Recent advances in Distributed Computing highlight models and algorithms for autonomous swarms of mobile robots that self-organise and cooperate to solve global objectives. The overwhelming majority of works so far considers handmade algorithms and proofs of correctness. This paper builds upon a previously proposed formal framework to certify the correctness of impossibility results regarding d...

Autonomous robots, which perform tasks without human operators, are required in many fields. The autonomous robots have to carry out tasks in various environments by themselves like human beings. They have to be intelligent to determine their own actions in unknown environments by themselves based on sensory information. In advance, human operators can give the robots their knowledge and skill ...

Social potential fields: A distributed behavioral control for autonomous robots* John H. Reif*, Hongyan Wang I Department of Computer Science, Box 90129, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129, USA A Very Large Scale Robotic (VLSR) system may consist of from hundreds to perhaps tens of thousands or more autonomous robots. The costs of robots are going down, and the robots are getting more compa...

The coordinated motion of a group of autonomous mobile robots for the achievement of a coordinated task has received significant research interest in the last decade. Avoiding the collisions of the robots with the obstacles and other members of the group is one of the main problems in the area as previous studies have revealed. Substantial amount of research effort has been concentrated on defi...

Domestic service robots are envisioned to provide assistance to persons in need of help with their activities of daily living. These tasks require a comprehensive set of perception, control, and planning skills—beyond the state of the art of autonomous robots. On the other hand, direct control of complex robots requires special equipment and the full attention of the operator. Hence, it is nece...

This paper deals with coordinating behaviour in a multi-autonomous robot system. When two or more autonomous robots must interact in order to accomplish some common goal, communication between the robots is essential. Di erent inter-robot communications strategies give rise to di erent overall system performance and reliability. After a brief consideration of some theoretical approaches to mult...

Increasingly, innovations in miniaturization and embedded systems are making pervasive computing a reality. Meanwhile, similar advancements in robotics have made autonomous mobile robots easier to develop and more cost-efficient. However, since the field of ubiquitous robotics remains relatively unexplored, we develop SMARbot (Stevens Modular Autonomous Robot), as a tool to explore the pervasiv...

Autonomous mobile robots have been extensively studied not only as an element of industrial and home automation, but also as a test bed in Robocup competitions to academically establish the achievement of artificial intelligence. One of the essential and critical research areas in autonomous robotics is the learning ability which supports robots to autonomously navigate and adapt to a given env...

This paper describes an autonomous robot football team. The work is being carried out since 1998. It describes the hardware used by the robots, the sensory system and interfaces, as well as the game strategy. Data acquisition for the perception level is carried out by the vision system, and the image processing system is described. Two cameras are used requiring sensorial fusion. With this arch...

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots in an uncertain and complex environment is a broad and complicated issue due to a variety of obstacles that mobile robots have to detect and represent in their maps to navigate safely. The objective of the navigation-mobile robot is to obtain an optimum path, meaning that the robot should plan a reliable path between the source point and the target point w...