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ICRA
2009
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Trajectory planning and control of an underactuated dynamically stable single spherical wheeled mobile robot
— 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...
AR
2011
13 years 2 months ago
A Direct Physical Interface for Navigation and Positioning of a Robotic Nursing Assistant
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...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp
SAB
2010
Springer
153views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Cooperative Stigmergic Navigation in a Heterogeneous Robotic Swarm
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...
UCS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Mobility Helps Data Delivery in Disruption Tolerant Networks
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...
Kaoru Sezaki, Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Yoshito Tobe
ICRA
2006
IEEE
93views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Using a Qualitative Sketch to Control a Team of Robots
– 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...