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Swarm Workshop 2025

OpenSwarm co-organises the Swarm Workshop on 26-27 November 2025 The Swarm Workshop is a 2-days event taking place in Brussels on 26-27 November 2025. Co-organised

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IEEE Access 2025 Article

Pre-Shared Key Authentication with EDHOC: The Security-Performance Tradeoff. Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Rafael Marin-Lopez, Cristina Onete, Mališa Vučinić. IEEE Access, to appear in 2025.

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npj Robotics 2025 Article

GenSwarm: Scalable Multi-Robot Code-Policy Generation and Deployment via Language mModels. Wenkang Ji, Huaben Chen, Mingyang Chen, Guobin Zhu, Lufeng Xu, Roderich Gross, Rui Zhou, Ming Cao, Shiyu Zhao. npj Robotics, to appear in 2025.​

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IFIP PEMWN Paper

Experimental Investigation of Bit Errors in Coexisting BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 Channels. Diego Badillo-San-Juan, Alfonso Cortés, Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IFIP International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN), Paris, France, 25-27 November 2025

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IEEE MRS Paper

Design for One, Deploy for Many: Navigating Tree Mazes with Multiple Agents. Jahir Argote-Gerald, Genki Miyauchi, Julian Rau, Paul Trodden, Roderich Groß. IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), Singapore, 4-5 December 2025,

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IEEE ISC 2025 Paper

ODHD: On-Demand Helper Data Generation for Reliable NVM-Free Key Derivation from SRAM PUF. Sara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister. IEEE International Conference on Information Security And Cryptology (ISC), Ankara, Türkiye, 22–23 October 2025.

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OpenSwarm Roadshow at UTFPR 2025

OpenSwarm at Federal Technological University, Paraná, Brazil Inria researcher Geovane Fedrecheski presented the DotBot and the OpenSwarm Testbed at Federal Technological University, Paraná, in Brazil.

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Machine Learning Article 2025

Temporal Distillation: Compressing a Policy in Space and Time. Thomas Avé, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Kevin Mets. Machine Learning, vo. 114, 15 October 2025.

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OpenSwarm Roadshow at USP 2025

OpenSwarm at University of São Paulo, Brazil Inria researcher Geovane Fedrecheski presented the DotBot and the OpenSwarm Testbed at University of São Paulo (USP), in

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CrystalFreeIoT 2025 Paper

An Open-Source Multi-Platform SDK for Programming SCuM. Alexandre Abadie, Titan Yuan, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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CrystalFreeIoT 2025 Paper

A RIOT Port for the Single-Chip Mote. Alexandre Abadie, Koen Zandberg, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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EWSN 2025 Demo (graf25zephyr)

Demo: Zephyr and SmartMesh IP: Happy Together. Fabian Graf, Michael Villnow, Thomas Watteyne. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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CrystalFreeIoT 2025 Paper (liu24sccanopy)

SC-Canopy: A Tiered Network Architecture for Indoor Robot Swarms. Mengyao Liu, Luiz Sampaio, Jonathan Oostvogels, Kate O’Riordan, Sam Michiels, Thomas Watteyne, Danny Hughes. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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EWSN 2025 Demo (alvarado25multi)

Demo: Multi-sensor Lighthouse v2 Decoding Optimized for Low-Power CPU. Said Alvarado-Marin, Arnaud Taffanel, Marcus Eliasson, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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EWSN 2025 Demo (fedrecheski25mari)

Demo: Mari Allows Connecting Large Scale Robot Swarms using TSCH over BLE and Multiple Independent Gateways. Geovane Fedrecheski, Alexandre Abadie, Mališa Vučinić, Said Alvarado-Marin, Thomas Watteyne. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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CrystalFreeIoT 2025 Paper (faour25two)

Two-Stage Threshold-based Majority Voting Scheme (TMVS) for Robust SRAM PUFs. Sara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister. Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT), International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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EWSN 2025 Demo (elkilani25vega)

Demo: Vega – turning a Toy into a Ready-to-Use Robotic Platform. Narmin Elkilani, Baptiste Carbillet, Jean-Paul Fabre, Thomas Watteyne. International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025.

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Presentation at IEEE CSCN!

