The Kiva warehouse management system creates a new paradigm for pick-pack-and-ship warehouses that significantly improves worker productivity. The Kiva system uses movable storag...
We propose a novel approach to service choreography through a typed process calculus that features an event notification paradigm for coordinating distributed components (e.g., se...
This paper studies connectivity maintenance in robotic networks. We propose a distributed coordination algorithm that can be combined with the individual motion control strategies ...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
Abstract--The key to utilizing the potential of multirobot systems is cooperation. How can we achieve cooperation in systems composed of failure-prone autonomous robots operating i...