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ICRA
2007
IEEE
178views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Behavior Based Adaptive Control for Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling
Abstract— This paper describes an investigation into the adaptive control of autonomous mobile sensor platforms for providing oceanographic sampling. Mobile sensor platforms prov...
Donald P. Eickstedt, Michael R. Benjamin, Ding Wan...
ICAS
2008
IEEE
200views Robotics» more  ICAS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Connectivity of Thetis, a Distributed Hybrid Simulator, with a Mixed Control Architecture
—The purpose of this paper is to present the linkage of Thetis (a real time multi-vehicles hybrid simulator for heterogeneous vehicles) with a control architecture for the manage...
Olivier Parodi, Abdellah El Jalaoui, David Andreu
AIPS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Generative Planning for Hybrid Systems Based on Flow Tubes
When controlling an autonomous system, it is inefficient or sometimes impossible for the human operator to specify detailed commands. Instead, the field of AI autonomy has develop...
Hui X. Li, Brian C. Williams
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An Efficient Motion Planning Algorithm for Stochastic Dynamic Systems with Constraints on Probability of Failure
When controlling dynamic systems, such as mobile robots in uncertain environments, there is a trade off between risk and reward. For example, a race car can turn a corner faster b...
Masahiro Ono, Brian C. Williams
CDC
2009
IEEE
138views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 3 months ago
Beyond local optimality: An improved approach to hybrid model learning
Abstract-- Local convergence is a limitation of many optimization approaches for multimodal functions. For hybrid model learning, this can mean a compromise in accuracy. We develop...
Stephanie Gil, Brian Williams