Publications

Peer-reviewed articles in journals, series and proceedings

Stefanec, M., Herlitz, A., Reisinger, D., Diebold, J., Hofstadler, D. N., Reichenpfader, A., ... & Schmickl, T. (2026, May). Closing the Loop Between BEECLUST and Honeybee Thermotaxis. In International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (pp. 69-81). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Janota, J., Blaha, J., Stefanec, M., Rouček, T., Ulrich, J., Fedotoff, L. A., ... & Krajník, T. (2025). Non-invasive honeybee colony monitoring via robotic mapping of combs in observation hives. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 239, 111031.

Wang, H., Zahmatkesh, M., Stefanec, M., Turgut, A. E., Ulrich, J., Krajnik, T., & Arvin, F. (2025, August). Towards an Embodied Biohybrid Robotic Platform for Interaction with Honeybees. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) (pp. 322-327). IEEE.

Blaha, J., Stefanec, M., Janota, J., Hofstadler, D. N., Rouček, T., Ulrich, J., ... & Krajník, T. (2025). On the movement of the honeybee queen in the hive. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 20708.

Rekabi-Bana, F., Saadat, M., Stefanec, M., Vintr, T., Pan, H., Zahmatkesh, M., ... & Arvin, F. (2025). Robust Vibration Attenuation for Autonomous Robotic Observation Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 59(17), 251-256.

Ulrich, J., Stefanec, M., Rekabi-Bana, F., Fedotoff, L. A., Rouček, T., Gündeğer, B. Y., ... & Krajník, T. (2024). Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots. Science Robotics, 9(95).

Barmak, R., Hofstadler, D. N., Stefanec, M., Piotet, L., Cherfan, R., Schmickl, T., ... & Mills, R. (2024). Biohybrid superorganisms—on the design of a robotic system for thermal interactions with honeybee colonies. IEEE Access.

Barmak, R. & Stefanec, M., Hofstadler, D. N., Piotet, L., Schönwetter-Fuchs-Schistek, S., Mondada, F., Schmickl, T. & Mills, R. (2023). A robotic honeycomb for interaction with a honeybee colony. Science Robotics, 8(76).

Rekabi-Bana, F., Stefanec, M., Ulrich, J., Keyvan, E. E., Roucek, T., Broughton, G., Gündeger, B., Sahin, O., Turgut, A., Sahin, E., Krajnık, T., Schmickl, T. & Arvin, F. (2023). Mechatronics designs for multi robots-insect swarms interactions. In IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics.

Stefanec, M. & Schmickl T. (2022). PPS3D: A 3D Variant of the Primordial Particle System. In ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. MIT press.

Stefanec, M., Hofstadler, D.N., Krajník, T., Turgut, A.E., Alemdar, H., Lennox, B., Şahin, E., Arvin, F. & Schmickl, T. (2022). A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards “Ecosystem Hacking” With Honeybees. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9.

Stefanec, M., Oberreiter, H., Becher, M. A., Haase, G., & Schmickl, T. (2021). Effects of Sinusoidal Vibrations on the Motion Response of Honeybees. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 318.

Schmickl, T., Szopek, M., Mondada, F., Mills, R., Stefanec, M., Hofstadler, D. N., Laszic, D., Barmak, R., Bonnet, F., & Zahadat, P. (2021). Social integrating robots suggest mitigation strategies for ecosystem decay. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9.

Schmickl, T., Stefanec, M., Hofstadler, D.N., Krajník, T., Turgut, A.E. & Arvin, F. (2021). The Queen and her Robotic Court: A Minimally-Invasive Form of Ecosystem Hacking. Conference: International Science Fiction Prototyping Conference (SciFi-It' 2021).

Ilgün, A., Angelov, K., Stefanec, M., Schönwetter-Fuchs, S., Stokanic, V., Vollmann, J., Hofstadler, D.N., Kärcher, M.H., Mellmann, H., Taliaronak, V., Kviesis, A., Komasilovs, V., Becher, M. A., Szopek, M., Dormagen, D.M., Barmak, R., Bayraktarov, E., Broisin, M., Thenius, R., Mills, R., Campo, A., Zacepins, A., Sergey, P., Deneubourg, J.L., Mondada, F., Hafner, V.V. & Schmickl, T. (2021). Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects. In ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.

Vogrin, M., Stefanec, M., & Schmickl, T. (2020). Social Distancing in Robot Swarms: Modulating Exploitation and Exploration Without Signal Exchange. In 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 2233-2240). IEEE.

Schmickl, T., Szopek, M., Radspieler, G., Bodi, M., Schönwetter-Fuchs, S., Salem, Z., Stefanec, M., Thenius, R., Hahshold, S. (2020). Virtual Animal Studies/Hybrid Societies. In Handbuch Virtualität (pp. 629-651). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Stefanec, M., Szopek, M., Schmickl, T., & Mills, R. (2017). Governing the swarm: Controlling a bio-hybrid society of bees & robots with computational feedback loops. In 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Szopek, M., Stefanec, M., Bodi, M., Radspieler, G., & Schmickl, T. (2017). A cellular model of swarm intelligence in bees and robots. In 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies (p. 11). European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).

Stefanec, M., Szopek, M., Thenius, R., Radspieler, G., & Schmickl, T. (2017). Robotic oligarchy: How a few members can control their whole society by doing almost nothing. In 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-Inspired Information and Communications Technologies (p. 117). European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).

Schmickl, T., Stefanec, M., & Crailsheim, K. (2016). How a life-like system emerges from a simple particle motion law. Scientific reports, 6(1), 1-15.

Other publications

Szopek, M., Thenius, R., Stefanec, M., Hofstadler, D., Varughese, J., Vogrin, M., Radspieler, G. and Schmickl, T., 2021. Autonome Roboterschwärme als Stabilisatoren gefährdeter Ökosysteme. Navigationen-Zeitschrift für Medien-und Kulturwissenschaften, 21(1), pp.149-180.

Schmickl, T., Szopek, M., Radspieler, G., Bodi, M., Schönwetter-Fuchs, S., Salem, Z., Stefanec, M., Thenius, R. and Hahshold, S., 2020. Virtual Animal Studies/Hybrid Societies. In Handbuch Virtualität (pp. 629-651). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Stefanec, M. (2019) Swarm-intelligence by pattern formation and collective decision making in simple interaction systems (Master thesis, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz).

Schmickl, T., & Stefanec, M. (2019). A Primordial Particle System in three dimensions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09293.

Schmickl, T., & Stefanec, M. (2015). Population Dynamics of Self-Replicating Cell-like Structures Emerging from Chaos. arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04478.

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