Orchestration and Programming ENergy-aware and collaborative Swarms With AI-powered Reliable Methods
Digital, Industry & SpaceHORIZON-RIAID: 101093046
EC Contribution
€53,221
Consortium Size
10 orgs
Start Year
2023
▶Summary
Low-power wireless technology tends to be used today for simple monitoring applications, in which raw sensor data is reported periodically to a server for analysis. The ambition of the OpenSwarm project is to trigger the next revolution in these data-driven systems by developing true collaborative and distributed smart nodes, through groundbreaking R&I in three technological pillars: efficient networking and management of smart nodes, collaborative energy-aware Artificial Intelligence (AI), and energy-aware swarm programming. Results are implemented in an open software package called “OpenSwarm”, which is verified in our labs on two 1,000 node testbeds. OpenSwarm is then validated in five real-world proof-of-concept use cases, covering four application domains: Renewable Energy Community (Cities & Community), Supporting Human Workers in Harvesting (Environmental), Ocean Noise Pollution Monitoring (Environmental), Health and Safety in Industrial Production Sites (Industrial/Health), Moving Networks in Trains (Mobility). A comprehensive dissemination, exploitation, and communication plan (including a diverse range of activities related to standardization, educational and outreach, open science, and startup formations) amplifies the expected impacts of OpenSwarm, achieving a step change enabling novel, future energy-aware swarms of collaborative smart nodes with wide range benefits for the environment, industries, and society.
Consortium (10)
🇫🇷 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUEFR
coordinator🇮🇪 ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED COMPANYIE
partner🇵🇹 INGENIARIUS LDAPT
partner🇧🇪 INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUMBE
partner🇧🇪 KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVENBE
partner🇩🇪 SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTDE
partner🇦🇹 SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT OESTERREICHAT
partner🇵🇹 SIEMENS SAPT
partner🇬🇧 THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELDGB
partner🇫🇷 WATTSON ELEMENTSFR
partnerProject Results (91)
Source: CORDIS, the EU research results database.
▶Publications (70)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889025003574
Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Bram Vanderborght, Jeroen Famaey
A comprehensive survey on channel hopping and scheduling enhancements for TSCH networks
Martina Balbi, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne
A Multi-Drone System Proof of Concept for Forestry Applications
André G. Araújo; Carlos A. P. Pizzino; Micael S. Couceiro; Rui P. Rocha
A RIOT Port for the Single-Chip Mote
· 2025
Alexandre Abadie, Koen Zandberg, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic
An Open-Source Multi-Platform SDK for Programming SCuM
· 2025
Alexandre Abadie, Titan Yuan, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic
AuRA: Remote Attestation over EDHOC for Constrained Internet-of-Things Use Cases
ISCC 2025 - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications,· 2025
Song, Y., Fedrecheski, G., Vučinić, M., and Watteyne, T.
Automatic Lighthouse Calibration Using Conics for Indoor Robot Localization
Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Martina Balbi, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic
CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics
Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Genki Miyauchi, Jessica Jayakumar, Mohamed S. Talamali, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Groß, Danny Hughes
Demo: Mari Allows Connecting Large Scale Robot Swarms using TSCH over BLE and Multiple Independent Gateways
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium, 22 September 2025· 2025
Geovane Fedrecheski, Alexandre Abadie, Mališa Vučinić, Said Alvarado-Marin, Thomas Watteyne
Demo: Multi-sensor Lighthouse v2 Decoding Optimized for Low-Power CPU
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Poster and Demo Session, Leuven, Belgium· 2025
Said Alvarado-Marin, Arnaud Taffanel, Marcus Eliasson, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne
Demo: Vega – turning a Toy into a Ready-to-Use Robotic Platform
· 2025
Narmin Elkilani, Baptiste Carbillet, Jean-Paul Fabre, Thomas Watteyne
ELA: Secure, Lightweight, and Zero-Touch Enrollment for IoT Devices
2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)· 2025DOI
Geovane Fedrecheski, Göran Selander, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić
Embedded Artificial Intelligence for IoT Applications Using the MAX78000
Martina Balbi, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne
Energy replenishment strategies for robot swarms
· 2025
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
Energy-aware multi-robot task scheduling using meta-heuristic optimization methods for ambiently-powered robot swarms
Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Michiel Aernouts, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey
ENOCH: ENabling On-body network Contention Handling
Mengyao Liu, Jonathan Oostvogels, Bingwu Fang, Sam Michiels, Haoxiang Ma, Yang Yang, Danny Hughes
Hybrid Multiverse-based Parallel Computing Framework for Task Scheduling in Swarm Robotics
IEEE Computing, Communications and IoT Applications Conference (ComComAp)· 2025
Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, David Scalais, Jeroen Famaey
HyPM: Hybrid Performance Monitoring for Low-Power Wireless Networks
ISCC 2025 - 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Jul 2025, Bologna, Italy.· 2025
Fabian Graf, Esteban Norena Arroyave, Thomas Watteyne, Michael Villnow
Low-power Energy Management Module for Ambiently Powered Robotic Swarms
2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)· 2025DOI
Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari, Parham Haji Ali Mohamadi, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Bram Vanderborght, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey
