The Geometry of Decision Making in Robotic Swarms.

Recent research suggests that when choosing among spatially distributed options, the brain repeatedly breaks multichoice decisions into a series of binary decisions in space–time. While previous studies have utilized fruit flies, desert locusts, and larval zebrafish to explore these fundamental geometric principles, we employ swarm robotics as a testbed to investigate how and why animals exhibit specific movement patterns.

Sindiso Mkhatshwa earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2023. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Informatik at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His research broadly focuses on collective decision-making in robot swarms.