Raina Zakir

Raina Zakir

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6 B-1050, Brussels, Belgium Get in touch: rainazat[at]gmail.com

Research interests: Collective behaviors, Swarm Robotics, Distributed systems on ROS

Research

I am a Ph.D. student at the IRIDIA, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on Artificial Intelligence, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. My study focuses on "Resiliency of collective decision making in robot swarms" under the supervision of Dr. Andreagiovanni Reina and Prof. Marco Dorigo, with a scholarship funded by TRAIL — Walloon Trusted AI Labs — with the ARIAC Project.

Publications

R.Zakir, M.Dorigo, A.Reina. Miscommunication between robots can improve group accuracy in best-of-n decision-making. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024), in press, IEEE, 2024.

R.Zakir, M.Dorigo, M. Salahshour, A.Reina. Heterogeneity Can Enhance the Adaptivity of Robot Swarms to Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS 14987: 112-126 Springer, Cham, 2024.

N. Antonic, R.Zakir, M.Dorigo, A.Reina. Collective robustness of heterogeneous decision-makers against stubborn individuals. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024), 68-77, IFAAMAS, Richland, SC, 2024.

A. Reina, R. Zakir, G. De Masi, E. Ferrante. Cross-inhibition leads to group consensus despite the presence of strongly opinionated minorities and asocial behaviour. Communications Physics 6: 236, 2023.

R. Zakir , M. Dorigo, A. Reina. Robot Swarms Break Decision Deadlocks in Collective Perception through Cross-inhibition. In Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS 13491: 209-221. Springer, Cham, 2022.

G. D. Masi, J. Prasetyo, R. Zakir, N. Mankovskii, E. Ferrante. Robot swarm democracy: the importance of informed individuals against zealots. Swarm Intelligence 15:315–338, 2021.

J. Prasetyo, G. D. Masi, R. Zakir, M. Alkilabi, E. Tuci, E. Ferrante. A bio-inspired spatial defence strategy for collective decision making in self-organized swarms. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), ACM Press, 2021.

Z. Firat, E. Ferrante, R. Zakir , J. Prasetyo, E. Tuci. Group-Size Regulation in Self-organized Aggregation in Robot Swarms. In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), LNCS 12421. Springer, Cham, 2022.