Introducing myself

I am the research group leader of the CZS Junior Research Group for Robot Swarm Learning at the University of Konstanz and a ZENiT fellow at the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz.

My research interest include swarm robotics, automatic modular design, reinforcement learning for multi-robot systems and imitation learning.

News and Highlights

Paper accepted at SAB 2026

Our paper "Density-Driven Emergent Division of Labor in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Kaiser) was accepted at the 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2026) in Berlin.

Paper accepted at GECCO 2026

Our paper "The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser) was accepted at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2026).

Three papers accepted at ANTS 2026

I co-authored three papers accepted at the 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) in Darmstadt: "On the Cost of Evolving Task Specialization in Multi-Robot Systems" (with Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, and Tanja Katharina Kaiser); "How Swarms Differ: Challenges in Collective Behaviour Comparison" (with André Fialho Jesus); and "Minimizing Uncertainty as a Principle for Task Allocation in Robot Swarms" (with Yannick Wesseloh, Paolo Leopardi, and Heiko Hamann).

Best paper award at ICRA 2024

Our paper "Do We Run Large-scale Multi-robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-phase Performance in System Size Scaling" won the best paper award in the category multi-robot systems at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024).

Nexus funding from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung

I have obtained a Nexus grant from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung for my project "Explainable Swarm Programming through Imitation Learning". With this grant, I will be able to start as a research group leader at the University of Konstanz.

ZENiT Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz

I have been selected as a ZENiT fellow in the first cohort of the ZENiT program at the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz.

Contact

Jonas Kuckling
jonas.kuckling@uni-konstanz.de

Universität Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10
78464 Konstanz, Germany

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