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TCS
2008
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Arbitrary pattern formation by asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious robots
From an engineering point of view, the problem of coordinating a set of autonomous, mobile robots for the purpose of cooperatively performing a task has been studied extensively o...
Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro...
SWARM
2008
SPRINGER
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Self-organized flocking in mobile robot swarms
In this paper, we study self-organized flocking in a swarm of mobile robots. We present Kobot, a mobile robot platform developed specifically for swarm robotic studies. We describe...
Ali Emre Turgut, Hande Çelikkanat, Fatih G&...
RAS
2006
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From pixels to multi-robot decision-making: A study in uncertainty
Mobile robots must cope with uncertainty from many sources along the path from interpreting raw sensor inputs to behavior selection to execution of the resulting primitive actions...
Peter Stone, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, Gre...
ENGL
2007
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RRT-based strategies for sensor-based exploration
—Real mobile robots should be able to build an abstract representation of the physical environment, in order to navigate and to work in such environment. We present a method for ...
Abraham Sánchez López, Judith Le&oac...
JFR
2008
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Hough based terrain classification for realtime detection of drivable ground
The usability of mobile robots for surveillance, search and rescue missions can be significantly improved by intelligent functionalities decreasing the cognitive load on the opera...
Jann Poppinga, Andreas Birk 0002, Kaustubh Pathak
CORR
2006
Springer
101views Education» more  CORR 2006»
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Metric State Space Reinforcement Learning for a Vision-Capable Mobile Robot
We address the problem of autonomously learning controllers for visioncapable mobile robots. We extend McCallum's (1995) Nearest-Sequence Memory algorithm to allow for genera...
Viktor Zhumatiy, Faustino J. Gomez, Marcus Hutter,...
AROBOTS
2006
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Visual wheel sinkage measurement for planetary rover mobility characterization
Wheel sinkage is an important indicator of mobile robot mobility in natural outdoor terrains. This paper presents a vision-based method to measure the sinkage of a rigid robot whee...
Christopher A. Brooks, Karl Iagnemma, Steven Dubow...
AROBOTS
2007
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Mobile robot team forming for crystallization of proteins
The process of protein crystallization is explained using the theory of robotics, particularly path planning of mobile robots. Path planning is a procedure which specifies motion ...
Yuan F. Zheng, Weidong Chen
AROBOTS
2007
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Development environments for autonomous mobile robots: A survey
Robotic Development Environments (RDEs) have come to play an increasingly important role in robotics research in general, and for the development of architectures for mobile robot...
James F. Kramer, Matthias Scheutz
AROBOTS
2007
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Behaviors for physical cooperation between robots for mobility improvement
— A team of small, low-cost robots instead of a single large, complex robot is useful in operations such as search and rescue, urban exploration etc. However, the performance of ...
Ashish Deshpande, Jonathan E. Luntz