—Though the final goal of mobile robot navigation is to be autonomous, operators’ intelligent and skillful decisions are necessary when there are many scattered obstacles. Ther...
When a distributed robotic system is assigned to perform reconnaissance or surveillance, restrictions inherent to the design of an individual robot limit the system’s performanc...
Andrew Drenner, Ian T. Burt, Tom Dahlin, Bradley K...
A new field of robotics is emerging. Robots are today moving towards applications beyond the structured environment of a manufacturing plant. They are making their way into the e...
Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, K. C. Chang, Diego C...
We address the fundamental issue of fully automated design (FAD) and construction of inexpensive robots and their controllers. Rather than seek an intelligent general purpose robo...
Jordan B. Pollack, Hod Lipson, Pablo Funes, Sevan ...
Online trajectory generation for robots with multiple degrees of freedom is still a difficult and unsolved problem, in particular for non-steady state locomotion, that is, when th...