Current NASA plans call for extended year-long, multikilometer treks for the 2003 and 2005 Mars missions. A much greater amount of rover autonomy is required compared to the recen...
This paper presents a distributed planning and control architecture for autonomous Multi-Manipulator Systems (MMS). The control architecture is implemented using an agent-based ap...
Juan C. Fraile, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep ...
Abstract— We are developing a swarm-intelligent inspection system based on a swarm of autonomous, miniature robots, using only on-board, local sensors. To estimate intrinsic adva...
: This paper describes an experimental exploration in Internet-based control of robots. The motivation of this work is that Internet communications can be exploited to achieve grea...
Existing modeling frameworks for manufacturing system control can be classified into hierarchical, heterarchical, and hybrid control frameworks. The main drawbacks of existing fram...
Sunderesh S. Heragu, Robert J. Graves, Byung-In Ki...