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IROS
2009
IEEE
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Independent navigation of multiple mobile robots with hybrid reciprocal velocity obstacles
Abstract— We present an approach for smooth and collisionfree navigation of multiple mobile robots amongst each other. Each robot senses its surroundings and acts independently w...
Jamie Snape, Jur P. van den Berg, Stephen J. Guy, ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Scalable self-assembly and self-repair in a collective of robots
—A collective of robots can together complete a task that is beyond the capabilities of any of its individual robots. One property of a robotic collective that allows it to compl...
Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Multi-robot SLAM using ceiling vision
— In this paper we present a new vision-based SLAM approach for multi-robot formulation. For a cooperative map reconstruction, the robots have to know each other’s relative pos...
Hee Seok Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee
IROS
2009
IEEE
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CoMutaR: A framework for multi-robot coordination and task allocation
— In multi-robot systems, task allocation and coordination are two fundamental problems that share high synergy. Although multi-robot architectures typically separate them into d...
Pedro M. Shiroma, Maria Fernando Montenegro Campos
IROS
2009
IEEE
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TENTACLES: Self-configuring robotic radio networks in unknown environments
— This paper presents a bio-inspired, distributed control algorithm called TENTACLES for a group of radio robots to move, self-configure and maintain communication between some c...
Hi Cchi H. Chiu, Bo Ryu, Hua Zhu, Pedro A. Szekely...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Robots with inflatable links
—The use of robots in assistive roles will be an increasingly significant application for robotics. Assistive robots need to physically interact with humans in a safe manner. We ...
Siddharth Sanan, Justin B. Moidel, Christopher G. ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Optimal coverage for multiple hovering robots with downward facing cameras
— This paper presents a distributed control strategy for deploying hovering robots with multiple downward facing cameras to collectively monitor an environment. Information per p...
Mac Schwager, Brian J. Julian, Daniela Rus
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Behavioral control for multi-robot perimeter patrol: A Finite State Automata approach
Abstract— This paper proposes a multiple robot control algorithm to approach the problem of patrolling an open or closed line. The algorithm is fully decentralized, i.e., no comm...
Alessandro Marino, Lynne E. Parker, Gianluca Anton...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Stochastic strategies for a swarm robotic assembly system
— We present a decentralized, scalable approach to assembling a group of heterogeneous parts into different products using a swarm of robots. While the assembly plans are predete...
Loic Matthey, Spring Berman, Vijay Kumar
ICDCN
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Byzantine-Resilient Convergence in Oblivious Robot Networks
Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, ...
Zohir Bouzid, Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, S&e...