{"id":168,"date":"2025-11-12T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:42:44","slug":"estimating-the-expected-time-to-enter-and-leave-a-common-target-area-in-robotic-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/2025\/11\/12\/estimating-the-expected-time-to-enter-and-leave-a-common-target-area-in-robotic-swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Expected Time to Enter and Leave a Common Target Area in Robotic Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-1024x742.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-1024x742.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-1536x1114.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram-676x490.png 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/files\/2025\/11\/congestionDiagram.png 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our recent work, published at Mathematics, we present a combination of an experimental and mathematical study for estimating the task completion time of a swarm of robots. Our work is a fundamental step regarding how to perform approximations of swarm robotics global behaviour, when the individual robots are controlled by local interaction rules.<\/p>\n<p>Our paper is freely available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2227-7390\/13\/21\/3552\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2227-7390\/13\/21\/3552<\/a>, and our source code is on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/yuri-tavares\/swarm-ad-hoc-follower\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent work, published at Mathematics, we present a combination of an experimental and mathematical study for estimating the task completion time of a swarm of robots. Our work is a fundamental step regarding how to perform approximations of swarm robotics global behaviour, when the individual robots are controlled by local interaction rules. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}