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IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 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
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 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
13 years 11 months 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...
AAAI
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Navigation for Everyday Life
Past work in navigation has worked toward the goal of producing an accurate map of the environment. While no one can deny the usefulness of such a map, the ideal of producing a co...
Daniel D. Fu, Kristian J. Hammond, Michael J. Swai...
IJRR
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Navigation Strategies for Exploring Indoor Environments
This paper investigates safe and efficient map-building strategies for a mobile robot with imperfect control and sensing. In the implementation, a robot equipped with a range sens...
Héctor H. González-Baños, Jea...