Management of 6TiSCH Networks Using CORECONF: A Clustering Use Case
Fabian Graf, David Pauli, Michael Villnow, Thomas Watteyne
Minimal-Overlap Centrality for Multi-Gateway Designation in Real-Time TSCH Networks
Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Luís Almeida, Pedro M. D’orey, Pedro M. Santos, Thomas Watteyne
Multi-human multi-robot interaction: cooperation leveraging a robot swarm as a shared resource
German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, 13-15 March 2025· 2025
Genki Miyauchi, Mohammed Salah Talamali, A. Millard, Y. Lopes, Roderich Gross
ODHD: On-Demand Helper Data Generation for Reliable NVM-Free Key Derivation from SRAM PUF
· 2025
Sara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister
On the Benefits of Robot Platooning for Navigating Crowded Environments
Jahir Argote-Gerald, Genki Miyauchi, Paul Trodden, Roderich Groß
Porting A Real-Time Operating System for Embedded IoT Devices to Linux as Part of the OpenSwarm Project
Luiz Sampaio, Kate O'Riordan, Dara O'Sullivan, Brian Coffey, Thomas Watteyne
Pre-Shared Key Authentication with EDHOC: the Security-Performance Tradeoff
Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Rafael Marin-Lopez, Cristina Onete, Clément Papon, Mališa Vučinić
Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints
Talamali, M.S., Miyauchi, G., Watteyne, T., Gross, R., Couceiro, M.S..
Reducing the stability gap for continual learning at the edge with class balancing
Wei Wei, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Tom De Schepper, Kevin Mets
SC-Canopy: A Tiered Network Architecture for Indoor Robot Swarms
· 2025
Mengyao Liu, Luiz Sampaio, Jonathan Oostvogels, Kate O’Riordan, Sam Michiels, Thomas Watteyne, Danny Hughes
Scalable Plug-and-Play Robotic Fabrics Based on Kilobot Modules
Stanley C. Obilikpa, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, John Oyekan, Roderich Groß
Temporal distillation: compressing a policy in space and time
Thomas Avé, Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse, Kevin Mets
Toward Sustainable Mars Exploration: A Perspective on Collaborative Intelligent Systems
Thomas Janssen; Ritesh Kumar Singh; Phil Reiter; Anuj Justus Rajappa; Priyesh Pappinisseri Puluckul; Mohmmadsadegh Mokhtari; Mohammad Hasan Rahmani; Erik Mannens; Jeroen Famaey; Maarten Weyn
Two-Stage Threshold-based Majority Voting Scheme (TS-TMVS) for Robust SRAM PUFs
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· 2025
ara Faour, Malisa Vucinic, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister
UpGate: Low-Power and Secure Over-the-Air Hardware Reconfiguration for Deployed FPGAs
Alexandre Abadie, Alfonso Cortes-Neira, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic
When to Attest? Intra- and Post-Handshake Attestation for IoT Swarms
Yuxuan Song, Muhammad Usama Sardar, Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne
Zephyr and SmartMesh IP - Happy Together
· 2025
Fabian Graf, Michael Villnow, Thomas Watteyne
A comparative study of energy replenishment strategies for robot swarms
Genki Miyauchi; Mohamed S. Talamali; Roderich Gross
A Time Synchronized Multi-Hop Mesh Network with Crystal-Free Nodes
Filip Maksimovic, Austin Patel, David Burnett, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer S.J. Pister
ABL: Leveraging Millimeter Wave Pulses for Low Latency IoT Networking
2024 IEEE Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-Based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT)· 2024DOI
Bingwu Fang, Jonathan Oostvogels, Xinlei Liu, Andrey Belogaev, Sam Michiels, Jeroen Famaey, Danny Hughes
Channel-Dependent Forward Error Correction for IEEE 802.15.4 O-QPSK
Graf, Fabian; Watteyne, Thomas; Maksimovic, Filip; Villnow, Michael
Demo: DotBot, a cm-Scale, Easy-to-Use Micro-Robot for Swarm Research
"Breaking Swarm Stereotypes Workshop"" at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)"· 2024
Alvarado-Marin, Said; Abadie, Alexandre; Maksimovic, Filip; Balbi, Martina; Savić, Trifun; Watteyne, Thomas
EDHOC Is a New Security Handshake Standard: An Overview of Security Analysis
Elsa López Pérez, Göran Selander, John Preuß Mattsson, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić
Enhancing Security for Constrained IoT Devices with Lightweight Remote Attestation
Journée commune au GDR RSD, GPL (GT GLSEC) et SI (GT SSLR) sur la sécurité des piles réseau· 2024
Yuxuan Song, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne
Feature-level fusion in wireless acoustic sensor networks with graph attention networks for classification of domestic activities
2nd Workshop on Data Fusion for Artificial Intelligence, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)· 2024
Wei, Wei; Hutsebaut-Buysse, Matthias; Avé, Thomas; De Schepper, Tom; Mets, Kevin
Let's Share Our Robots! Dynamically Controlling a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Human Operators
ICRA 2024 Breaking Swarm Stereotypes workshop· 2024
Genki Miyauchi, Alan G. Millard, Yuri K. Lopes, Roderich Gross
Lighthouse Localization of Miniature Wireless Robots
Said Alvarado-Marin; Cristobal Huidobro-Marin; Martina Balbi; Trifun Savić; Thomas Watteyne; Filip Maksimovic
Low-latency Symbol-Synchronous Communication for Multi-hop Sensor Networks
2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit)· 2024DOI
Xinlei Liu, Andrey Belogaev, Jonathan Oostvogels, Bingwu Fang, Danny Hughes, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey
Monitoring performance metrics in low-power wireless systems
Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Michael Villnow
On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of UAVs with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2024· 2024
Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross
Online Adaptation of Compressed Models by Pre-Training and Task-Relevant Pruning
32nd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning· 2024
Avé, T., Hutsebaut-Buysse, M., Wei, W., & Mets, K.
