Abstract— The problem of an effective coordination of multiple autonomous robots is one of the most important tasks of the modern robotics. In turn, it is well known that the lea...
In the search for the primary roots of autonomy (a pivotal concept in Varela's comprehensive understanding of living beings), the theory of autopoiesis provided an explicit cr...
The ability to detect and recognize individuals is essential for an autonomous robot interacting with humans even if computational resources are usually rather limited. In general ...
Michael Grabner, Helmut Grabner, Joachim Pehserl, ...
This paper presents a distributed multi-robot system designed to solve a team-based search and destroy task. The project was divided into two phases. The initial phase was used to...
J. T. McClain, Bradley J. Wimpey, D. H. Barnhard, ...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...