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AROBOTS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots
—In this paper we consider the problem of controlling multiple robots manipulating and transporting a payload in three dimensions via cables. We develop robot configurations tha...
Nathan Michael, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar
AROBOTS
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
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...
AROBOTS
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
A Paradigm for Dynamic Coordination of Multiple Robots
In this paper, we present a paradigm for coordinating multiple robots in the execution of cooperative tasks. The basic idea in the paper is to assign to each robot in the team, a ...
Luiz Chaimowicz, Vijay Kumar, Mario Fernando Monte...
AAAI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
An Optimization Variant of Multi-Robot Path Planning Is Intractable
An optimization variant of a problem of path planning for multiple robots is addressed in this work. The task is to find spatial-temporal path for each robot of a group of robots ...
Pavel Surynek
AUSAI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Constraint-Based Multi-agent Path Planning
Planning collision-free paths for multiple robots traversing a shared space is a problem that grows combinatorially with the number of robots. The naive centralised approach soon ...
Malcolm Ryan
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Teaching multi-robot coordination using demonstration of communication and state sharing
Solutions to complex tasks often require the cooperation of multiple robots, however, developing multi-robot policies can present many challenges. In this work, we introduce teach...
Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso
GECCO
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Coevolution of heterogeneous multi-robot teams
Evolving multiple robots so that each robot acting independently can contribute to the maximization of a system level objective presents significant scientific challenges. For e...
Matt Knudson, Kagan Tumer
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Human control for cooperating robot teams
Human control of multiple robots has been characterized by the average demand of single robots on human attention or the distribution of demands from multiple robots. When robots ...
Jijun Wang, Michael Lewis
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Developing performance metrics for the supervisory control of multiple robots
Efforts are underway to make it possible for a single operator to effectively control multiple robots. In these high workload situations, many questions arise including how many r...
Jacob W. Crandall, M. L. Cummings
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Managing autonomy in robot teams: observations from four experiments
It is often desirable for a human to manage multiple robots. Autonomy is required to keep workload within tolerable ranges, and dynamically adapting the type of autonomy may be us...
Michael A. Goodrich, Timothy W. McLain, Jeffrey D....