Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
— Simulation is frequently used in the study of multi-agent systems. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is not necessarily clear how faithfully the details of the simulated model r...
Christopher M. Cianci, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinol...
— The problem of appearance-based mapping and navigation in outdoor environments is far from trivial. In this paper, an appearance-based topological map, covering a large, mixed ...
— Despite all the progress that has been made in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, traditional approaches seem unsuitable to build truly intelligent robots, exhibiting human...
— Legged robots have the potential to navigate a much larger variety of terrain than their wheeled counterparts. In this paper we present a hierarchical control architecture that...
Abstract— This paper presents the design of a 14 degree-ofmotion forearm actuation unit for an upper extremity prosthesis. The forearm utilizes pneumatic type actuators which use...
Thomas J. Withrow, Xiangrong Shen, Jason E. Mitche...
Abstract— Safety is a critical characteristic for robots designed to operate in human environments. This paper presents the concept of hybrid actuation for the development of hum...
— We present a set of tools and a process, making use of inexpensive and environmentally friendly materials, that enable the rapid realization of fully functional large scale pro...
Abstract— We present and examine a technique for estimating the ego-motion of a mobile robot using memory-based learning and a monocular camera. Unlike other approaches that rely...
Richard Roberts, Hai Nguyen, Niyant Krishnamurthi,...
— In this paper, we lay the groundwork for extending our previously developed ASyMTRe architecture to enable constructivist learning for multi-robot team tasks. The ASyMTRe archi...