The field of swarm robotics and acoustic interactions is experiencing significant growth, with a focus on developing innovative methods for formation control, maneuvering, and multimodal interactions. Researchers are exploring new approaches to enable swarms of robots to perform complex tasks, such as formation tracking, target enclosing, and circumnavigation, using techniques like guiding vector fields and distributed coordination mechanisms. Additionally, the integration of acoustophoresis with swarm robotics is opening up new possibilities for interactive and flexible platforms. Notably, the development of AcoustoBots, a swarm of robots with a movable and reconfigurable phased array of transducers, is enabling novel multimodal interactions and scalable acoustic control frameworks.

Noteworthy Papers

• The paper on Formation Maneuver Control Based on the Augmented Laplacian Method proposes a novel approach for 2-D and 3-D formation control, allowing for arbitrary orientation rotations and improved flexibility.
• The AcoustoBots paper introduces a novel convergence of acoustophoresis with a movable and reconfigurable phased array of transducers, enabling a swarm of acoustophoretic multimodal interactions.
• The Versatile Distributed Maneuvering with Generalized Formations using Guiding Vector Fields paper presents a unified approach to realize versatile distributed maneuvering with generalized formations, using guiding vector fields and distributed coordination mechanisms.