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AROBOTS
2000
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Acquiring Mobile Robot Behaviors by Learning Trajectory Velocities
Abstract. The development of robots that learn from experience is a relentless challenge confronting artificial intelligence today. This paper describes a robot learning method whi...
Koren Ward, Alexander Zelinsky
AROBOTS
2000
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A Gesture Based Interface for Human-Robot Interaction
Service robotics is currently a pivotal research area in robotics, with enormous societal potential. Since service robots directly interact with people, nding natural" and ea...
Stefan Waldherr, Roseli Romero, Sebastian Thrun
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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Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) has existed as a subfield of AI for less than two decades. DAI is concerned with systems that consist of multiple independent entities th...
Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso
AROBOTS
2000
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Optimal Selection of Uncertain Actions by Maximizing Expected Utility
A new means of action selection via utility fusion is introduced as an alternative to both sensor fusion and command fusion. Distributed asynchronous behaviors indicate the utility...
Julio Rosenblatt
AROBOTS
2000
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Using Real-Time Stereo Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation
This paper describes a working stereo-vision-based mobile robot that can navigate and autonomously explore its environment safely while building occupancy grid maps of the environ...
Don Murray, James J. Little
AROBOTS
2000
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The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-Functional System
We wish for robots to manipulate objects and move flexibly in three-dimensional spaces. We describe a robot that can move on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions ...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus
AROBOTS
2000
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Functional Programming of Behavior-Based Systems
In this paper, I describe a simple functional programming language, GRL, in which most of the characteristic features of the popular behavior-based robot architectures can be conc...
Ian Horswill
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...