Bio-inspired decision making in robot swarms under biases
R. Zakir, T. Carletti, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
Nature Communications in press, 2026.
Research Group Leader - GIO Lab - Group Intelligence and self-Organisation
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, Universität Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Publications
Selected publications
Blockchain technology for mobile multi-robot systems
M. Dorigo, A. Pacheco, A. Reina, V. Strobel
Cross-inhibition leads to group consensus despite the presence of strongly opinionated minorities and asocial behaviour
A. Reina, R. Zakir, G. De Masi, E. Ferrante
Communications Physics 6: 236, 2023.
Magnitude-sensitivity: rethinking decision-making
A. Pirrone, A. Reina, T. Stafford, J.A.R. Marshall, F. Gobet
When less is more: Robot swarms adapt better to changes with constrained communication
M.S. Talamali, A. Saha, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
Model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees
A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni, T. Bose
All publications
R. Zakir, T. Carletti, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
Nature Communications in press, 2026.
Summary video available at https://youtu.be/CSirFypT9tY
E. Gatti, A. Reina, H.J. Williams
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, in press, 2026
S. Atasoy Bingöl, T. Töpfer, S. Kosub, H. Hamann, A. Reina
R. Wu, S. Atasoy Bingöl, O. Deussen, H. Hamann, I.D. Couzin, A. Reina, L. Li
In Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) in press. IEEE. 2026.
J. Kuckling, T.K. Kaiser, M.D. Soorati, K. Hasselmann, A. Reina, L. Pérez Cáceres, H. Hamann
C. Tomaselli, S. Covone, A. Reina, M. di Bernardo
In Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) in press. IEEE
S. Mkhatshwa, T. Zhang, P. Leopardi, H. Hamann, A. Reina
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) LNCS 16515: in press. Springer, Cham, 2026.
A. Doimo, H. Hamann, A. Reina, T. Beleyur
H. Hamann, A. Reina
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) LNCS 16515: in press. Springer, Cham, 2026.
A. Pacheco, S. De Vos, M. Dorigo, A. Reina, V. Strobel
G. Volpe, N.A.M. Araujo, M. Guix, M. Miodownik, N. Martin, L. Alvarez, J. Simmchen, R. di Leonardo, N. Pellicciotta, Q. Martinet, W.K. NG, D. Saxena, R. Sapienza, S. Nadine, R. Mahdavi, C. Beck Adiels, J. Forth, C. Santangelo, S. Palagi, J.M. Seok, V.A. Webster-Wood, S. Wang, L. Yao, A. Aghakhani, T. Barois, H. Kellay, C. Coulais, M. van Hecke, C.J. Pierce, T. Wang, B. Chong, D.I. Goldman, A. Reina, V. Trianni, G. Volpe, R. Beckett, S.P. Nair, R. Armstrong
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 37: 333501, 2025.
M. Pluhacek, S. Garnier, A. Reina
Swarm Intelligence 19: 333-360, 2025.
M. Dorigo, A. Pacheco, A. Reina, V. Strobel
J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
L. Bono Rosselló, M. Alkilabi, E. Tuci, H. Bersini, A. Reina
A. Reina, T. Njougouo, E. Tuci, T. Carletti
Physical Review E 109(5): 054307, 2024.
N. Antonic, R. Zakir, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2024 68-77. IFAAMAS, Richland, SC, 2024.
J. Kuckling, R. Luckey, V. Avrutin, A. Vardy, A. Reina, H. Hamann
R. Zakir, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
R. Zakir, M. Salahshour, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
S. Agrawal, J. Jhawar, A. Reina, S.P. Baliyarasimhuni, H. Hamann, L. Li
A. Moroncelli, A. Pacheco, V. Strobel, P. Lajoie, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
F. Oddi, A. Reina, V. Trianni
T. Njougouo, A. Reina, E. Tuci, T. Carletti
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 655: 130198, 2024.
A. Pacheco, U. Denis, R. Zakir, V. Strobel, A. Reina, M. Dorigo
H. Hamann, M. Dorigo, L. Pérez Cáceres, A. Reina, J. Kuckling, T.K. Kaiser, M. Soorati, K. Hasselmann, E. Buss
LNCS 14987, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2024.
L. Van Calck, A. Pacheco, V. Strobel, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
Scientific Reports 13: 20417, 2023.
A. Reina, R. Zakir, G. De Masi, E. Ferrante
Communications Physics 6: 236, 2023.
F. Pratissoli, A. Reina, Y. Kaszubowski Lopes, C. Pinciroli, G. Miyauchi, L. Sabattini, R. Gross
L. Feola, A. Reina, M.S. Talamali, V. Trianni
This work was also included in the conference proceedings of ICRA 2024 —the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation— Yokohama, Japan (Acceptance Rate about 45%)
A. Reina, T. Bose, V. Srivastava, J.A.R. Marshall
Royal Society Open Science 10: 230175, 2023.
H. Zhao, A. Pacheco, V. Strobel, A. Reina, X. Liu, G. Dudek, M. Dorigo
In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023) 8839-8846. IEEE. 2023.
L. Feola, A. Sion, A. Reina, V. Trianni, E. Tuci
T. Njougouo, T. Carletti, A. Reina, E. Tuci
A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall
PLoS Computational Biology 18(5): e1010090, 2022.
A. Pirrone, A. Reina, T. Stafford, J.A.R. Marshall, F. Gobet
J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina, C. Hay, A. Dussutour, A. Pirrone
PLoS Computational Biology 18: e1010523, 2022.
H. Hamann, A. Reina
IEEE Transactions on Computers 71(6): 1453-1465, 2022.