On 16-Sep-2026, Yuxuan SONG (INRIA) presented the paper “When to Attest? Intra- and Post-Handshake Attestation for IoT Swarms. she wrote together with Muhammad Usama Sardar,

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IEEE CSCN 2025 Paper (song25attest)

When to Attest? Intra- and Post-Handshake Attestation for IoT Swarms. Yuxuan Song, Muhammad Usama Sardar, Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN). Bologna, Italy. 15–17 September 2025.

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IETF 123

As part of the standardization efforts of the OpenSwarm consortium, Inria researchers Elsa Lopez Perez, Geovane Fedrecheski, Malisa Vucinic, and Yuxuan Song attended the IETF-123 meeting in Madrid, Spain. The meeting included an intense and fun weekend hackathon, presentations on IETF draft updates, and several side meetings.

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IEEE ISCC 2025 Paper (graf25hypm)

Fabian Graf, Esteban Norena Arroyave, Thomas Watteyne, Michael Villnow, HyPM: Hybrid Performance Monitoring for Low-Power Wireless Networks, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy, 2-5 July 2025.

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IEEE 2025 ISCC Paper (song25aura)

Yuxuan Song, Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne, AuRA: Remote Attestation over EDHOC for Constrained Internet-of-Things Use Cases, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy, 2-5 July 2025.

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Automatica Trade Fair

Automatica 2025, one of the world’s premier trade fairs for intelligent automation and robotics, features Ingeniarius and other OpenSwarm partners.. June 24-27, Munich.

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Press Release

The Least Confident Delivery Drone Gets the Job – press release by the Technical University of Darmstadt

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EuCNC 2024 Paper (liu24low)

Low-latency Symbol-Synchronous Communication for Multi-hop Sensor Networks. Xinlei Liu, Andrey Belogaev, Jonathan Oostvogels, Bingwu Fang, Danny Hughes, Maarten Weyn. European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Antwerp, Belgium, 3-6 June 2024.

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IEEE AAMAS 2025 Paper (talamali25ready)

Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Thomas Watteyne, Micael S. Couceiro, Roderich Gross, Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints, 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025), Detroit, Michigan, USA, 19–23 May 2025.

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ICRA 2025 Paper (liu25capbot)

Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Genki Miyauchi, Jessica Jayakumar, Mohamed S. Talamali, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross, Danny Hughes, CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics, accepted at ICRA’25, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 19-23, 2025.

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ICRA 2025 Paper (alvaradomarin25lighthouse)

Said Alvarado-Marin, Cristobal Huidobro-Marin, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. Ligthhouse Localization of Miniature Wireless Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), conference version of the RAL article, Atlanta USA, 19–23 May, 2025.

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IEEE RTAS 2025 Paper (gutierrezgaitan25minimal)

Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Luís Almeida, Pedro M. d’Orey, Pedro M. Santos, Thomas Watteyne, Journal-First: Minimal-Overlap Centrality for Multi-Gateway Designation in Real-Time TSCH Networks, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Irvine, CA, USA, 6-9 May 2025.

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smart buoy

Managing underwater noise pollution: Experiments with Smart Buoys!

The OpenSwarm project develops an automated system that monitors and counts boats in a protected marine area (PMA), and tracks their speed to help manage underwater noise pollution. […] We are conducting a comprehensive series of experiments in the Etang de Thau in the South of France. We use buoys equipped with hydrophones. […]

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IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2025 Paper (fedrecheski25ela)

Geovane Fedrecheski, Göran Selander, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić, ELA: Secure, Lightweight, and Zero-Touch Enrollment for IoT Devices, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (IEEE DCOSS-IoT), Lucca, Italy, 9-11 June 2025.

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Visit and talk at HKUST-GZ

Researcher Geovane Fedrecheski (Inria) visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, campus of Guangzhou. He presented blink, the networking solution being developed for the connection of the OpenSwarm 1,000 DotBots testbed. The opportunity expanded the reach of the technology developed by the OpenSwarm consortium, and was fruitful to cross-pollinate ideas, making sure we continue tuned with related global teams working on similar problem spaces.

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German Robotics Conference

German Robotics Conference

OpenSwarm researchers Genki Miyauchi (University of Sheffield) and Roderich Groß (University of Sheffield/TU Darmstadt) were in Nuremburg, Germany, to participate in the 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC) organized by the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG).

