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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Use of Dempster-Shafer Conflict Metric to Adapt Sensor Allocation to Unknown Environments
This paper considers a robot with multiple sensors navigating an unknown, heterogeneous environment. In these cases sensor errors may produce an unsuitable model of the world. For...
Jennifer Carlson, Robin R. Murphy
TROB
2008
311views more  TROB 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion
Stickybot is a bio-inspired robot that climbs smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, plastic and ceramic tile at 4 cm/s. The robot employs several design principles adapted from t...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Balancing state-space coverage in planning with dynamics
— Sampling-based kinodynamic planners, such as the popular RRT algorithm, have been proposed as promising solutions to planning for systems with dynamics. Nevertheless, complex s...
Yanbo Li, Kostas E. Bekris
CORR
2011
Springer
192views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
On cooperative patrolling: optimal trajectories, complexity analysis, and approximation algorithms
—The subject of this work is the patrolling of an environment with the aid of a team of autonomous agents. We consider both the design of open-loop trajectories with optimal prop...
Fabio Pasqualetti, Antonio Franchi, Francesco Bull...
CIRA
2007
IEEE
274views Robotics» more  CIRA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Object Tracking using Particle Swarm Optimization
—This paper presents an automatic object detection and tracking algorithm by using particle swarm optimization (PSO) based method, which is a searching algorithm inspired by the ...
Yuhua Zheng, Yan Meng