arxivcs.RO2026-06-28
SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration
Haohua Que, Haojia Gao, Mingkai Liu, Qian Zhang, Jiajun Sun, Fei Qiao
Massive robot swarms can explore unknown environments quickly, but adding robots eventually stops helping. Doorways and dense traffic create congestion, increasing inter-robot contacts and reducing the value of each additional robot. We study this safety-efficiency tradeoff for g…