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ACM MECC 2025 Paper (sampaio25porting)

Luiz Sampaio, Kate O’Riordan, Dara O’Sullivan, Brian Coffey, Thomas Watteyne, Porting A Real-Time Operating System for Embedded IoT Devices to Linux as Part of the OpenSwarm Project. 2nd International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum (MECC 2025), Rotterdam, NL, 31st March 2025.

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IETF photo

IETF 122

OpenSwarm researchers, Geovane Fedrecheski, Yuxuan Song and Elsa Lopez were in Bangkok, Thailand to participate in IETF 122, one of the three annual events organized by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF is the standardization organization behind today’s Internet.

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IEEE PerCom 2025 Paper (liu25enoch)

Mengyao Liu, Jonathan Oostvogels, Bingwu Fang, Sam Michiels, Haoxiang Ma, Yang Yang, Danny Hughes, ENOCH: ENabling On-body network Contention Handling, accepted at the 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025), Washington DC, USA, March 17 – 21, 2025.

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GRC 2025 Paper (miyauchi25human)

Genki Miyauchi, Mohamed S. Talamali, Alan Millard, Yuri Kaszubowski Lopes, Roderich Gross
Multi-Human Multi-Robot Interaction: Cooperation Leveraging a Robot Swarm as a Shared Resource, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, March 13-15, 2025.

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CapBot swarm

GRC 2025 Paper (miyauchi25energy)

Genki Miyauchi, Mohamed S. Talamali, Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Jessica Jayakumar, Alexandre Abadie, Geovane Fedrecheski, Martina Balbi, Said Alvarado-Marin, Felix Matzdorf, Julian Rau, Danny Hughes, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross, Energy Replenishment Strategies for Robot Swarms, German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, March 13-15, 2025.

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IEEE ICIN 2025 Paper (abadie25upgate)

UpGate: Low-Power and Secure Over-the-Air Hardware Reconfiguration for Deployed FPGAs. Alexandre Abadie, Alfonso Cortes, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IEEE Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), Paris, France, 11-14 March 2025.

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Said Alvarado-Marin at FOSDEM

FOSDEM talk

Said Alvarado-Marin, Repurposing Valve’s SteamVR 2.0 Technology to Develop an Open-Source, Low-Cost Motion Capture System for Robotics, Brussels, Belgium, February 1-2 2025.

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Battery-free robot tutorial

Check out the video of Prof. Danny Hughes (KU Leuven) giving a tutorial on battery-free robots at the Hands-on AI and Mobile Systems Winterschool in Como, Italy.

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CapBot Video

This video shows the CapBot platform as submitted to the ICRA 2025 technical paper track and used in the associated ICRA 2025 tutorial submission.

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ESANN 2025 Paper (wei25reducing)

Wei Wei, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Tom De Schepper, Kevin Mets, Reducing the stability gap for continual learning at the edge with class balancing, ESANN25, Bruges, Belgium, April 23-25, 2025.

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Team KU Leuven and Darmstadt University

Autonomous Navigation and Charging!

Last week, a meet-up was organised between the teams of Prof. Danny Hughes (KU Leuven) and Prof Roderich Gross (U of Sheffield/Darmstadt) as part of the OpenSwarm project. Together, they worked on connecting the DotBot to its virtual machine and zone-based localisation system. Check out the video showcasing the successful autonomous navigation to the drive-in charging dock!

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ANTS 2024 Paper (talamali24ondemand)

On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of UAVs with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage. Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross. Late-breaking result abstract at ANTS 2024, the 14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, October 9-11, 2024. Konstanz, Germany

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ACM EWSN 2024 Paper (liu24cain)

CaIN: Low Power and Low Latency VHF Mesh Networking, Mengyao Liu, Bingwu Fang, Jonathan Oostvogels, Sam Michiels, Andrei Belogaev, Xinlei Liu, Jeroen Famaey, EWSN 2024, 10-13 December 2024 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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DotBot

SwarmIT demo

This demo presents SwarmIT, a software designed to turn a collection of DotBots into a swarm testbed.

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Turtle-Bot3 Burger setup equipped with EMM and solar panel

IEEE HONET 2024 paper (mokhtari24lowpower)

Low-power Energy Management Module for Ambiently Powered Robotic Swarms. Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey, IEEE HONET 2024, 3-5 December 2024 Doha, Qatar.

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Best Paper Award

IEEE HONET 2024 Best Paper Award!

