Dr Roderich Gross

PhD, SMIEEE, MACM

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer in Robotics and Computational Intelligence

Roderich Gross
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r.gross@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Roderich Gross
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 3JD
Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of 91Ö±²¥, a Visiting Scientist at CSAIL, MIT, and an Executive Committee Member of 91Ö±²¥ Robotics, where I lead the Enabling Technologies theme. I received a Ph.D. degree in engineering science in 2007 from Université libre de Bruxelles, and was a JSPS Fellow (Tokyo Institute of Technology), a Research Associate (University of Bristol), and a Marie Curie Fellow (EPFL & Unilever). My research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. I have made contributions to the coordination of robot swarms and reconfigurable robots, and invented a machine learning method called Turing Learning. I served as the General Chair of DARS 2016 and as an Editor of IROS 2015-18. Currently, I serve as an Associate Editor of Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and ICRA 2019.

Research interests
  • swarm robotics, self-reconfigurable robots, multi-robot coordination, collaborative robots
  • robotics software/tools (human-robot interaction interfaces, formal design tools, operating systems)
  • machine learning for behavior inference (Turing Learning, generative adversarial networks)
  • autonomous systems and decision making
  • natural computing (swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, artificial life)
Publications

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2012) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Alboul L, Melhuish C, Witkowski M, Prescott T & Penders J (Eds.) (2011) . Springer Verlag. RIS download Bibtex download
  • (Ed.) (2010) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface.. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Pratissoli F, Reina A, Kaszubowski Lopes Y, Pinciroli C, Miyauchi G, Sabattini L & Gross R (2023) . Nature Communications, 14. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sun G, Zhou R, Ma Z, Li Y, Groß R, Chen Z & Zhao S (2023) . Nat Commun, 14(1), 3476. RIS download Bibtex download
  • King AJ, Portugal SJ, Strömbom D, Mann RP, Carrillo JA, Kalise D, de Croon G, Barnett H, Scerri P, Groß R , Chadwick DR et al (2023) . Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), 478-486. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wang Z, Gross R & Zhao S (2022) . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 2140-2147. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wang Z, Groß R & Zhao S (2022) . Aerospace Science and Technology, 120. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Doyle MJ, Amorim Marques JV, Vandermeulen I, Parrott C, Gu Y, Xu X, Kolling A & Groß R (2021) . IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 37(2), 532-549. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tarapore D, Gross R & Zauner K-P (2020) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wang Z, Groß R & Zhao S (2020) . Advanced Control for Applications, 2(2). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Trenkwalder SM, Esnaola I, Kaszubowski Lopes Y, Kolling A & Gross R (2020) . AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS, 44(1), 93-114. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Kolling A, Berman S, Martinoli A, Frazzoli E & Matsuno F (2018) . Autonomous Robots, 42(8), 1521-1523. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ozdemir A, Gauci M, Bonnet S & Groß R (2018) . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3), 1346-1353. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Perez-Diaz F, Zillmer R & Gross R (2017) . Physical Review Applied, 7(5). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W, Gauci M & Groß R (2016) . Swarm Intelligence, 10(3), 211-243. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lopes YK, Trenkwalder SM, Leal AB, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2016) . SWARM INTELLIGENCE, 10(1), 65-97. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Glancy J, Groß R, Stone JV & Wilson SP (2015) . PLoS Comput Biol, 11(9), e1004283. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chen J, Gauci M, Li W, Kolling A & Groß R (2015) . IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 31(2), 307-321. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gauci M, Chen J, Li W, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2014) . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH, 33(8), 1145-1161. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dorigo M, Birattari M, Blum C, Christensen AL, Engelbrecht A, Gross R & Stutzle T (2013) . SWARM INTELLIGENCE, 7(2-3), 79-81. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gauci M, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2012) . NATURAL COMPUTING, 11(4), 719-720. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Penders J, Alboul L, Prescott T, Gross R, Melhuish C & Witkowski M (2012) . ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, 60(11), 1355-1355. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dorigo M, Birattari M, Di Caro G, Doursat R, Engelbrecht A, Gambardella LM, Gross R, Sahin E & Stutzle T (2011) . SWARM INTELLIGENCE, 5(3-4), 143-147. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Correll N & Gross R (2010) . NEURAL COMPUT APPL, 19(6), 785-786. RIS download Bibtex download
