—It is desirable that colony robots be autonomous and self-sufficient, which requires that they can perform their duties while maintaining enough energy to operate. In previous w...
— This paper presents a new method for reactive collision avoidance for mobile robots in complex and cluttered environments. Our technique is to adapt the “divide and conquer...
To demonstrate the flexibility and portability of both a schema-based software architecture and a message-passing hardware architecture, the two were integrated within a very shor...
Thomas R. Collins, Ronald C. Arkin, Andrew M. Hens...
— Our objective is to find a small set of images that summarize a robot’s visual experience along a path. We present a novel on-line algorithm for this task. This algorithm is...