We analyze the conditions for agency in natural and artificial systems. In the case of basic (natural) autonomous systems, self-construction and activity in the environment are two...
Design ECO commonly happens in industry due to constraints or target changes from manufacturing, marketing, reliability, or performance. At each step, designers usually want to mo...
Abstract— This paper addresses a novel approach to the nvehicle collision avoidance problem. The vehicle model used is a planar unicycle, chosen for its wide applicability to gro...
The MAV '08 competition focused on the problem of using air and ground vehicles to locate and rescue hostages being held in a remote building. To execute this mission, a numbe...
Ruijie He, Abraham Bachrach, Michael Achtelik, Alb...
For a system of cooperative mobile robots to be effective in real-world applications, it must be able to efficiently execute a wide class of complex tasks in potentially unknown a...