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HOLOMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Simulation of Underwater Surveillance by a Team of Autonomous Robots
Within this paper we describe a simulation environment for the underwater surveillance and propose architecture of control part of autonomous robot capable of efficient operation i...
Milan Rollo, Petr Novák, Pavel Jisl
ECAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain
Consider a group of autonomous, mobile robots with the ability to physically connect to one another (self-assemble). The group is said to exhibit functional self-assembly if the ro...
Rehan O'Grady, Roderich Groß, Francesco Mond...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Coordinated exploration of unknown labyrinthine environments applied to the pursuit evasion problem
This paper introduces a multi-robot cooperation approach to solve the pursuit evasion problem for mobile robots that have omnidirectional vision sensors in unknown environments. T...
Damien Pellier, Humbert Fiorino
RTAS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Scheduling Messages with Deadlines in Multi-Hop Real-Time Sensor Networks
Consider a team of robots equipped with sensors that collaborate with one another to achieve a common goal. Sensors on robots produce periodic updates that must be transmitted to ...
Huan Li, Prashant J. Shenoy, Krithi Ramamritham
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems A study of Vision-based 3-D Mapping using Information Theory
Building cooperatively 3-D maps of unknown environments is one of the application fields of multi-robot systems. This article addressesthatproblemthroughaprobabilisticapproachbas...
Rui Rocha, Jorge Dias, Adriano Carvalho
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Modeling and Analysis of Beaconless and Beacon-Based Policies for a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System
Abstract— We are developing a swarm-intelligent inspection system based on a swarm of autonomous, miniature robots, using only on-board, local sensors. To estimate intrinsic adva...
Nikolaus Correll, Alcherio Martinoli
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Controlling Swarms of Robots Using Interpolated Implicit Functions
— We address the synthesis of controllers for large groups of robots and sensors, tackling the specific problem of controlling a swarm of robots to generate patterns specified ...
Luiz Chaimowicz, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
AINA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Group Membership Protocols Using Physical Robot Messengers
In this paper, we consider a distributed system that consists of a group of teams of worker robots that rely on physical robot messengers for the communication between the teams. ...
Rami Yared, Xavier Défago, Takuya Katayama
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context
This paper presents the combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject. Two live Human Robo...
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Michael L. Walters, Sarah Wood...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Empirical results from using a comfort level device in human-robot interaction studies
This paper describes an extensive analysis of the comfort level data of 7 subjects with respect to 12 robot behaviours as part of a human-robot interaction trial. This includes ro...
Kheng Lee Koay, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah Woods, M...