-2000-31010). The paper illustrates the robot hardware, and the results of experimental works in which distributed adaptive controllers are designed to allow the agents to perform a variety of tasks which require cooperation and coordination among the members of a group.Swarm RoboticsSWARM_BOTSEvolutionary Roboticstext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper