We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
In prior work we established how physicomimetics can be used to self-organize hexagonal and square lattice formations of mobile robots. In this paper we extend the framework to mo...
William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, D...
For mobile robots to be successful, they have to navigate safely in populated and dynamic environments. While recent research has led to a variety of localization methods that can...
Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun, Armi...
The paper presents the Multi Agent System (MAS) designed for the large scale parallel computations. The special kind of diffusionbased scheduling enables to decompose and allocate...
Maciej Smolka, Piotr Uhruski, Robert Schaefer, Mar...
The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices has led to an explosion in the development of applications tailored to the particular needs of individual users. As the research communit...