being one of the major research fields in the robotics discipline, the robot motion planning problem deals with finding an obstacle-free start-to-goal path for a robot navigating among workspace obstacles. such a problem is also encountered in path planning of intelligent vehicles and automatic guided vehicles (agvs). traditional (exact) algorithms have failed to solve the problem effectively s...

Control graphs are used in multi-robot systems to maintain information about which robot senses another robot, and at what position. Control graphs allow robots to localize relative to others, and maintain stable formations. Previous work makes two critical assumptions. First, it assumes edge weights of control graphs are deterministic scalars, while in reality they represent complex stochastic...

Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Advanced manufacturing technologies provide a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. Proper decision making in pre-implement and implementation of Robot technology as one of the types of AMT plays an importa...