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UCS
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mobility Helps Data Delivery in Disruption Tolerant Networks
Abstract. Sensor networks using mobile robots have recently been proposed to deal with data communication in disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) where an instantaneous end-to-end p...
Kaoru Sezaki, Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Yoshito Tobe
IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
From structured english to robot motion
— Recently, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) has been successfully applied to high-level task and motion planning problems for mobile robots. One of the main attributes of LTL is its ...
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Georgios E. Fainekos, George J....
IROS
2007
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
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Global action selection for illumination invariant color modeling
— A major challenge in the path of widespread use of mobile robots is the ability to function autonomously, learning useful features from the environment and using them to adapt ...
Mohan Sridharan, Peter Stone
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential Drive Mobile Robots Among Piecewise Smooth Obstacles
— Computing optimal paths for mobile robots is an interesting and important problem. This paper presents a method to compute the shortest path for a differential-drive mobile rob...
Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle
ICRA
2007
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
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Latency Analysis of Coalescence for Robot Groups
— Coalescence is the problem of isolated mobile robots independently searching for peers with the goal of forming a single connected network. This is important because communicat...
Sameera Poduri, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
FUZZIEEE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Soft Target Based Obstacle Avoidance for Car-like Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environment
— The real time flexible operation of a car-like mobile robot with nonholonomic constraints in dynamic environment is still a very challenging problem. The difficulty lies in t...
Yougen Chen, Seiji Yasunobu
IROS
2008
IEEE
167views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
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Multi-robot complete exploration using hill climbing and topological recovery
— This article addresses the problem of autonomous map building and exploration of an unknown environment with mobile robots. The proposed method assumes that mobile robots use o...
Rui Rocha, João Filipe Ferreira, Jorge Dias
IROS
2008
IEEE
169views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
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Smooth Nearness-Diagram Navigation
— This paper presents a new method for reactive collision avoidance for mobile robots in complex and cluttered environments. Our technique is to adapt the “divide and conquer...
Joseph W. Durham, Francesco Bullo
ICRA
2008
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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Multi-robot routing under limited communication range
Abstract— Teams of mobile robots have been recently proposed as effective means of completing complex missions involving multiple tasks spatially distributed over a large area. A...
Alejandro R. Mosteo, Luis Montano, Michail G. Lago...
CDC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Persistent formation control of multi-robot networks
— This paper presents a method for controlling formations of mobile robots. In particular, the problem of maintaining so-called “persistent formations” while moving the forma...
Brian Stephen Smith, Jiuguang Wang, Magnus Egerste...