Roman Miletitch

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Roman Miletitch is a leading researcher in swarm robotics, with a primary focus on automatic design methods and collective decision-making in robot swarms. His most significant contribution is the development of the AutoMoDe-Chocolate system, which automatically generates control software for robot swarms, a breakthrough that has garnered 94 citations and established a new paradigm in swarm engineering. Miletitch's work bridges microscopic robot behaviors and macroscopic swarm dynamics, as demonstrated in his highly cited study on quantitative micro-macro links for collective decisions, which models how swarms discover and select shortest paths. With over 230 total citations across his publications, he has also pioneered research on language evolution in swarm robotics, exploring how robot collectives can develop emergent naming conventions for resources—work that has attracted 20 citations and opened new frontiers in artificial life. His experiments comparing automatic design methods against human experts have provided crucial benchmarks for the field, while his investigations into social odometry and renewable resource exploitation have advanced practical applications of swarm intelligence. Miletitch's interdisciplinary approach, combining robotics, complex systems, and linguistics, continues to shape how researchers understand and engineer collective behavior in artificial systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms

   94 citations · 2015
2. 2
   A quantitative micro–macro link for collective decisions: the shortest path discovery/selection example

   58 citations · 2015
3. 3
   An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms

   22 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Language Evolution in Swarm Robotics: A Perspective

   20 citations · 2020
5. 5
   Balancing exploitation of renewable resources by a robot swarm

   17 citations · 2018
6. 6
   An Experiment in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms AutoMoDe-Vanilla, EvoStick, and Human Experts

   9 citations · 2014
7. 7
   Information Aggregation Mechanisms in Social Odometry

   8 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Emergent naming conventions in a foraging robot swarm

   6 citations · 2022
9. 9
   Emergent naming of resources in a foraging robot swarm.

   2 citations · 2019

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