  • O'Grady R, Gross R, Christensen AL & Dorigo M (2010) . AUTON ROBOT, 28(4), 439-455. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nouyan S, Gross R, Bonani M, Mondada F & Dorigo M (2009) . IEEE T EVOLUT COMPUT, 13(4), 695-711. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2009) . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTATION, 1(1-2), 1-13. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R (2008) Self-Assembling Robots.. Künstliche Intell., 22, 61-63. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2008) . ADAPT BEHAV, 16(5), 285-305. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2008) . P IEEE, 96(9), 1490-1508. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Houston AI, Collins EJ, McNamara JM, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX & Franks NR (2008) . J R SOC INTERFACE, 5(27), 1193-1202. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Franks NR, Hooper JW, Gumn M, Bridger TH, Marshall JAR & Groß R (2007) . Swarm Intell., 1, 81-94. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Bonani M, Mondada F & Dorigo M (2006) . IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, 22(6), 1115-1130. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tuci E, Gross R, Trianni V, Mondada F, Bonani M & Dorigo M (2006) Cooperation Through Self-Assembly in Multi-Robot Systems. ACM T AUTON ADAP SYS, 1(2), 115-150. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dorigo M, Trianni V, Sahin E, Gross R, Labella TH, Baldassarre G, Nolfi S, Deneubourg JL, Mondada F, Floreano D & Gambardella LM (2004) Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarm-bot. AUTON ROBOT, 17(2-3), 223-245. RIS download Bibtex download
  • li K, Li L, GROSS R & Zhao S () . New Journal of Physics. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bray E & Gross R () Recent Developments in Self-Assembling Multi-Robot Systems. Current Robotics Reports. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Groß R (2023) , Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 2727-2728). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R (2022) , Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1-2). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R, Kolling A, Berman S, Frazzoli E, Martinoli A, Matsuno F & Gauci M (2019) , Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp. C1-C1). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R (2015) In Gargaud M (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 2239-2240). Springer RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blum C & Gross R (2015) Swarm Intelligence in Optimization and Robotics In Kacprzyk J & Pedrycz W (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence (pp. 1291-1309). Berlin, Germany: Springer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blum C & Groß R (2015) , Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence (pp. 1289). RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2015) , Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 2227-2227). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R (2014) , Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1-2). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, O'Grady R, Christensen AL & Dorigo M (2013) In Kernbach S (Ed.), Handbook of Collective Robotics: Fundamentals and Challenges (pp. 49-79). Pan Stanford Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R (2011) In Gargaud M (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Astrobiology RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2011) , Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (pp. 1487-1487). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dorigo M, Tuci E, Trianni V, Gross R, Nouyan S, Ampatzis C, Labella HT, O'Grady R, Bonani M & Mondada F (2006) SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-assembling Robots In Yen GY & Fogel DB (Ed.), Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice (pp. 103-135). NY: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Miyauchi G, Lopes YK & Gross R (2023) . 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Proceedings (pp 8847-8853). Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1 October 2023 - 1 October 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Amorim Marques JV, Lorente M-T & Gross R (2022) Multi-Robot Systems Research: A Data-Driven Trend Analysis. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, 28 November 2022 - 30 November 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dosieah GY, Ozdemir A, Gauci M & Gross R (2022) . Swarm Intelligence: 13th International Conference, ANTS 2022, Málaga, Spain, November 2–4, 2022, Proceedings (pp 183-195). Cham, 2 November 2022 - 4 November 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Miyauchi G, Lopes YK & Gross R (2022) . 