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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Social Potentials for Scalable Multi-Robot Formations
Potential function approaches to robot navigation provide an elegant paradigm for expressing multiple constraints and goals in mobile robot navigation problems 9]. As an example, ...
Tucker R. Balch, Maria Hybinette
AROBOTS
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Visual Navigation in Natural Environments: From Range and Color Data to a Landmark-Based Model
This paper concerns the exploration of a natural environment by a mobile robot equipped with both a video color camera and a stereo-vision system. We focus on the interest of such ...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Carlos Parra, Michel Devy
ICRA
2003
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
Optimal navigation and object finding without geometric maps or localization
In this paper we present a dynamic data structure, useful for robot navigation in an unknown, simplyconnected planar environment. The guiding philosophy in this work is to avoid t...
Benjamín Tovar, Steven M. LaValle, Rafael M...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
77views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-constrained Modular Robots
— We describe a novel shape formation algorithm for ensembles of 2-dimensional lattice-arrayed modular robots, based on the manipulation of regularly shaped voids within the latt...
Michael DeRosa, Seth Copen Goldstein, Peter Lee, J...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
156views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 3 months ago
TopBot: automated network topology detection with a mobile robot
Abstract— We have demonstrated that a properlyequipped mobile robot can easily construct a detailed map of the wireless coverage of an urban environment. The Autonomous Vehicle f...
Paul Blaer, Peter K. Allen