— The ballbot is a dynamically stable mobile robot that moves on a single spherical wheel and is capable of omnidirectional movement. The ballbot is an underactuated system with ...
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, Ralph L. Holl...
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
We study self-organized cooperation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm consisting of two sub-swarms. The robots of each sub-swarm play distinct roles based on their different charac...
Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni A. Di Caro, Luca Maria...
Abstract. Sensor networks using mobile robots have recently been proposed to deal with data communication in disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) where an instantaneous end-to-end p...
– In this paper, we describe a prototype interface that facilitates the control of a mobile robot team by a single operator, using a sketch interface on a tablet PC. The user ske...
Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Samuel Blisard, D...