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AAAI
1998
15 years 5 months ago
The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Modeling and Analysis of Beaconless and Beacon-Based Policies for a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System
Abstract— We are developing a swarm-intelligent inspection system based on a swarm of autonomous, miniature robots, using only on-board, local sensors. To estimate intrinsic adva...
Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli
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JIRS
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
A New Algorithm for Measuring and Optimizing the Manipulability Index
The estimation of the performance characteristics of robot manipulators is crucial in robot application and design. Furthermore, studying the manipulability index for every point w...
Ayssam Yehia Elkady, Mohammed Mohammed, Tarek Sobh
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Genetic Optimization and Simulation of a Piezoelectric Pipe-Crawling Inspection Robot
- Using the Darwin2k development software, a genetic algorithm (GA) was used to design and optimize a pipecrawling robot for parameters such as mass, power consumption, and joint e...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Jeri Briscoe
ISER
1993
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Mobile Robot Miniaturisation: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms
The interaction of an autonomous mobile robot with the real world critically depends on the robots morphology and on its environment. Building a model of these aspects is extremel...
Francesco Mondada, Edoardo Franzi, Paolo Ienne