robotic swarm developers

Abstract: Organisms must constantly weigh exploiting the resources they know against exploring for better ones. When foragers compete, the best behavior for each forager also depends on what its competitors do. How does competition change the strategic balance between exploration and exploitation? Here we address this question in a minimal model: two $ε$-greedy temporal-difference learners on a one-dimensional lattice, who start at a small reward at one end and are unaware of a larger reward at the other. For a lone forager, the optimal exploration rate increases monotonically with the value of the distant reward, and with its distance up to a critical distance. When two foragers share the lattice and split rewards, the choice of exploration rate becomes a game whose Nash equilibria have both foragers exploring, both staying, or one exploring while the other stays (anti-coordination). Under local best-response dynamics, pairs of foragers often converge on both exploring or both staying, even when anti-coordination would be socially optimal. This social dilemma arises for a wide range of parameters, and it persists even in a simplified model without explicit spatial structure. A minimal, naturalistic signal, in which one forager informs the other that it has found the distant reward, can remove many of the dilemmas in which both foragers explore, and can produce a Nash equilibrium whose collective payoff exceeds that of every outcome available without signaling.

Abstract: Collective intelligence is a collaborative autonomy paradigm in which multiple agents pursue shared objectives through local perception, information exchange, and coordinated action. UAV swarms embody this paradigm by coordinating multiple vehicles in tasks such as search, inspection, and tracking. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have strengthened natural-language task understanding and high-level planning, providing a flexible semantic interface between mission descriptions and collective behavior. While these advances expand semantic reasoning, applying LLM agents to UAV swarms raises challenges in grounding model decisions in executable capabilities, reconciling global task reasoning with distributed execution, and using mission-specific experience for continual adaptation. To address these challenges, we introduce AeroWeaver, an embodied-agent harness that weaves individual UAV skills into coordinated mission-level behavior. AeroWeaver connects semantic decisions to governed skills, organizes role-conditioned local agents for distributed coordination, and uses role-indexed state-action-reward experience to refine skill selection online. Experiments and runtime validation show that AeroWeaver maintains valid skill execution under tested conditions and supports body-local multi-UAV operation without a central agent generating joint actions from global context, while reward-guided online updates provide a training-free path for adaptive learning swarm agents from accumulated execution experience. Code: https://github.com/Admire-ljb/AeroWeaver.