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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...
IJRR
2002
175views more  IJRR 2002»
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...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
CThru: exploration in a video-centered information space for educational purposes
We present CThru, a self-guided video-based educational environment in a large multi-display setting. We employ a video-centered approach, creating and combining multimedia conten...
Hao Jiang, Alain Viel, Meekal Bajaj, Robert A. Lue...
SIMPAR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Exploration Strategies for a Robot with a Continously Rotating 3D Scanner
To benchmark the efficiency of exploration strategies one has to use robot simulators. In an exploration task, the robot faces an unknown environment. Of course one could test the ...
Elena Digor, Andreas Birk, Andreas Nüchter