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CONSTRAINTS
2002
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A Constraint-Based Robotic Soccer Team
It is a challenging task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots to cooperate with each other and to compete with another team in a dynamic, real-time environment. For a robot te...
Yu Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth
AROBOTS
2000
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Robot Awareness in Cooperative Mobile Robot Learning
Most of the straight-forward learning approaches in cooperative robotics imply for each learning robot a state space growth exponential in the number of team members. To remedy the...
Claude F. Touzet
AROBOTS
2000
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Heterogeneous Teams of Modular Robots for Mapping and Exploration
In this article, we present the design of a team of heterogeneous, centimeter-scale robots that collaborate to map and explore unknown environments. The robots, called Millibots, a...
Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Christi...
CORR
2004
Springer
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Artificial Intelligence and Systems Theory: Applied to Cooperative Robots
- This paper describes an approach to the design of a population of cooperative robots based on concepts borrowed from Systems Theory and Artificial Intelligence The research has b...
Pedro U. Lima, Luís M. M. Custódio
CORR
2004
Springer
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The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
AROBOTS
2002
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Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot
If we are to build human-like robots that can interact naturally with people, our robots must know not only about the properties of objects but also the properties of animate agent...
Brian Scassellati
AROBOTS
2002
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Dynamically-Stable Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots
We present an approach to path planning for humanoid robots that computes dynamically-stable, collision-free trajectories from full-body posture goals. Given a geometric model of t...
James J. Kuffner Jr., Satoshi Kagami, Koichi Nishi...
AROBOTS
2002
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Tracking Targets Using Multiple Robots: The Effect of Environment Occlusion
This paper addresses the problem of tracking multiple targets using a network of communicating robots and stationary sensors. We introduce a Region-based Approach which controls r...
Boyoon Jung, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
AROBOTS
2004
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Building Terrain-Covering Ant Robots: A Feasibility Study
Robotics researchers have studied robots that can follow trails laid by other robots. We, on the other hand, study robots that leave trails in the terrain to cover closed terrain r...
Jonas Svennebring, Sven Koenig
AROBOTS
2004
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Propagation of Uncertainty in Cooperative Multirobot Localization: Analysis and Experimental Results
This paper examines the problem of cooperative localization for the case of large groups of mobile robots. A Kalman filter estimator is implemented and tested for this purpose. The...
Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Ioannis M. Rekleitis