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HRI
2006
ACM
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Effects of adaptive robot dialogue on information exchange and social relations
Human-robot interaction could be improved by designing robots that engage in adaptive dialogue with users. An adaptive robot could estimate the information needs of individuals an...
Cristen Torrey, Aaron Powers, Matthew Marge, Susan...
SUTC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
TARANTULAS: Mobility-enhanced Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks
Amidst the numerous active research efforts in wireless sensor networks which aim to push beyond the limits, we aim to significantly enhance the effectiveness of wireless sensors ...
Winston Khoon Guan Seah, Kevin Z. Liu, Marcelo H. ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Multi-robot Aggregation Strategies with Limited Communication
– The limited power, low radio range, and an ever changing environment make the ability to explicitly communicate between multi-robots decreases in a searching task. When this ha...
Yan Meng, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Jing Gan
IROS
2006
IEEE
82views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Mission Reliability Estimation for Multirobot Team Design
 One reason given for the use of multirobot systems is that many cheap robots are more reliable than one expensive robot. To date, however, there has been no quantitative analys...
S. B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, Ashitey Trebi-Olle...
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Multi-robot SLAM with Unknown Initial Correspondence: The Robot Rendezvous Case
Abstract— This paper presents a new approach to the multirobot map-alignment problem that enables teams of robots to build joint maps without initial knowledge of their relative ...
Xun S. Zhou, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
IROS
2006
IEEE
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Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Localization in Unknown 3D Space
— This paper presents a self-localization strategy for a team of heterogenous mobile robots, including ground mobile robots of various sizes and wall-climbing robots. These robot...
Yi Feng 0002, Zhigang Zhu, Jizhong Xiao
IROS
2006
IEEE
112views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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A Novel Water Running Robot Inspired by Basilisk Lizards
— This paper introduces a novel robot which can run on the surface of water in a manner similar to basilisk lizards. Previous studies on the lizards themselves have characterized...
Steven Floyd, Terence Keegan, John Palmisano, Meti...
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative Transportation by Multiple Mobile Manipulators using Adaptive NN Control
— It is a challenging task for multiple robots working together to realize object transportation. This paper studies a practical situation that a group of mobile manipulators are...
Xin Chen, Yangmin Li
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Using a Qualitative Sketch to Control a Team of Robots
– In this paper, we describe a prototype interface that facilitates the control of a mobile robot team by a single operator, using a sketch interface on a tablet PC. The user ske...
Marjorie Skubic, Derek Anderson, Samuel Blisard, D...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Pattern Generation with Multiple Robots
— We develop decentralized controllers for a swarm of robots to generate a desired two-dimensional geometric pattern specified by a smooth function while maintaining specified ...
Mong-ying A. Hsieh, Vijay Kumar