Ben Sprenger

Ben Sprenger

Autonomous vehicles @ Kodiak AI šŸš› MSc in Robotics @ ETH ZĆ¼rich šŸ¤– Interested in robotics, reinforcement learning, control theory and optimization.

Publications

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SwarmGPT: Combining Large Language Models with Safe Motion Planning for Drone Swarm Choreography

Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (also presented at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), 2025

SwarmGPT provides a blueprint for how foundation-model style reasoning (similar to vision-language-action models) can be used safely in robotics by pairing a language interface with a smart safety filter that guarantees feasible, safe trajectories. It lets people describe drone swarm choreographies in plain language while the system handles the low-level motion and safety constraints behind the scenes.

Recommended citation: M. Schuck, D. O. Dahanaggamaarachchi, B. Sprenger, V. Vyas, S. Zhou, and A. P. Schoellig, ā€œSwarmgpt: Combining large language models with safe motion planning for drone swarm choreography,ā€ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.
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