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Physical Simulation for Multi-agent Multi-machine Tending
Abdalwhab Abdalwhab, Giovanni Beltrame, David St-Onge
The manufacturing sector was recently affected by workforce shortages, a problem that automation and robotics can heavily minimize. Simultaneously, reinforcement learning (RL) offe…
Multi-Objective Risk Assessment Framework for Exploration Planning Using Terrain and Traversability Analysis
Riana Gagnon Souleiman, Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, Giovanni Beltrame
Exploration of unknown, unstructured environments, such as in search and rescue, cave exploration, and planetary missions,presents significant challenges due to their unpredictable…
Learning Multi-agent Multi-machine Tending by Mobile Robots
Abdalwhab Abdalwhab, Giovanni Beltrame, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou +1
Robotics can help address the growing worker shortage challenge of the manufacturing industry. As such, machine tending is a task collaborative robots can tackle that can also high…
From the Lab to the Theater: An Unconventional Field Robotics Journey
Ali Imran, Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, Rafael Gomes Braga +6
Artistic performances involving robotic systems present unique technical challenges akin to those encountered in other field deployments. In this paper, we delve into the orchestra…