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NCA
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Composable continuous-space programs for robotic swarms
Programmability is an increasingly important barrier to the deployment of multi-robot systems, as no prior approach allows routine composition and reuse of general aggregate behavi...
Jonathan Bachrach, Jacob Beal, James McLurkin
JIRS
1998
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13 years 11 months ago
Path Planning and Control of a Cooperative Three-Robot System Manipulating Large Objects
After a brief review of the current research on multi-robot systems, the paper presents a path planning and control scheme for a cooperative three-robot system transferring/manipul...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Platon A. Prokopiou, Spyros G...
SCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Using Situated Communication in Distributed Autonomous Mobile Robotics
When using communication in multi-robot systems it's often not desirable to choose an form of communication that separates the messages from the physical environment in which...
Kasper Støy
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
A Distributed Method for Evaluating Properties of a Robot Formation
As a robot formation increases in size or explores places where it is difficult for a human operator to interact, autonomous control becomes critical. We propose a distributed aut...
Brent Beer, Ross Alan Mead, Jerry B. Weinberg
CIG
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Survey on Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Towards Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract- Multiagent reinforcement learning for multirobot systems is a challenging issue in both robotics and artificial intelligence. With the ever increasing interests in theor...
Erfu Yang, Dongbing Gu
GECCO
2003
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Multi-agent Learning of Heterogeneous Robots by Evolutionary Subsumption
Abstract. Many multi-robot systems are heterogeneous cooperative systems, systems consisting of different species of robots cooperating with each other to achieve a common goal. T...
Hongwei Liu, Hitoshi Iba
ICRA
2005
IEEE
137views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Opportunity Costs in Multi-Robot Market Based Planners
— Direct human control of multi-robot systems is limited by the cognitive ability of humans to coordinate numerous interacting components. In remote environments, such as those e...
Jeff G. Schneider, David Apfelbaum, Drew Bagnell, ...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
DSAAR: A Distributed Software Architecture for Autonomous Robots
— This paper describes the DSAAR architecture, which aims the fast development and prototyping of multi-robot systems and it is based on Linux inter-process communication (IPC) m...
Pedro F. Santana, Vasco Santos, José Barata
ICRA
2007
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
The Cost of Reality: Effects of Real-World Factors on Multi-Robot Search
— Designing algorithms for multi-robot systems can be a complex and difficult process: the cost of such systems can be very high, collecting experimental data can be timeconsumi...
Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli
SASO
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Robust Audit Mechanism to Prevent Malicious Behaviors in Multi-robot Systems
Market-based mechanisms can be used to coordinate self-interested multi-robot systems in fully distributed environments, where by self-interested we mean that each robot agent att...
MyungJoo Ham, Gul A. Agha