This paper studies a general class of formations of unicycle robots. One of the robots plays the role of the leader and the formation is induced through a constraint function F tha...
We consider the problem of designing controllers for nonholonomic mobile robots converging to the source (minimum) of a field. In addition to the mobility constraints posed by the ...
Shun-ichi Azuma, Mahmut Selman Sakar, George J. Pa...
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
—In this paper we consider the problem of controlling multiple robots manipulating and transporting a payload in three dimensions via cables. We develop robot configurations tha...
Abstract-- This paper presents a framework for generating time-optimal velocity profiles for a group of pathconstrained vehicle robots that have fixed and known initial and goal lo...
As robots become more common, it becomes increasingly useful for them to communicate and effectively share knowledge that they have learned through their individual experiences. L...
In this paper, we study the exclusive perpetual exploration problem with mobile anonymous and oblivious robots in a discrete space. Our results hold for the most generic settings:...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel method for developing and evaluating intelligent robot behavior for joint human-robot activities. We extended a physical simulation of an auto...
To build autonomous robots capable to plan and control tasks in human environments, we need a description of trajectories that allows the robot to reason on his moves. In this pape...
Abstract. In an application where autonomous robots can amalgamate spontaneously into arbitrary organisms, the individual robots cannot know a priori at which location in an organi...