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Autonomous mobile robots can track a person’s location, provide contextually appropriate information and act in response to spoken commands. These robots are designed for social interaction and therefore it is......
Yoshida’s paper addresses a reconfiguration planning method for locomotion of a homogeneous modular robotic system. The experiment is to verify that the planned locomotion can be realized by hardware. The......
William’s paper discusses an approach to autonomous navigation for an undersea vehicle that uses information from a scanning sonar to generate navigation estimates based on a simultaneous localization and mapping......
Kube’s paper discusses the model of ants and how the workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. The robotic system demonstrated shows how a decentralized problem-solving by a group of robots......
Werger’s paper discusses that a strict behavior-based approach can scale to higher levels of complexity than many robotics researchers assume and that the resulting systems are in many cases more......
Gerkey’s paper addresses the issue faced with multi-robot task allocation (MRTA). The complexity of multi-robot systems has two primary sources: larger team sizes and greater heterogeneity of robots and tasks.......
Stone’s paper discusses the periodic team synchronization (PTS) domains as time-critical environments in which agents act autonomously with low communication, but in which they can periodically synchronize in a full-communication......
Desai’s and Yanco’s paper discusses a sliding scale autonomy system that allows autonomy levels to be created and changed on the fly. This paper specifically addresses the how the level......
Clough’s paper addresses advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) autonomy in terms of autonomous control levels. The paper specifically addresses the issue of how to quantitatively analyze or gather metrics......
Goodrich’s paper discusses a design of a human-robot system with adjustable autonomy and describes not only the prototype interface but also the corresponding robot behaviors. The research is focused on......