Congratulations Dr. Hian Lee Kwa – Bouffanais' Research Lab

Congratulations to Hian Lee Kwa, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on 1 September 2022. His thesis, “The Exploration and Exploitation Dynamics of Target Tracking Swarms”, supervised by Roland Bouffanais, shows that a swarm of robots can find and track a target that moves faster than any individual robot, and that this ultimately comes down to how the swarm balances collective exploration and exploitation.

[PhD thesis (PDF)]

Publications with Hian Lee Kwa

Journal articles

H. L. Kwa, J. Philippot & R. Bouffanais, “Effect of Swarm Density on Collective Tracking Performance”, Swarm Intelligence, 17, 253–281 (2023). [DOI]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit, N. Horsevad, J. Philippot, M. Savari & R. Bouffanais, “Adaptivity: A Path Towards General Swarm Intelligence?”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, 1163185 (2023). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, V. Babineau, J. Philippot & R. Bouffanais, “Adapting the Exploration-Exploitation Balance in Heterogeneous Swarms: Tracking Evasive Targets”, Artificial Life, 29, 1–16 (2022). [DOI] [PDF]
N. Horsevad, H. L. Kwa & R. Bouffanais, “Beyond Bio-Inspired Robotics: How Multi-Robot Systems Can Support Research on Collective Animal Behavior”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9, 865414 (2022). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Balancing Collective Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Agent and Multi-Robot Systems: A Review”, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 771520 (2022). [DOI] [PDF]

Conference papers

H. L. Kwa, J. Philippot & R. Bouffanais, “The Impact of Agent Density and Environmental Factors on Target Tracking Swarms”, Proceedings of ALIFE 2023, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 88–96, MIT Press (2023). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa & R. Bouffanais, “The Effect of Network Connectivity on Exploration and Exploitation During Decentralized Collective Learning”, 4th International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB’22), online (2022). [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Tracking Multiple Fast Targets With Swarms: Interplay Between Social Interaction and Agent Memory”, Proceedings of ALIFE 2021, online, pp. 62–71, MIT Press (2021). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Tailoring Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Agent Systems with Short-Term Memory and Limited Social Interaction”, 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB’21), online (2021). [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, G. Tokić, R. Bouffanais & D. K. P. Yue, “Heterogeneous Swarms for Maritime Dynamic Target Search and Tracking”, IEEE/MTS Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast, online, pp. 1–8 (2020). [DOI] [PDF]
H. L. Kwa, J. L. Kit & R. Bouffanais, “Optimal Swarm Strategy for Dynamic Target Search and Tracking”, AAMAS 2020, 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 672–680 (2020). [DOI] [PDF]