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ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
LumiBots: making emergence graspable in a swarm of robots
Emergence is a concept that is not easy to grasp, since it contradicts our idea of central control and planning. In this work, we use a swarm of robots as a tangible tool to visua...
Mey Lean Kronemann, Verena Vanessa Hafner
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Learning multirobot joint action plans from simultaneous task execution demonstrations
The central problem of designing intelligent robot systems which learn by demonstrations of desired behaviour has been largely studied within the field of robotics. Numerous archi...
Murilo Fernandes Martins, Yiannis Demiris
AE
2009
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
On-Line, On-Board Evolution of Robot Controllers
This paper reports on a feasibility study into the evolution of robot controllers during the actual operation of robots (on-line), using only the computational resources within the...
Nicolas Bredeche, Evert Haasdijk, A. E. Eiben
CCCG
1993
14 years 23 days ago
Shortest Paths for a Two-robot Rendez-vous
In this paper, we consider an optimalmotionplanning problem for a pair of point robots in a planar environment with polygonal obstacles. We seek a pair of paths upon which the rob...
Erik L. Wynters, Joseph S. B. Mitchell
AAAI
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Property Mapping: A Simple Technique for Mobile Robot Programming
The mobile robot programming problem is a software engineering challenge that is not easily conquered using contemporary software engineering best practices. We propose robot obse...
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
AAAI
1998
14 years 24 days ago
The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
AAAI
1998
14 years 24 days ago
A Motivational System for Regulating Human-Robot Interaction
This paper presents a motivational system for an autonomous robot which is designed to regulate human-robot interaction. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infa...
Cynthia Breazeal
IJCAI
2003
14 years 25 days ago
Towards Pervasive Robotics
Pervasive robotics will require, in a near future, small, light and cheap robots that exhibit complex behaviors. These demands led to the development of the M2-M4 Macaco project -...
Artur M. Arsenio
FLAIRS
2004
14 years 25 days ago
Developing Task Specific Sensing Strategies Using Reinforcement Learning
Robots that can adapt and perform multiple tasks promise to be a powerful tool with many applications. In order to achieve such robots, control systems have to be constructed that...
Srividhya Rajendran, Manfred Huber
AIA
2006
14 years 26 days ago
Synthesizing Diagnostic Explanations from Monitoring Data in Multi-Robot Systems
The paper discusses the issues concerning monitoring and diagnosis of a multi-robot system involving a team of mobile robots providing services in an environment which is partiall...
Roberto Micalizio, Pietro Torasso, Gianluca Torta