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The Swarmathon: An Autonomous Swarm Robotics Competition
Sarah M. Ackerman, G. Matthew Fricke, Joshua P. Hecker +7
The Swarmathon is a swarm robotics programming challenge that engages college students from minority-serving institutions in NASA's Journey to Mars. Teams compete by programming a…
A Scalable and Adaptable Multiple-Place Foraging Algorithm for Ant-Inspired Robot Swarms
Qi Lu, Melanie E. Moses, Joshua P. Hecker
Individual robots are not effective at exploring large unmapped areas. An alternate approach is to use a swarm of simple robots that work together, rather than a single highly capa…
A Multi-Agent System Approach to Load-Balancing and Resource Allocation for Distributed Computing
Soumya Banerjee, Joshua Hecker
In this research we use a decentralized computing approach to allocate and schedule tasks on a massively distributed grid. Using emergent properties of multi-agent systems, the alg…
Exploiting Heterogeneous Robotic Systems in Cooperative Missions
Nicola Bezzo, Joshua P. Hecker, Karl Stolleis +2
In this paper we consider the problem of coordinating robotic systems with different kinematics, sensing and vision capabilities to achieve certain mission goals. An approach that…