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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Multi-robot System for Continuous Area Sweeping Tasks
— As mobile robots become increasingly autonomous over extended periods of time, opportunities arise for their use on repetitive tasks. We define and implement behaviors for a c...
Mazda Ahmadi, Peter Stone
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Ganging up: Team-based Aggression Expands the Population/Performance Envelope in a Multi-robot System
— We examine a team of robots with no centralized control performing a transportation task in which robots frequently interfere with each other, thus impairing overall team’s p...
Yinan Zhang, Richard T. Vaughan
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks
— Mobile robots have successfully solved many real world problems. In the following we present the use of mobile robots to address the novel and challenging problem of providing ...
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, Brian Neil Levine
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Distributed Coverage with Multi-robot System
– In this paper, we proposed an improved algorithm for the multi-robot complete coverage problem. Real world applications such as lawn mowing, chemical spill clean-up, and humani...
Chan Sze Kong, Ai Peng New, Ioannis M. Rekleitis
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Speeding-up Multi-robot Exploration by Considering Semantic Place Information
— In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. One of the key issues in multi-robot exploration is how to assign targe...
Cyrill Stachniss, Óscar Martínez Moz...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Dynamically formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-coordinated Tasks
— As we progress towards a world where robots play an integral role in society, a critical problem that remains to be solved is the Pickup Team Challenge; that is, dynamically fo...
Edward Gil Jones, Brett Browning, M. Bernardine Di...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Multimode Locomotion via SuperBot Robots
– This paper presents a modular and reconfigurable robot for multiple locomotion modes based on reconfigurable modules. Each mode consists of characteristics for the environment ...
Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Ev...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Geckobot: a Gecko Inspired Climbing Robot using Elastomer Adhesives
— In this paper, the design, analysis, and fabrication of a gecko-inspired climbing robot are discussed. The robot has kinematics similar to a gecko’s climbing gait. It uses pe...
Ozgur Unver, Ali Uneri, Alper Aydemir, Metin Sitti
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue Robotics
— The dangerous and time sensitive nature of a disaster area makes it an ideal application for robotic exploration. Our long term goal is to enable humans, software agents, and a...
Mary Koes, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Katia P. Sycara
ICDCSW
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CoCoA: Coordinated Cooperative Localization for Mobile Multi-Robot Ad Hoc Networks
Mobile robot teams are particularly suited to applications where infrastructure is unavailable or damaged since they can be used to quickly form an infrastructure-less mobile ad h...
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charl...