{"paper":{"title":"SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cs.RO","authors_text":"Fei Qiao, Haohua Que, Haojia Gao, Jiajun Sun, Mingkai Liu, Qian Zhang","submitted_at":"2026-06-28T12:37:20Z","abstract_excerpt":"Massive robot swarms can explore unknown environments quickly, but adding robots eventually stops helping. Doorways and dense traffic create congestion, increasing inter-robot contacts and reducing the value of each additional robot. We study this safety-efficiency tradeoff for ground swarms of tens to hundreds of robots. We present SPACE, Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration. Inspired by ant foraging, SPACE maintains a shared environmental field with an attractive frontier pheromone, a repellent explore pheromone, and a fast robot-density field. Coordination is dece"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2606.29372","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2606.29372/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}