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ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Optimal Positioning Strategies for Shape Changes in Robot Teams
Abstract— In this paper, we consider the task of repositioning a formation of robots to a new shape while minimizing either the maximum distance that any robot travels, or the to...
John R. Spletzer, Rafael B. Fierro
ICRA
2009
IEEE
102views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping
—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagam...
CIRA
2007
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  CIRA 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Compliant Formation Control of a Multi-Vehicle System
— This research identifies a strategy called compliant formation control, which may be used to coordinate the navigational structure of a team of autonomous vehicles. This techni...
Erica Z. MacArthur, Carl D. Crane III
GECCO
2005
Springer
141views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving cooperative strategies for UAV teams
We present a Genetic Programming approach to evolve cooperative controllers for teams of UAVs. Our focus is a collaborative search mission in an uncertain and/or hostile environme...
Marc D. Richards, L. Darrell Whitley, J. Ross Beve...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 2 months ago
Control for throwing manipulation by one joint robot
This paper proposes a throwing manipulation strategy for a robot with one revolute joint. The throwing manipulation enables the robot not only to manipulate the object to outside o...
Hideyuki Miyashita, Tasuku Yamawaki, Masahito Yash...