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IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Multi-robot complete exploration using hill climbing and topological recovery
— This article addresses the problem of autonomous map building and exploration of an unknown environment with mobile robots. The proposed method assumes that mobile robots use o...
Rui Rocha, João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias
IJRR
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Sensor-Based Exploration: Incremental Construction of the Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph
This paper prescribes an incremental procedure to construct roadmaps of unknown environments. Recall that a roadmap is a geometric structure that a robot uses to plan a path betwe...
Howie Choset, Sean Walker, Kunnayut Eiamsa-Ard, Jo...
IROS
2008
IEEE
172views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation
This paper explores the use of bidding mechanisms to coordinate the actions requested by a group of agents in charge of achieving the task of guiding a robot towards a specified t...
Carles Sierra, Ramon López de Mántar...
ICRA
1993
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 1993»
14 years 17 days ago
Exploration Strategies for Mobile Robots
The problem of programming a robot t o carry out a systematic exploration of its environment using realistic sensors is considered in this paper. The robot is modelled as a single...
Camillo J. Taylor, David J. Kriegman