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Recent advances in Distributed Computing highlight models and algorithms for autonomous swarms of mobile robots that self-organize and cooperate to solve global objectives. The overwhelming majority of works so far considers handmade algorithms and correctness proofs. This paper is the first to propose a formal framework to automatically design distributed algorithms that are dedicated to auton...

This paper describes the joint approach of three research groups to enable a heterogeneous team of robots to exchange belief. The communication framework presented imposes little restrictions on the design and implementation of the individual autonomous mobile systems. The three groups have individually taken part in the RoboCup F2000 league since 1998. Although recent rule changes allow for mo...

Robots need autonomous navigation to complete their tasks efficiently. This becomes more challenging in GPS-denied environments where positioning information is not available. For small flying robots and quadrotors, inherent limitations such as limited sensor payload and small system time-constant add another layer of challenge to the problem. This paper presents a solution for autonomous navig...

The popularity of autonomous mobile robots have been rapidly increasing due to their new emerging application areas, from room cleaning, tourist guidance to space explorations. However, the development of a satisfactory control algorithm that will enable the autonomous mobile robots to navigate safely especially in dynamic environments is still an open research problem. In this paper, a newly p...

A survey of blackboard robotics applications shows the improvements of blackboard models used in telerobotics and autonomous robots from the use of sequential blackboard in the robotics planning. But an on-board controller for autonomous robots requires improvements in reactivity and real time eficiency. W e present a real t ime computing model with specific features to guarantee a satisfactory...

Future autonomous robots will likely encounter situations in which humans end up commanding the robots to perform tasks that robot ought to object. A previous study showed that robot appearance does not seem to affect human receptiveness to robot protest produced in response to inappropriate human commands. However, this previous work used robots that communicate the objection to the human in s...

The problem of coordinating a set of autonomous, mobile robots for cooperatively performing a task has been studied extensively over the past decade. These studies assume a set of autonomous, anonymous, oblivious robots. A task for such robots is to form an arbitrary pattern in the two dimensional plane. This task is fundamental in the sense that if the robots can form any pattern, they can agr...

The recent upsurge in interest in autonomous robots for combat applications has focused considerable attention on several of the obvious technical issues (e.g, target recognition, autonomous navigation, route planning). However, several technical issues exist which remain unapproached and, in some cases, even unacknowledged by the robotics community. This paper explores three such issues: (1) r...

are turned upside down by innovations. The years of research on robotics and multiagent systems are coming together to provide just such a disruption to the material-handling industry. While autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) have been used to move material within warehouses since the 1950s, they have been used primarily to transport very large, very heavy objects like rolls of uncut paper or en...