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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
We present an algorithm that allows swarms of robots to navigate in environments containing unknown obstacles, moving towards and spreading along 2D shapes given by implicit funct...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— In this paper, we address navigation and coordination methods that allow swarms of robots to converge and spread along complex 2D shapes in environments containing unkn...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Recent years are seeing a renewed interest in general multi-robot architectures, capable of automating coordination. However, few architectures explore integration of multiple ...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Flexure hinge has been commonly used as a substitute for mechanical joints in the design of micropositioning mechanisms. However, inaccurate modeling of flexure hinges deteriorates...
AROBOTS
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
In this paper, we introduce a self-assembling and self-organizing artifact, called a swarm-bot, composed of a swarm of s-bots, mobile robots with the ability to connect to and to ...