— This paper provides a detailed analysis of the motion planning subsystem for the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle. The approach is based on the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees ...
Yoshiaki Kuwata, Gaston A. Fiore, Justin Teo, Emil...
— We present a new approach to path planning for flexible wires. We introduce a method for computing stable configurations of a wire subject to manipulation constraints. These ...
Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile ro...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Joydeep Biswas, Manuela M. Ve...
A robot must often react to events in its environment and exceptional conditions by suspendingor abandoning its current plan and selecting a new plan that is an appropriate respons...
Autonomous robots need the ability to move purposefully and without human intervention in real-world environments that have not been speci cally engineered for them. These environm...