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AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Distributed Method for Evaluating Properties of a Robot Formation
As a robot formation increases in size or explores places where it is difficult for a human operator to interact, autonomous control becomes critical. We propose a distributed aut...
Brent Beer, Ross Alan Mead, Jerry B. Weinberg
ICRA
2010
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
A probabilistic approach to mixed open-loop and closed-loop control, with application to extreme autonomous driving
— We consider the task of accurately controlling a complex system, such as autonomously sliding a car sideways into a parking spot. Although certain regions of this domain are ex...
J. Zico Kolter, Christian Plagemann, David T. Jack...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 18 days ago
Staying Alive: A Docking Station for Autonomous Robot Recharging
—Autonomous mobile robots are constrained in their long-term functionality due to a limited on-board power supply. Typically, rechargeable batteries are utilized that may only pr...
Milo C. Silverman, Dan Nies, Boyoon Jung, Gaurav S...
IROS
2008
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Cooperative navigation using environment compliant robot formations
— This paper reports an autonomous cooperative navigation system for robot formations in realistic scenarios. The formation movement control is based on a virtual structure compo...
Pablo Urcola, L. Riazuelo, M. T. Lazaro, Luis Mont...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
14 years 19 hour ago
Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots
Self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robots can change their individual and collective shape and size to meet operational demands. Since these robots are constructed from a set of a...
Wei-Min Shen, Yimin Lu, Peter M. Will