4 papers
NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell +69
This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARP…
MSL-RAPTOR: A 6DoF Relative Pose Tracker for Onboard Robotic Perception
Benjamin Ramtoula, Adam Caccavale, Giovanni Beltrame +1
Determining the relative position and orientation of objects in an environment is a fundamental building block for a wide range of robotics applications. To accomplish this task ef…
CAPRICORN: Communication Aware Place Recognition using Interpretable Constellations of Objects in Robot Networks
Benjamin Ramtoula, Ricardo de Azambuja, Giovanni Beltrame
Using multiple robots for exploring and mapping environments can provide improved robustness and performance, but it can be difficult to implement. In particular, limited communica…
Decentralized Connectivity Control in Quadcopters: a Field Study of Communication Performance
Jacopo Panerati, Benjamin Ramtoula, David St-Onge +5
Redundancy and parallelism make decentralized multi-robot systems appealing solutions for the exploration of extreme environments. However, effective cooperation often requires tea…