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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Bids on Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Exploration
We propose a real time single item auction based task allocation method for the multi-robot exploration problem and investigate new bid evaluation strategies in this domain. In th...
Sanem Sariel, Tucker R. Balch
ICRA
2000
IEEE
136views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
14 years 26 days ago
Recent Progress in Local and Global Traversability for Planetary Rovers
Autonomous planetary rovers operating in vast unknown environments must operate efficiently because of size, power and computing limitations. Recently, we have developed a rover c...
Sanjiv Singh, Reid G. Simmons, Trey Smith, Anthony...
IROS
2008
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Energy management for indoor hovering robots
— Flying has an advantage when compared to ground based locomotion, as it simplifies the task of overcoming obstacles and allows for rapid coverage of an area while also providi...
James F. Roberts, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario ...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Speeding-up Multi-robot Exploration by Considering Semantic Place Information
— In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. One of the key issues in multi-robot exploration is how to assign targe...
Cyrill Stachniss, Óscar Martínez Moz...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
194views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A new variable stiffness design: Matching requirements of the next robot generation
— Facing new tasks, the conventional rigid design of robotic joints has come to its limits. Operating in unknown environments current robots are prone to failure when hitting unf...
Sebastian Wolf, Gerd Hirzinger