Abstract— Creatively misquoting Thomas Hobbes, the process of software debugging is nasty, brutish, and all too long. This holds all the more true in robotics, which frequently i...
Benjamin D. Rister, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pi...
Abstract— Tightly-coupled multi-agent systems such as modular robots frequently exhibit properties of interest that span multiple modules. These properties cannot easily be detec...
Michael DeRosa, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai...
We address how to write programs for distributed computing systems in which the network topology can change dynamically. Examples of such systems, which we call ensembles, include ...
Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Peter Lee, Seth Copen G...
— One of the primary impediments to building ensembles with many modular robots is the complexity and number of mechanical mechanisms used to construct the individual modules. As...
Brian T. Kirby, Burak Aksak, Jason Campbell, James...
Abstract— This paper presents Meld, a programming language for modular robots, i.e., for independently executing robots where inter-robot communication is limited to immediate ne...
Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Seth Copen Goldstein, P...