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IWC
2008
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Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby
IJRR
2008
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Optimization of Complex Robot Applications under Real Physical Limitations
This paper deals with minimum time trajectory optimization along a specified path subject to thermal constraints. We point out here that robots are often integrated in complex rob...
Matthieu Guilbert, Luc D. Joly, Pierre-Brice Wiebe...
IJRR
2008
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Trajectory Optimization using Reinforcement Learning for Map Exploration
Automatically building maps from sensor data is a necessary and fundamental skill for mobile robots; as a result, considerable research attention has focused on the technical chall...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
CORR
2006
Springer
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Multirobot rendezvous with visibility sensors in nonconvex environments
This paper presents a coordination algorithm for mobile autonomous robots. Relying upon distributed sensing, the robots achieve rendezvous, that is, they move to a common location....
Anurag Ganguli, Jorge Cortés, Francesco Bul...
CONNECTION
2006
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From unknown sensors and actuators to actions grounded in sensorimotor perceptions
This article describes a developmental system based on information theory implemented on a real robot that learns a model of its own sensory and actuator apparatus. There is no in...
Lars Olsson, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Daniel Polani
AROBOTS
2006
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Relative localization using path odometry information
All mobile bases suffer from localization errors. Previous approaches to accommodate for localization errors either use external sensors such as lasers or sonars, or use internal s...
Nakju Lett Doh, Howie Choset, Wan Kyun Chung
AROBOTS
2006
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How a mobile robot selects landmarks to make a decision based on an information criterion
Most current mobile robots are designed to determine their actions according to their positions. Before making a decision, they need to localize themselves. Thus, their observation...
Noriaki Mitsunaga, Minoru Asada
AI
2006
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Robot introspection through learned hidden Markov models
In this paper we describe a machine learning approach for acquiring a model of a robot behaviour from raw sensor data. We are interested in automating the acquisition of behaviour...
Maria Fox, Malik Ghallab, Guillaume Infantes, Dere...
CORR
2008
Springer
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Self-Motions of General 3-RPR Planar Parallel Robots
We study the kinematic geometry of general 3-RPR planar parallel robots with actuated base joints. These robots, while largely overlooked, have simple direct kinematics and large ...
Sébastien Briot, Ilian A. Bonev, Damien Cha...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Discrete Partitioning and Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots
We propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of mobile robots to partition and provide coverage of a non-convex environment. To handle arbitrary nonconvex envi...
Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Paolo Frasca, Fra...