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MRC
2003
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13 years 11 months ago
Blue Swarm 2.5: A Step Toward an Autonomous Swarm of Search and Rescue Robots
Urban search and rescue is a difficult domain for autonomous mobile robots to operate in. The environment can be expected to be highly unstructured, with many obstacles and hazard...
Daniel P. Stormont, Matthew D. Berkemeier
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Performance evaluation of a vertical line descriptor for omnidirectional images
— In robotics, vertical lines have been always very useful for autonomous robot localization and navigation in structured environments. This paper presents a robust method for ma...
Davide Scaramuzza, Cédric Pradalier, Roland...
AMIRE
2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots
Abstract. We introduce mathematically rigorous metrics on agent experiences having various temporal horizons. Sensorimotor variables accessible to the agent are treated as informat...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Naeem Assif Mirza, Kerstin...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Surface based wireless power transmission and bidirectional communication for autonomous robot swarms
—We introduce an inexpensive, low complexity power surface system capable of simultaneously providing wireless power and bidirectional communication from a surface to multiple mo...
Travis Deyle, Matthew S. Reynolds
IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Cooperation of heterogeneous, autonomous robots: A case study of humanoid and wheeled robots
Abstract— In this paper we present a case study of cooperation of a strongly heterogeneous robot team, composed of a highly articulated humanoid robot and a wheeled robot with la...
Jutta Kiener, Oskar von Stryk