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Huanca CEPY, Incremona GP, Gross R & Colaneri P (2022) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATICS IN CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS (ICINCO) (pp 492-499) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bray E & Groß R (2022) . Robotics: Science and System XVIII. New York, NY, USA, 27 June 2022 - 27 June 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green T, Kamel K, Li S, Shinn C, Toscano P, Wang X, Ye Y & Groß R (2022) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2021, Vol. 13054 (pp 349-353). Lincoln, United Kingdom, 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bray E & Gross R (2021) . Proceedings of 2021 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) (pp 110-118). Cambridge, UK, 4 November 2021 - 4 November 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dhesi A & Groß R (2021) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 13054 (pp 360-364). Lincoln, United Kingdom, 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vandermeulen I, Groß R & Kolling A (2021) . 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 4774-4781). Las Vegas, NV, USA, 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kaszubowski Lopes Y, Trenkwalder SM, Leal AB, Dodd TJ & Groß R (2020) . Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 7193-7199). Paris, France, 31 May 2020 - 31 May 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gu Y, Wei L & Groß R (2020) . GECCO 2020: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp 121-122). New York, NY, USA, 8 July 2020 - 8 July 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hall MD, Özdemir A & Groß R (2020) . Robotics: Science and Systems RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marques JVA, Ozdemir A, Doyle MJ, Rus D & Groß R (2019) . IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 4855-4861) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ozdemir A, Romanishin JW, Gross R & Rus D (2019) . International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, MRS 2019 (pp 245-251) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pratissoli F, Reina A, Kaszubowski Lopes Y, Sabattini L & Gross R (2019) . Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (pp 50-52). New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 22 August 2019 - 23 August 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Oliehoek FA, Savani R, Gallego J, van der Pol E & Groß R (2019) . Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1021 (pp 73-89) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ozdemir A, Gauci M, Kolling A, Hall M & Gross R (2019) . 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 9674-9680). Montreal, Canada, 20 May 2019 - 20 May 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vandermeulen I, Groß R & Kolling A (2019) . Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2019-May (pp 1014-1020) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kuang Y, Lopes YK & Gross R (2019) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 20th Annual Conference, TAROS 2019 (pp 462-466), 3 July 2019 - 5 July 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Millard A, Ravikanna R, Gross R & Chesmore D (2019) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 20th Annual Conference (pp 458-461), 3 July 2019 - 5 July 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vandermeulen I, Gross R & Kolling A (2019) . 2019 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp 1479-1487). Montreal, Canada, 13 May 2019 - 13 May 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pratissoli F, Reina A, Lopes YK, Sabahini L & Gross R (2019) A Soft-Bodied Modular Reconfigurable Robotic System Composed of Interconnected Kilobots. 2019 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTI-ROBOT AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (MRS 2019) (pp 53-55) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vandermeulen I, Gross R & Kolling A (2018) Re-establishing communication in teams of mobile robots. 2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS) (pp 7947-7954) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parrott C, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2018) . Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium, Vol. 6 (pp 401-414). London, UK, 7 November 2016 - 7 November 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Escalera JA, Doyle MJ, Mondada F & Gross R (2018) . Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium, Vol. 6 (pp 373-385). London, UK, 7 November 2016 - 7 November 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Perez-Diaz F, Trenkwalder SM, Zillmer R & Gross R (2018) . Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: 13th International Symposium (pp 475-486). London, UK, 7 November 2016 - 7 November 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R, Kolling A, Berman S, Frazzoli E, Martinoli A, Matsuno F & Gauci M (2018) Preface. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 6 (pp vii-viii) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Li W & Gauci M (2017) Generalizing GANs: A Turing Perspective. Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 4 December 2017 - 9 December 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Özdemir A, Gauci M & Gross R (2017) . Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL 2017, 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lopes YK, Trenkwalder SM, Leal AB, Dodd TJ & Groß R (2017) Probabilistic supervisory control theory (pSCT) applied to swarm robotics. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, Vol. 3 (pp 1395-1403) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Trenkwalder SM, Lopes YK, Kolling A, Christensen AL, Prodan R & Gross R (2016) . Proceedings of IROS 2016. Daejeon, Korea, 9 October 2016 - 9 October 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kapellmann G, Salomons N, Kolling A & Gross R (2016) . Swarm Intelligence (pp 125-136). Brussels, Belgium, 7 September 2016 - 7 September 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kapellmann-Zafra G, Chen J & Gross R (2016) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9716 (pp 196-201). 