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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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The OmniTread OT-4 serpentine robot
Serpentine robots are slender, multi-segmented vehicles designed to provide greater mobility than conventional mobile robots. Serpentine robots are ideally suited for urban search...
Johann Borenstein, Adam Borrell
IROS
2008
IEEE
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A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
HRI
2006
ACM
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Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
GECCO
2005
Springer
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Autonomous navigation system applied to collective robotics with ant-inspired communication
Research in collective robotics is motivated mainly by the possibility of achieving an efficient solution to multi-objective navigation tasks when multiple robots are employed, in...
Renato Reder Cazangi, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Maur&...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Mobile Robot Self-Localization in Large-Scale Environments
— This paper presents a new approach for the absolute self-localization of a mobile robot in structured large-scale environments. The requirements with regard to both, the necess...
Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer