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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Virtual Obstacle Concept for Local-Minimum Recovery in Potential-Field Based Navigation
We present a navigation algorithm, which integrates virtual obstacle concept with a potential-field-based method to maneuver cylindrical mobile robots in unknown or unstructured e...
Liu Chengqing, Marcelo H. Ang, Hariharan Krishnan,...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
92views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Time Optimal Trajectories for Bounded Velocity Differential Drive Robots
A differential drive robot is perhaps the simplest type of mobile robot, and the bounded velocity model is perhaps the simplest useful model of the admissible controls. This paper...
Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
ICRA
2002
IEEE
167views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 10 days ago
Coordinated Teams of Reactive Mobile Platforms
This paper presents techniques for exploiting redundancy in teams of mobile robots. In particular, we address tasks involving the kinematic coordination of several communicating r...
John Sweeney, T. J. Brunette, Yunlei Yang, Roderic...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
187views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 11 days ago
Trajectory Planning using Reachable-State Density Functions
:This paper presents a trajectory planning algorithm for mobile robots which may be subject to kinodynamic constraints. Using computational methods from noncommutative harmonic ana...
Richard Mason, Joel W. Burdick
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Mobile Robot Self-Localization in Large-Scale Environments
— This paper presents a new approach for the absolute self-localization of a mobile robot in structured large-scale environments. The requirements with regard to both, the necess...
Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer
ICRA
2002
IEEE
146views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 11 days ago
Algorithms and Sensors for Small Robot Path Following
Abstract— Tracked mobile robots in the 20 kg size class are under development for applications in urban reconnaissance. For efficient deployment, it is desirable for teams of ro...
Robert W. Hogg, Arturo L. Rankin, Stergios I. Roum...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 11 days ago
Huey, Dewey, Louie, and GUI - Commanding Robot Formations
We present a graphical user interface (GUI) for easy, intuitive control of a group of mobile robots moving in formation, and we give a short description of the general, local, dis...
Jakob Fredslund, Maja J. Mataric
ICRA
2002
IEEE
121views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 11 days ago
A Tale of Two Filters - On-Line Novelty Detection
Abstract— For mobile robots, as well as other learning systems, the ability to highlight unexpected features of their environment – novelty detection – is very useful. One pa...
Paul A. Crook, Stephen Marsland, Gillian Hayes, Ul...
EUSAI
2003
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Real Time Application Support in an Ambient Network Using Intelligent Mobile Robots
In this paper, we present an intelligent and controllable ad hoc network using mobile robot routers in heterogeneous mobile environments. The goal of the mobile robots is to ensur...
Rabah Meraihi, Gwendal Le Grand, Samir Tohmé...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
146views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 21 days ago
Putting the 'I' in 'team': an ego-centric approach to cooperative localization
— This paper describes a cooperative method for relative localization of mobile robot teams; that is, it describes a method whereby every robot in the team can estimate the pose ...
Andrew Howard, Maja J. Mataric, Gaurav S. Sukhatme