R. Zakir, M. Dorigo, A. Reina
T. Aust, M.S. Talamali, M. Dorigo, H. Hamann, A. Reina
A. Pacheco, V. Strobel, A. Reina, M. Dorigo
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2022) LNCS 13491: 196-208. Springer, Cham, 2022.
A. Sion, A. Reina, M. Birattari, E. Tuci
S. Agrawal, S.P. Baliyarasimhuni, A. Reina
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2022) LNCS 13491: 350-359. Springer, Cham, 2022.
A. Sion, A. Reina, M. Birattari, E. Tuci
R. Miletitch, A. Reina, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni
M.S. Talamali, A. Saha, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
This study has also been discussed in commentaries published in The Conversation and in PNAS Journal Club, among others.
Part of this work has also been presented at NetSci 2020 (online).
A. Pirrone, A. Reina, F. Gobet
Judgment and Decision Making 16(5): 1221-1333, 2021.
A. Reina, E. Ferrante, G. Valentini
Swarm Intelligence 15(1-2): 1-6, 2021.
A. Saha, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
PLoS One 16(11): e0259736, 2021.
A. Reina
Nature Machine Intelligence 2: 240-241, 2020.
M.S. Talamali, T. Bose, M. Haire, X. Xu, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
Swarm Intelligence 14(1): 25-56, 2020.
T. Bose, A. Pirrone, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall
H. Hamann, T. Aust, A. Reina
T. Bose, F. Bottom, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall
Computational Brain \& Behavior 3: 66-85, 2020.
J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina, T. Bose
PLoS ONE 14(9): e0222906, 2019.
I. Rausch, A. Reina, P. Simoens, Y. Khaluf
Swarm Intelligence 13(3--4): 321-345, 2019.
M.S. Talamali, J.A.R. Marshall, T. Bose, A. Reina
F. Canciani, M.S. Talamali, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
Proceedings of Workshop Resilient Robot Teams of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019) 4 pages. 2019.
F. Pratissoli, A. Reina, Y. Kaszubowski Lopes, L. Sabattini, R. Gross
A. Reina, V. Ioannou, J. Chen, L. Lu, C. Kent, J.A.R. Marshall
arXiv: 1910.12294, 2019
T. Bose, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall
M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, A.L. Christensen, A. Reina, V. Trianni
Swarm Intelligence 13(3-4): 169-172, 2019.
A. Reina, T. Bose, V. Trianni, J.A.R. Marshall
Scientific Reports 8(1): 4387, 2018.
A. Reina, T. Bose, V. Trianni, J.A.R. Marshall
In Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2016): The 13th International Symposium SPAR 6: 461-473. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2018.
A. Font Llenas, M.S. Talamali, X. Xu, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
C. Pinciroli, M.S. Talamali, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni
In Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2018) LNCS 11172: 176-187. Springer, Cham, 2018.
M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, C. Blum, A.L. Christensen, A. Reina, V. Trianni
LNCS 11172, Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
A. Reina, A.J. Cope, E. Nikolaidis, J.A.R. Marshall, C. Sabo
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2(3): 1755-1761, 2017.
This work will be also included in the conference proceedings of IROS 2017 —the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems— Vancouver, Canada (Acceptance Rate 45%)
A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, V. Trianni, T. Bose
This study has been presented in the conference Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE 2017) and the 16th International Behavioral Ecology Congress (ISBE 2016).
Y. Khaluf, C. Markarian, P. Simoens, A. Reina
In Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2017 LNCS 10349: 144-156. Springer, Cham, 2017.
T. Bose, A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall
E. Nikolaidis, C. Sabo, J.A.R. Marshall, A. Reina
Figshare, The University of Sheffield. 2017
V. Trianni, D. De Simone, A. Reina, A. Baronchelli
This work has been also included in the conference proceedings of ICRA 2016 —the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation— (Acceptance Rate 34.7%)
A. Reina, J.A.R. Marshall, T. Bose
The 14th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB) 1-2. 2016.
A. Reina
Phd Thesis Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2016.
A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernández-Oto, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni
A. Reina, R. Miletitch, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni
A. Reina, M. Salvaro, G. Francesca, L. Garattoni, C. Pinciroli, M. Dorigo, M. Birattari
G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, L. Garattoni, R. Miletitch, G. Podevijn, A. Reina, T. Soleymani, M. Salvaro, C. Pinciroli, F. Mascia, V. Trianni, M. Birattari
A. Reina, L.M. Gambardella, M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 11(119): 1-6, 2014.
A. Reina, V. Trianni
A. Reina, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni
G. Francesca, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, L. Garattoni, R. Miletitch, G. Podevijn, A. Reina, T. Soleymani, M. Salvaro, C. Pinciroli, V. Trianni, M. Birattari
A. Reina, M. Dorigo, V. Trianni
In Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 1421-1422. IFAAMAS, Richland, SC, 2014.
A. Stranieri, A.E. Turgut, M. Salvaro, G. Francesca, A. Reina, M. Dorigo, M. Birattari
TR/IRIDIA/2013-013 IRIDIA, Universit'e Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
A. Reina
Master Thesis Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2012.
A. Reina, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, L.M. Gambardella
A. Reina, C. Pinciroli, E. Ferrante, A.E. Turgut, R. O'Grady, M. Birattari, M. Dorigo
TR/IRIDIA/2011-020 IRIDIA, Universit'e Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2011
A. Reina
Master Thesis Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information, Milan, Italy, 2010.
A. Reina, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, L.M. Gambardella
Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion Planning: From Theory to Practice at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 33-34, Zaragoza, Spain, 2010.