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ICRA
2007
IEEE
222views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft
In this paper, we present a vision-based terrain mapping and analysis system, and a model predictive control (MPC)based flight control system, for autonomous landing of a helicop...
Todd Templeton, David Hyunchul Shim, Christopher G...
ISORC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Extended RT-Component Framework for RT-Middleware
Modular component-based robot systems require not only an infrastructure for component management, but also scalability as well as real-time properties. Robot Technology (RT)-Midd...
Hiroyuki Chishiro, Yuji Fujita, Akira Takeda, Yuta...
SAC
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
I4Copter: an adaptable and modular quadrotor platform
Quadrotor helicopters are micro air vehicles with vertical take-off and landing capabilities controlled by varying the rotation speed of four fixed pitch propellers. Due to their...
Peter Ulbrich, Rüdiger Kapitza, Christian Har...
CORR
2006
Springer
93views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Multirobot rendezvous with visibility sensors in nonconvex environments
This paper presents a coordination algorithm for mobile autonomous robots. Relying upon distributed sensing, the robots achieve rendezvous, that is, they move to a common location....
Anurag Ganguli, Jorge Cortés, Francesco Bul...
ALIFE
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Duplication of Modules Facilitates the Evolution of Functional Specialization
The evolution of simulated robots with three different architectures is studied in this article. We compare a nonmodular feed-forward network, a hardwired modular, and a duplicatio...
Raffaele Calabretta, Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Paris...