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ICRA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— Creatively misquoting Thomas Hobbes, the process of software debugging is nasty, brutish, and all too long. This holds all the more true in robotics, which frequently i...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— Tightly-coupled multi-agent systems such as modular robots frequently exhibit properties of interest that span multiple modules. These properties cannot easily be detec...
ICLP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
We address how to write programs for distributed computing systems in which the network topology can change dynamically. Examples of such systems, which we call ensembles, include ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— One of the primary impediments to building ensembles with many modular robots is the complexity and number of mechanical mechanisms used to construct the individual modules. As...
IROS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— This paper presents Meld, a programming language for modular robots, i.e., for independently executing robots where inter-robot communication is limited to immediate ne...