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IROS
2008
IEEE
172views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene
GECCO
2010
Springer
180views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
Coevolution of heterogeneous multi-robot teams
Evolving multiple robots so that each robot acting independently can contribute to the maximization of a system level objective presents significant scientific challenges. For e...
Matt Knudson, Kagan Tumer
HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
How search and its subtasks scale in N robots
The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Participants co...
Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Prasanna Velagapudi, ...
IROS
2006
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Hardware-in-the-loop Test Rig to Capture Aerial Robot and Sensor Suite Performance Metrics
Fully autonomous aerial robots are needed to accomplish near-Earth missions such as search and rescue, and bio-chemical sensing. Recent advances in sensor technologies ([6], [8], ...
Vefa Narli, Paul Y. Oh
ICRA
2003
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 2 months ago
Autonomous feature-based exploration
: The performance of single-camera SLAM is improved when wide-angle optics provide a field of view greater than the 40 to 50 degrees lenses normally used in computer vision. The is...
Paul M. Newman, Michael Bosse, John J. Leonard