91Ö±²¥, UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Salomons N, Kapellmann-Zafra G & Gross R (2016) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9716 (pp 282-287). 91Ö±²¥, UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Doyle M, Xu X, Gu Y, Perez-Diaz F, Parrott C & Gross R (2016) . 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 5189-5196). Stockholm, Sweden, 16 May 2016 - 16 May 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Perez-Diaz F, Zillmer R & Gross R (2015) Firefly-Inspired Synchronization in Swarms of Mobile Agents. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp 279-286). Richland, SC, 4 May 2015 - 4 May 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parrott C, Dodd T & Gross R (2014) . Proc. of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014 (pp 3926-3932). Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 18 May 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Escalera JA & Gross R (2014) Evo-bots: A Modular Robotics Platform with Efficient Energy Sharing. IROS 2014 Modular and Swarm Robotics Workshop. Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 14 September 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parrott C, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2014) Towards a 3-DOF Mobile and Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot. IROS 2014 Modular and Swarm Robotics Workshop. Chicago, IL, 14 September 2014 - 14 September 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lopes YK, Leal AB, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2014) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp 62-73). Brussels, Belgium, 10 September 2014 - 12 May 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W, Gauci M & Gross R (2014) . Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp 201-208). Vancouver, Canada, 12 July 2014 - 15 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gauci M, Chen J, Li W, Dodd TJ & Groß R (2014) Clustering objects with robots that do not compute. 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, Vol. 1 (pp 421-428) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gauci M, Chen J, Dodd TJ & Gross R (2014) Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems with Binary Sensors. 11th Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (pp 325-338). Baltimore, ML RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chen J, Gauci M & Gross R (2013) . 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013 (pp 863-869) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Li W, Gauci M & Gross R (2013) A Coevolutionary Approach to Learn Animal Behavior Through Controlled Interaction. GECCO'13: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (pp 223-230) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Glancy J, Groß R & Wilson SP (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 381-383) RIS download Bibtex download
  • O'Grady R, Christensen AL, Gross R & Dorigo M (2012) Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring. IROS 2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ding R, Eastwood P, Mondada F & Groß R (2012) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 416-417) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chen J, Gauci M, Price MJ & Groß R (2012) Segregation in swarms of e-puck robots based on the Brazil nut effect. 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track, Vol. 2 (pp 688-695) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gauci M, Chen J, Dodd TJ & Groß R (2012) Evolving Aggregation Behaviors in Multi-Robot Systems with Binary Sensors.. DARS, Vol. 104 (pp 355-367) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Price MJ & Groß R (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 428-429) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chen J & Groß R (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 380-381) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Foster S & Groß R (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 394-395) RIS download Bibtex download
  • O'Grady R, Pinciroli C, Groß R, Christensen AL, Mondada F, Bonani M & Dorigo M (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 5777 LNAI(PART 1) (pp 165-172) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R, Magnenat S, Küchler L, Massaras V, Bonani M & Mondada F (2011) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 5777 LNAI(PART 1) (pp 173-180) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Magnenat S & Mondada F (2009) Segregation in Swarms of Mobile Robots Based on the Brazil Nut Effect. 2009 IEEE-RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (pp 4349-4356) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Nouyan S, Bonani M, Mondada F & Dorigo M (2008) Division of labour in self-organised groups. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 10, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 5040 (pp 426-436) RIS download Bibtex download
