Blockchain: a new framework for swarm RObotic Systems

Project Information

BROS

Grant agreement ID: 751615

DOI 10.3030/751615

Project closed

EC signature date 8 March 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 258 530,40

EU contribution € 258 530,40

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UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Blockchain Technology Secures Robot Swarms: A Comparison of Consensus Protocols and Their Resilience to Byzantine Robots

Author(s): Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Marco Dorigo
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00054

Following Leaders in Byzantine Multirobot Systems by Using Blockchain Technology

Author(s): Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ernesto Jimenez, Jose Luis Lopez-Presa, Javier Martin-Rueda
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2021.3104243

Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies

Author(s): Aleksandr Kapitonov, Sergey Lonshakov, Ivan Berman, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Fabio P Bonsignorio, Vitaly Bulatov, Aleksandr Svistov
Published in: Ledger, Issue 4, 2019, ISSN 2379-5980
Publisher: Ledger
DOI: 10.5195/ledger.2019.177

Grex: A Decentralized Hive Mind

Author(s): Alex Khawalid, Dan Acristinii, Hans Van Toor, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer
Published in: Ledger, Issue 4, 2019, ISSN 2379-5980
Publisher: Ledger
DOI: 10.5195/ledger.2019.176

Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms

Author(s): Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, Marco Dorigo
Published in: Science Robotics, Issue 6/56, 2021, Page(s) eabf1538, ISSN 2470-9476
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abf1538

Secure Encoded Instruction Graphs for End-to-End Data Validation in Autonomous Robots

Author(s): Jorge Peña Queralta; Li Qingqing; Eduardo Castelló Ferrer; Tomi Westerlund
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/jiot.2022.3164545

Conference proceedings (4)

Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario

Author(s): Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo.
Published in: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), 2018, Page(s) 541--549
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.5555/3237383.3237464

RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Ferrer, Eduardo Castelló; Rudovic, Ognjen; Hardjono, Thomas; Pentland, Alex
Published in: International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine eTELEMED, Issue 1, 2018
Publisher: IARIA
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9959510

CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism

Author(s): Ognjen Rudovic, Yuria Utsumi, Jaeryoung Lee, Javier Hernandez, Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Bjorn Schuller, Rosalind W. Picard
Published in: 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, Page(s) 339-346, ISBN 978-1-5386-8094-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros.2018.8594177

Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

Author(s): Antonio Luca Alfeo, Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Yago Lizarribar Carrillo, Arnaud Grignard, Luis Alonso Pastor, Dylan T. Sleeper, Mario G. C. A. Cimino, Bruno Lepri, Gigliola Vaglini, Kent Larson, Marco Dorigo, Alex lSandy' Pentland
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, Page(s) 4233-4240, ISBN 978-1-5386-6027-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icra.2019.8794020

Book chapters (2)

BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Author(s): Luana Marrocco, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Antonio Bucchiarone, Arnaud Grignard, Luis Alonso, Kent Larson, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
Published in: Massively Multi-Agent Systems II - International Workshop, MMAS 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Issue 11422, 2019, Page(s) 144-162, ISBN 978-3-030-20936-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20937-7_10

Foundational Oracle Patterns: Connecting Blockchain to the Off-Chain World

Author(s): Roman Mühlberger, Stefan Bachhofner, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Claudio Di Ciccio, Ingo Weber, Maximilian Wöhrer, Uwe Zdun
Published in: Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum - BPM 2020 Blockchain and RPA Forum, Seville, Spain, September 13–18, 2020, Proceedings, Issue 393, 2020, Page(s) 35-51, ISBN 978-3-030-58778-9
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58779-6_3

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018

Author(s): Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
Published in: Ledger, Issue 4, 2019, ISSN 2379-5980
Publisher: Ledger
DOI: 10.5195/ledger.2019.179

Secure and secret cooperation of robotic swarms by using Merkle trees

Author(s): Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Thomas Hardjono, Marco Dorigo, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Published in: ArXiv, 2019, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ArXiv