Zealots Attack and the Revenge of the Commons: Quality vs Quantity in the Best-of-n

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Review of Collective Decision Making in Swarm Robotics

“…In the Voter model, an individual robot adopts the opinion of a randomly selected neighbour within the communication distance [21]. On the other hand, with the Majority rule, an individual robot changes its opinion to the opinion held by the majority of its group neighbours, counting its opinion with the group opinions [22], [23].…”

Enhancing Robustness of Swarm Robotics Systems in a Perceptual Discrimination Task

“…In this methodology, designers meticulously craft individual mechanisms that drive the collective response to the problem at hand. The literature has demonstrated the effectiveness of the hand-coded approach, especially when adopting the Voter model principles, where robots modify their opinions based on selecting a random neighbour [6], [7], or the majority rule, where the opinion aligns with the opinion that supported by the majority of a group of neighbours [8], [9]. However, the design of hand-coded controls often relies on strong assumptions made by designers regarding how the problem should be addressed.…”