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== Goals and applications ==

Miniaturization and cost are key factors in swarm robotics. These are the constraints in building large groups of robots; therefore the simplicity of the individual team member is emphasized. This motivates a swarm-intelligent approach to achieve meaningful behavior at swarm-level, instead of the individual level. <br />Much research has been directed at this goal of simplicity at the individual robot level. {{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} Being able to use actual hardware in research of Swarm Robotics rather than simulations allows researchers to encounter and resolve many more issues and broaden the scope of Swarm Research. Thus, development of simple robots for Swarm intelligence research is a very important aspect of the field. The goals include keeping the cost of individual robots low to allow [[scalability]], making each robot less demanding of resources and more energy efficient.

Compared with individual robots, a swarm can commonly decompose its given missions to their subtasks;<ref name="ijrnc">{{cite journal |last1=Hu |first1=J. |last2=Bhowmick |first2=P. |last3=Lanzon |first3=A. |title=Two-layer distributed formation-containment control strategy for linear swarm systems: Algorithm and experiments |journal=International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control |date=2020 |volume=30 |issue=16 |pages=6433–6453 |doi=10.1002/rnc.5105 |doi-access=free }}</ref> a swarm is more robust to partial failure and is more flexible with regard to different missions.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yuSrDwAAQBAJ |title=Autonomous Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems: Motion-Planning, Communication, and Swarming|first1=E.|last1=Kagan|first2=N.|last2=Shvalb|first3=I.|last3=Gal|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=2019|isbn=9781119212867}}</ref>