Best Paper Award, Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh,
Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey, Track: Robotics, Paper entitled: Low-power Energy Management Module for Ambiently Powered Robotic Swarms, IEEE HONET 2024, 3-5 December 2024, Doha, Qatar

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Best Paper Award

IEEE SmartIoT 2024 Best Paper Award!

Best Paper Award presented to Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow for the paper titled Channel-Dependant Forward Error Correction for IEEE 802.15.4 O-QPSK
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, November 14-16, 2024 Shenzhen, China

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IEEE SmartIoT 2024 paper (graf24channel)

Channel-Dependent Forward Error Correction for IEEE 802.15.4 O-QPSK. Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow. IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT) 14-16, November 2024, Shenzhen, China.

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IEEE IECON 2024 paper (sampaio24running)

Running SmartMesh on the MAX32655 with MicroPython. Luiz Sampaio, Kate O’Riordan, Dara O’Sullivan, Brian Coffey, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne. Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Chicago, IL, USA, 3-6 November 2024.

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José Quevedo

Interview with José Quevedo

A new episod in the series of short interviews with the scientific lead of each consortium member. Find out more about who they are, what is their role in the project and what is their vision for the use of the technology developed in the OpenSwarm project.

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DAFUSAI 2024 paper (wei24feature)

Feature-level fusion in wireless acoustic sensor networks with graph attention networks for classification of domestic activities
Wei Wei, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Thomas Avé, Tom De Schepper, Kevin Mets. 2nd Workshop on Data Fusion for Artificial Intelligence (DAFUSAI)
October 19th, 2024 at ECAI, Santiago de Compostela.

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ESANN 2024 paper (ave24online)

Online Adaptation of Compressed Models by Pre-Training and Task-Relevant Pruning. Thomas Avé, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Wei Wei, Kevin Mets, The 32th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 9-11 October 2024

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GDR RSD Day paper (song24enhancing)

Enhancing Security for Constrained IoT Devices with Lightweight Remote Attestation. Yuxuan Song, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne. Common Day at GDR RSD, GPL (GT GL_Sec) and SI (GT SSLR) on network stack security, Orléans France, 30 September 2024

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IEEE IOTSMS 2024 paper (lopezperez24preshared)

Pre-shared key authentication in Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE. Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić. IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), Malmo, Sweden, 2-5 September 2024.

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IEEE ISCC 2024 paper (graf24bit)

Bit- and Symbol-Error Patterns of the IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH Mode. Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, France, 26-29 June 2024.

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IEEE ISCC 2024 paper (faour24tmvs)

TMVS: Threshold-based Majority Voting Scheme for Robust SRAM PUFs. Sara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Filip Maksimovic, David C. Burnett, Paul Muhlethaler, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Paris, 26-29 June 2024.

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Hackathon on Lightweight IoT Security

Hackathon on Lightweight IoT Security

We are delighted to announce that Said Alvarado-Marin got the best demo award at the ICRA 2024 workshop on breaking swarm stereotypes in Yokohoma, Japan on 17 May 2024 for his demo about the DotBot..

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Said Alvarado Marin

IEEE ICRA Best Demo Award!

We are delighted to announce that Said Alvarado-Marin got the best demo award at the ICRA 2024 workshop on breaking swarm stereotypes in Yokohoma, Japan on 17 May 2024 for his demo about the DotBot..

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IEEE NetRobiCS 2024 paper (abadie24qrkey)

Qrkey: Simply and Securely Controlling Swarm Robots. Alexandre Abadie, Malisa Vucinic, Diego Badillo, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS), Vancouver, Canada, 20 May, 2024.

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Genki Miyauchi

ICRA 2024 poster 1/2

“Towards Decentralised Formation of Minimal-Length Networks Using Swarms of Robots”, poster presented by Genki Miyauchi, at the Late Breaking Results Poster Session at ICRA 2024.

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ICRA 2024 Poster (miyauchi24share)

“Let’s Share Our Robots! Dynamically Controlling a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Human Operators” , poster presented by Genki Miyauchi, at the Breaking Swarm Stereotypes workshop at ICRA 2024.

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IEEE ICRA 2024 Demo (alvarado24dotbot)

Demo: DotBot, a cm-Scale, Easy-to-Use Micro-Robot for Swarm Research. Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Filip Maksimovic, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne. Workshop on Breaking Swarm Stereotypes, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 17 May 2024.

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