  • O'Grady R, Groß R, Christensen AL, Mondada F, Bonani M & Dorigo M (2007) Performance benefits of self-assembly in a swarm-bot.. IROS (pp 2381-2387) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2007) Fifty Years of Self-Assembly Experimentation. Workshop and Tutorials - CD, 2007 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Mondada F & Dorigo M (2006) Transport of an object by six pre-attached robots interacting via physical links. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-10 (pp 1317-1323) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Tuci E, Dorigo M, Bonani M & Mondada F (2006) Object transport by modular robots that self-assemble. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-10 (pp 2558-2564) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Campo A, Nouyan S, Birattari M, Groß R & Dorigo M (2006) Enhancing cooperative transport using negotiation of goal direction. Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nouyan S, Gross R, Dorigo M, Bonani M & Mondada F (2006) Group Transport Along a Robot Chain in a Self-Organised Robot Colony. INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 9 (pp 433-442) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Dorigo M & Yamakita M (2006) Self-assembly of Mobile Robots: From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony. INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 9 (pp 487-496) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R, Bonani M, Mondada F & Dorigo M (2006) Autonomous self-assembly in a swarm-bot. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) (pp 314-322) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Campo A, Nouyan S, Birattari M, Gross R & Dorigo M (2006) Negotiation of goal direction for cooperative transport. ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 4150 (pp 191-202) RIS download Bibtex download
  • O'Grady R, Gross R, Mondada R, Bonani M & Dorigo M (2005) Self-assembly on demand in a group of physical autonomous mobile robots navigating rough terrain. ADVANCES IN ARTIFICAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 3630 (pp 272-281) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dorigo M, Tuci E, Gross R, Trianni V, Labella TH, Nouyan S, Ampatzis C, Deneubourg JL, Baldassarre G, Nolfi S , Mondada F et al (2005) The SWARM-BOTS project. SWARM ROBOTICS, Vol. 3342 (pp 31-44) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2004) Evolving a cooperative transport behavior for two simple robots. ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION, Vol. 2936 (pp 305-316) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2004) Cooperative transport of objects of different shapes and sizes. ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 3172 (pp 106-117) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gross R & Dorigo M (2004) Group transport of an object to a target that only some group members may sense. PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE - PPSN VIII, Vol. 3242 (pp 852-861) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Trianni V, Gross R, Labella TH, Sahin E & Dorigo M (2003) Evolving aggregation behaviors in a swarm of robots. ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 2801 (pp 865-874) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R, Albrecht K, Kantschik W & Banzhaf W (2002) Evolving Chess Playing Programs.. GECCO (pp 740-747) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Miyauchi G, Talamali MS & Gross R () A comparative study of energy replenishment strategies for robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence. Konstanz, Germany, 9 October 2024 - 9 October 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gilmour JWG, Bray E & Gross R () Towards Heterogeneous Modular Robotic Systems for Industrial Applications. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 24th Annual Conference, TAROS 2023, Cambridge, UK, 12 September 2023 - 12 September 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kellett J, Bray E & Gross R () Angled Cantilever Construction by Force-Aware Robotic Swarms. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 24th Annual Conference, TAROS 2023, Cambridge, UK, 12 September 2023 - 12 September 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Groß R () . USES Conference Proceedings RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

  • Ozdemir A, Romanishin JW, Gross R & Rus D . RIS download Bibtex download
Grants
  • Horizon Europe OpenSwarm: , £463,699, from 01/01/2023
  • EPSRC 'EPSRC Core Capital', £104,196, from 22/01/2020
  • DSTL 'DSTL Multi Robot Systems', £98.781, from 30/10/2019
  • Industry Research/Consultancy, 'Modular robotics', from 24/03/2017
  • EPSRC 'Robotics Capital Equipment' £462,075, 01/10/2016 - 31/03/2017
  • EPSRC â€˜Human-Machine Cooperation in Robotics and Autonomous Systems’, £330,333.80 (App No.138565) 01/07/2013 – 30/09/2014
  • ESPRC â€˜Evo-Bots’, £100,905 (App No. 135020) 01/07/2013 – 31/12/2014
  • EU FP7 'Evolving Robots', £37,125 (PERG07-GA-2010-267354) 01/09/2010 - 31/08/2013
  • Unilever Research â€˜Unilever Research Portsunlight’, £62,414 (App No. 132096) 01/11/2011 – 31/07/2012
Teaching activities

I currently teach the following modules:

  • ACS6501 Foundations of Robotics
Professional activities and memberships
  • General Chair:  (13th Int Symp on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems)
  • Chair,  (2016-2017)
  • Editor,  - 2015 (IEEE/RSJ Int Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
  • Associate Editor:  (from 2015)
  • Associate Editor:  (from 2015)
  • Associate Editor:  (from 2013)