Performance Comparison of EDHOC and DTLS 1.3 in Internet-of-Things Environments
Fedrecheski, Geovane; Vučinić, Mališa; Watteyne, Thomas
Policy Compression for Intelligent Continuous Control on Low-Power Edge Devices
Thomas Avé, Tom De Schepper, Kevin Mets
Pre-Shared Key Authentication in Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE
2024 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS)· 2024DOI
Elsa Lopez Perez, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić
Qrkey: Simply and Securely Controlling Swarm Robots
Alexandre Abadie, Mališa Vučinić, Diego Badillo, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Thomas Watteyne
RobOTAP: Over-the-Air Programming of Robotic Swarms
2024 IEEE Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-Based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT)· 2024DOI
Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne
Running SmartMesh on the MAX32655 with MicroPython
Sampaio, Luiz; O'Riordan, Kate; Coffey, Brian; Doherty, Lance; Watteyne, Thomas
Secure Communication for the IoT: EDHOC and (Group) OSCORE Protocols
Rikard Höglund, Marco Tiloca, Göran Selander, John Preuß Mattsson, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne
Single-Chip Motes and SRAM PUF: Feasibility Study
2024 IEEE Workshop on Crystal-Free/-Less Radio and System-Based Research for IoT (CrystalFreeIoT)· 2024DOI
Sara Faour, Blaz Korecic, Mališa Vučinić, Filip Maksimovic, David C. Burnett, Paul Muhlethaler, Thomas Watteyne
The Embedded Orchestra
2024 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2024)· 2024
Romain Facq; Charles Thonier; Trifun Savic; Bertrand Marcon, Thomas Watteyne
TMVS: Threshold-based Majority Voting Scheme for Robust SRAM PUFs
Sara Faour, Mališa Vučinić, Filip Maksimovic, David C. Burnett, Paul Muhlethaler, Thomas Watteyne, Kristofer Pister
Twofer: Ambiguous Transmissions for Low-Latency Sensor Networks Facing Noise, Privacy and Loss
2024 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)· 2024DOI
Jonathan Oostvogels, Sam Michiels, Danny Hughes
WELOC: Localizing Equipment in Marinas Using Ultrasound
Trifun Savić, Keoma Brun-Laguna, Thomas Watteyne
Blip: Identifying Boats in a Smart Marina Environment
2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)· 2023DOI
Savić, Trifun; Brun-Laguna, Keoma; Watteyne, Thomas
Demo FreeBot, a Battery-Free Swarm Robotics Platform
Mengyao Liu; Fan Yang; Sam Michiels; Tom Van Eyck; Danny Hughes; Said Alvarado-Marin; Filip Maksimovic; Thomas Watteyne
Hands-on Evaluation of Kinéis Satellite IoT Technology
IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)· 2023
Raul de la Fuente, Thomas Watteyne.
Poster Abstract: Hands-on Evaluation of Kinéis Satellite IoT Technology
Raúl De La Fuente; Thomas Watteyne
Sharing the control of robot swarms among multiple human operators: A user study
Genki Miyauchi; Yuri Kaszubowski Lopes; Roderich Groß
Bit- and Symbol-Error Patterns in IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH Mode
29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
Fabian Graf, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic, Michael Villnow
CaIN: Low Power and Low Latency VHF Mesh Networking
EWSN 2024, 10-13 December 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Mengyao Liu, Bingwu Fang, Jonathan Oostvogels, Sam Michiels, Andrei Belogaev, Xinlei Liu, Jeroen Famaey
Standards-based Remote Attestation for Internet-of-Things Swarms
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Yuxuan Song, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne
▶Deliverables (20)
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Study on the accuracy vs overhead trade-offs of energy-aware scheduling methods for swarm objectives
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▶Other Results (1)
Periodic Reporting for period 2 - OpenSwarm (Orchestration and Programming ENergy-aware and collaborative Swarms With AI-powered Reliable Methods)