— We study a path planning problem which arises when multiple robots are used to gather data from stationary devices with wireless communication capabilities. Each device has a g...
Abstract— This paper discusses the design and current capabilities of a new software tool, dVC, capable of simulating planar systems of bodies experiencing unilateral contacts wi...
Stephen Berard, Jeffrey C. Trinkle, Binh Nguyen, B...
Abstract The problem of generating uniform deterministic samples over the rotation group, SO(3), is fundamental to many fields, such as computational structural biology, robotics,...
Anna Yershova, Swati Jain, Steven M. LaValle, Juli...
This paper addresses the pursuit-evasion problem of maintaining surveillance by a pursuer of an evader in a world populated by polygonal obstacles. This requires the pursuer to pl...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Teja Muppirala, Alejandro Sar...
— A new distributed coordination algorithm for multi-vehicle systems is presented in this paper. The algorithm combines a particular choice of navigation function with Voronoi pa...