  • Associate Editor: , 2015 - 2012 (IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation)
  • Associate Editor: IROS, 2014 - 2012 (IEEE/RSJ Int Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
  • Program Co-Chair:  (Swarm Intelligence Track)
  • Program Co-Chair:  (Robotics Track)
  • Program Co-Chair:  (8th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
  • Program Co-Chair:  (12th Conf Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems)
  • Publication Chair:  (7th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
  • Best/Outstanding Associate Editors: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • Member of the Editorial Board: 
  • Part Editor: 
  • Guest Editor: Distributed Robotics special issue (Auton Robots, 2018)
  • Guest Editor: Swarm Robotics special issue (Neural Comput & Appl, 2010)
  • Guest Editor: TAROS 2011 special issue (Robot Auton Syst)
  • Guest Editor: ANTS 2010 and ANTS 2012 special issues (Swarm Intell)
  • Grant Reviewer for national funding bodies (EU, Canada, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)
  • Reviewer (e.g., Royal Soc Interface, IEEE Trans Robot, Int J Robot Res, IEEE Trans Evol Compt, PLoS ONE)
  • SPC Member: 
  • PC Member: RSS 2020, NeurIPS 2020, IJCAI 2020, AAMAS 2020, GECCO 2020 

Invited talks (selected)

  • "Advances in distributed robotics and Turing Learning", SSR, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2018)
  • "Robots, swarms and Turing learning", Plenary talk at 27th ERNSI Workshop (European Research Network on System Identification), Cambridge, UK (2018)
  • "Robots, swarms and Turing learning", Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Konstanz, Germany (2018)
  • "Less is more? Defining your building blocks", Dagstuhl seminar on Algorithmic Foundations of Programmable Matter, Germany (2018)
  • "Less is more? Controlling swarms and Turing learning", Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA) Workshop, UCL, UK (2018)
  • "Less is more? Controlling swarms and Turing learning", Conference on Collective Robotics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics/UNESCO, Italy (2018) 
  • "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", Janelia Conference on Distributed, Collective Computation in Biological and Artificial Systems, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA (2018)
  • "Swarms - design, interaction and learning", University of Southampton, UK (2017)
  • "Advances in massively distributed robotics and machine learning", ULB, Brussels, Belgium (2017)
  • "Bandits, swarms, and Turing Learning", University of Bristol, UK (2017)
  • "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", 2016 CCS Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2016)
  • "Controlling swarms of robots without computation", JSPS EPSRC UK - Japan Workshop on Soft Robotics, University of Cambridge, UK (2016)
  • "Swarm robotics", IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems, NUS, Singapore (2016)
  • "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", University of Liverpool, UK (2016)
  • "Less is more? New approaches for swarm control and inference", NIPS 2016 Workshop, Montreal, Canada (2015)
  • "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015)
  • "Controlling robot swarms - from theory to practice - and evolution beyond control", EPFL, Switzerland (2015)
  • "Swarm robotics - the future of healthcare?", RE.WORK Future Tech Summit, London, UK (2015)
  • "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - ULB, Belgium (2014)
  • "Swarm robotics: Minimalism, learning and evolution" - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (2014)
  • "Is less more? Design principles for massively distributed robotic systems" - The Royal Society UK-Russia Frontiers of Science meeting, Kazan, Russia (2013)
  • "Towards distributed autonomous robotic systems," CSAIL, MIT, USA (2012)
  • "Towards autonomous robotic systems," Transducers Science and Technology Group, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands (2011)
  • "From natural swarms to swarms of robots," Thrilling Wonder Stories 3, Architectural Association London, UK (2011)
  • "Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale," Self-Assembly on all Scales workshop, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany (2011)
  • "Autonomous mobile systems inspired by nature," Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany (2009)
  • "Autonomous robotic systems inspired by nature," Fakultaet fuer Informatik, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany (2009)
  • "Physical interactions in multi-robot systems," Faculty of EE & IT, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany (2009)
  • "Self-assembling robots: Physical interactions in collective robotics," IPVS, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany (2008)
  • "What properties are required for individuals that work in groups or teams?," IPAB, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK (2007)
  • "Teamwork in colonies of insect-like robots," Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK (2007)
  • "Self-assembly and its use in swarm-bot," Murata Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2005)
  • "Group transport by a self-assembling robotic system," Kosuge and Wang Lab, Tohoku Univ., Japan (2005)
  • "Swarm-bots: A self-assembling robotic system," Fukuda Lab, Nagoya Univ., Japan (2005)