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EASSS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cooperating Physical Robots: A Lesson in Playing Robotic Soccer
Having a robot that carries out a task for you is certainly of some help. Having a group of robots seems to be even better because in this case the task may be finished faster and...
Bernhard Nebel
AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Terrain coverage with ant robots: a simulation study
In this paper, we study a simple means for coordinating teams of simple agents. In particular, we study ant robots and how they can cover terrain once or repeatedly by leaving mar...
Sven Koenig, Yaxin Liu
INTERACTION
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
RoboEarth: connecting robots worldwide
In this paper, we present the core concept and the benefits of an approach called RoboEarth which will be highly beneficial for future robotic applications in science and industry...
Oliver Zweigle, René van de Molengraft, Raf...
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On Multi-robot Area Coverage
Area coverage is one of the emerging problems in multi-robot coordination. In this task a team of robots is cooperatively trying to observe or sweep an entire area, possibly conta...
Pooyan Fazli
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Towards Sensor Based Coverage with Robot Teams
We introduce a new algorithm to cover an unknown space with a homogeneous team of circular mobile robots. Our approach is based on a single robot coverage algorithm, a boustrophed...
DeWitt Latimer IV, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Vincen...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
146views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Algorithms and Sensors for Small Robot Path Following
Abstract— Tracked mobile robots in the 20 kg size class are under development for applications in urban reconnaissance. For efficient deployment, it is desirable for teams of ro...
Robert W. Hogg, Arturo L. Rankin, Stergios I. Roum...
EUSAI
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Lino, the User-Interface Robot
Abstract. This paper reports on the development of a domestic userinterface robot that is able to have natural human interaction by speech and emotional feedback. Natural interacti...
Ben J. A. Kröse, Josep M. Porta, Albert J. N....
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
137views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
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Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle
SAC
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
ARCHITECT-R: A System for Reconfigurable Robots Design
An increasing interest in the design of mobile robots has been observed in recent years, which is mainly motivated by technological advances that may allow their application to co...
R. A. Gonçalves, P. A. Moraes, João ...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Motion planning for a crowd of robots
- Moving a crowd of robots or avatars from their current configurations to some destination area without causing collisions is a challenging motion-planning problem because the hig...
Tsai-Yen Li, Hsu-Chi Chou