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ANTSW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing the Cooperative Transport of Multiple Objects
In this paper we present an approach to the cooperative transport of multiple objects in swarm robotics. The approach is motivated by the observation that the performance of cooper...
Antoine Decugnière, Benjamin Poulain, Alexa...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
103views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Using a swarm of self-propelled natural microrobots in the form of flagellated bacteria to perform complex micro-assembly tasks
— Many science fiction novels have envisioned swarms of artificial microrobots capable of performing complex collective tasks. Unfortunately, today’s technological constraints ...
Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi
CDC
2008
IEEE
120views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Navigation-based optimization of stochastic strategies for allocating a robot swarm among multiple sites
— We present a decentralized, communication-less approach to the dynamic allocation of a swarm of homogeneous robots to a target distribution among multiple sites. Building on ou...
Spring Berman, Ádám M. Halász...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
178views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Surface based wireless power transmission and bidirectional communication for autonomous robot swarms
—We introduce an inexpensive, low complexity power surface system capable of simultaneously providing wireless power and bidirectional communication from a surface to multiple mo...
Travis Deyle, Matthew S. Reynolds
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coalition game-based distributed coverage of unknown environments by robot swarms
We consider the problem of distributed exploration or coverage of an unknown environment by a swarm of mobile minirobots that have limited memory, computation and communication ca...
Ke Cheng, Prithviraj Dasgupta