4 papers
Online Multi-Robot Coordination and Cooperation with Task Precedence Relationships
Walker Gosrich, Saurav Agarwal, Kashish Garg +4
We propose a new formulation for the multi-robot task allocation problem that incorporates (a) complex precedence relationships between tasks, (b) efficient intra-task coordination…
Exploring environment exploitation for self-reconfiguration in modular robotics
Philippe Martin Wyder, Haorui Li, Andrew Bae +2
Modular robotics research has long been preoccupied with perfecting the modules themselves -- their actuation methods, connectors, controls, communication, and fabrication. This in…
Real-time Two-tape Control System in Vine robots
Hanmo Liu, Kayleen Smith, Zimu Yang +1
This paper focuses on how to make a growing Vine robot steer in different directions with a novel approach to real-time steering control by autonomously applying adhesive tape to i…
Continuous Sculpting: Persistent Swarm Shape Formation Adaptable to Local Environmental Changes
Andrew G. Curtis, Mark Yim, Michael Rubenstein
Despite their growing popularity, swarms of robots remain limited by the operating time of each individual. We present algorithms which allow a human to sculpt a swarm of robots in…