TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We consider the problem of having a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) pursue a second team of evaders while concurrently building a map in a...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper, we study the interconnection of two robots, which are modeled as port-controlled Hamiltonian systems through a transmission line with time delay. There will be no an...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Abstract-We study the problem of achieving global behavior in a group of distributed robots using only local sensing and minimal communication, in the context of formations. The go...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Given an arbitrary Petri net (PN) structure, which may have uncontrollable and unobservable transitions, the deadlock prevention procedure presented here determines a set of linear...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper, we present a new approach to the problem of simultaneously localizing a group of mobile robots capable of sensing one another. Each of the robots collects sensor dat...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper presents a new type of haptic device using spherical geometry. The basic idea of haptic devices is to provide users with feedback information on the motion and/or force ...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
A patent pending, energy based, method is presented for controlling a haptic interface system to ensure stable contract under a wide variety of operating conditions. System stabil...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper presents the mobility augmentation method to provide omnidirectional mobility to nonomnidirectional wheeled bases. First, the kinematic model of a nonomnidirectional whe...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Abstract-- This paper presents a framework for visual servoing that guarantees convergence to a visible goal from almost every initially visible configuration while maintaining ful...
TROB
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Abstract--Continuum manipulators, inspired by the natural capabilities of elephant trunks and octopus tentacles, may find niche applications in areas like human