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AROBOTS
2004
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Building Terrain-Covering Ant Robots: A Feasibility Study
Robotics researchers have studied robots that can follow trails laid by other robots. We, on the other hand, study robots that leave trails in the terrain to cover closed terrain r...
Jonas Svennebring, Sven Koenig
AROBOTS
2004
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An Architecture for Distributed Environment Sensing with Application to Robotic Cliff Exploration
Future planetary exploration missions will use cooperative robots to explore and sample rough terrain. To succeed robots will need to cooperatively acquire and share data. Here a c...
Vivek A. Sujan, Steven Dubowsky, Terrance L. Hunts...
AROBOTS
2004
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Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles
We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
AROBOTS
2004
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Hormone-Inspired Self-Organization and Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms
The control of robot swarming in a distributed manner is a difficult problem because global behaviors must emerge as a result of many local actions. This paper uses a bio-inspired ...
Wei-Min Shen, Peter M. Will, Aram Galstyan, Cheng-...
AROBOTS
2004
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Propagation of Uncertainty in Cooperative Multirobot Localization: Analysis and Experimental Results
This paper examines the problem of cooperative localization for the case of large groups of mobile robots. A Kalman filter estimator is implemented and tested for this purpose. The...
Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Ioannis M. Rekleitis
AROBOTS
2004
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Planetary Cliff Descent Using Cooperative Robots
Future robotic planetary exploration will need to traverse geographically diverse and challenging terrain. Cliffs, ravines, and fissures are of great scientific interest because th...
Erik Mumm, Shane Farritor, Paolo Pirjanian, Chris ...
AROBOTS
2004
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Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
The swarm intelligence paradigm has proven to have very interesting properties such as robustness, flexibility and ability to solve complex problems exploiting parallelism and self...
Francesco Mondada, Giovanni C. Pettinaro, Andr&eac...
AROBOTS
2004
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A Set Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Robot Localization and Mapping
This paper addresses the localization and mapping problem for a robot moving through a (possibly) unknown environment where indistinguishable landmarks can be detected. A set theo...
Mauro Di Marco, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrap...
AROBOTS
2004
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Distributed Cooperative Outdoor Multirobot Localization and Mapping
The subject of this article is a scheme for distributed outdoor localization of a team of robots and the use of the robot team for outdoor terrain mapping. Localization is accompli...
Raj Madhavan, Kingsley Fregene, Lynne E. Parker