Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 A Probabilistic Topological Approach to Feature Identification Using a Stochastic Robotic Swarm  (Ragesh K. Ramachandran, Sean Wilson, Spring Berman)....Pages 3-16
 Communication-Restricted Exploration for Search Teams  (Elizabeth A. Jensen, London Lowmanstone, Maria Gini)....Pages 17-30
 From Ants to Birds: A Novel Bio-Inspired Approach to Online Area Coverage  (Luca Giuggioli, Idan Arye, Alexandro Heiblum Robles, Gal A. Kaminka)....Pages 31-43
 Information Based Exploration with Panoramas and Angle Occupancy Grids  (Daniel Mox, Anthony Cowley, M. Ani Hsieh, C. J. Taylor)....Pages 45-58
 Multirobot Persistent Patrolling in Communication-Restricted Environments  (Marta Romeo, Jacopo Banfi, Nicola Basilico, Francesco Amigoni)....Pages 59-71
Front Matter ....Pages 73-73
 A Comparative Study of Collision Avoidance Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Robustness to Noise  (Steven Roelofsen, Denis Gillet, Alcherio Martinoli)....Pages 75-88
 A Decentralized Control Strategy for Resilient Connectivity Maintenance in Multi-robot Systems Subject to Failures  (Cinara Ghedini, Carlos H. C. Ribeiro, Lorenzo Sabattini)....Pages 89-102
 Chase Your Farthest Neighbour  (Rotem Manor, Alfred M. Bruckstein)....Pages 103-116
 OuijaBots: Omnidirectional Robots for Cooperative Object Transport with Rotation Control Using No Communication  (Zijian Wang, Guang Yang, Xuanshuo Su, Mac Schwager)....Pages 117-131
 Persistent Multi-robot Formations with Redundancy  (Alyxander Burns, Bernd Schulze, Audrey St. John)....Pages 133-146
 Triangular Networks for Resilient Formations  (David Saldaña, Amanda Prorok, Mario F. M. Campos, Vijay Kumar)....Pages 147-159
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
 Construction of Optimal Control Graphs in Multi-robot Systems  (Gal A. Kaminka, Ilan Lupu, Noa Agmon)....Pages 163-175
 Decision-Making Accuracy for Sensor Networks with Inhomogeneous Poisson Observations  (Chetan D. Pahlajani, Indrajeet Yadav, Herbert G. Tanner, Ioannis Poulakakis)....Pages 177-190
 Distributed Laplacian Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Estimation in Multi-robot Systems  (Mehran Zareh, Lorenzo Sabattini, Cristian Secchi)....Pages 191-204
 Distributed Object Characterization with Local Sensing by a Multi-robot System  (Golnaz Habibi, Sándor P. Fekete, Zachary Kingston, James McLurkin)....Pages 205-218
 Optical Wireless Communications for Heterogeneous DARS  (Patricio J. Cruz, Christoph Hintz, Jonathan West, Rafael Fierro)....Pages 219-233
Front Matter ....Pages 235-235
 Bundling Policies for Sequential Stochastic Tasks in Multi-robot Systems  (Changjoo Nam, Dylan A. Shell)....Pages 237-252
 Decomposition of Finite LTL Specifications for Efficient Multi-agent Planning  (Philipp Schillinger, Mathias Bürger, Dimos V. Dimarogonas)....Pages 253-267
 Informative Path Planning and Mapping with Multiple UAVs in Wind Fields  (Doo-Hyun Cho, Jung-Su Ha, Sujin Lee, Sunghyun Moon, Han-Lim Choi)....Pages 269-283
 Multi-robot Informative and Adaptive Planning for Persistent Environmental Monitoring  (Kai-Chieh Ma, Zhibei Ma, Lantao Liu, Gaurav S. Sukhatme)....Pages 285-298
 The Effectiveness Index Intrinsic Reward for Coordinating Service Robots  (Yinon Douchan, Gal A. Kaminka)....Pages 299-311
 United We Move: Decentralized Segregated Robotic Swarm Navigation  (Fabrício R. Inácio, Douglas G. Macharet, Luiz Chaimowicz)....Pages 313-326
Front Matter ....Pages 327-327
 A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-assembly of Robotic Modules  (Bahar Haghighat, Alcherio Martinoli)....Pages 329-343
 Distributed Adaptive Locomotion Learning in ModRED Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot  (Ayan Dutta, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Carl Nelson)....Pages 345-357
 Distributed Camouflage for Swarm Robotics and Smart Materials  (Yang Li, John Klingner, Nikolaus Correll)....Pages 359-371
 Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms  (Juan A. Escalera, Matthew J. Doyle, Francesco Mondada, Roderich Groß)....Pages 373-385
 Geometrical Study of a Quasi-spherical Module for Building Programmable Matter  (Benoît Piranda, Julien Bourgeois)....Pages 387-400
 HyMod: A 3-DOF Hybrid Mobile and Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot and its Extensions  (Christopher Parrott, Tony J. Dodd, Roderich Groß)....Pages 401-414
 Network Characterization of Lattice-Based Modular Robots with Neighbor-to-Neighbor Communications  (André Naz, Benoît Piranda, Thadeu Tucci, Seth Copen Goldstein, Julien Bourgeois)....Pages 415-429
Front Matter ....Pages 431-431
 Decentralized Progressive Shape Formation with Robot Swarms  (Carlo Pinciroli, Andrea Gasparri, Emanuele Garone, Giovanni Beltrame)....Pages 433-445
 Discovery and Exploration of Novel Swarm Behaviors Given Limited Robot Capabilities  (Daniel S. Brown, Ryan Turner, Oliver Hennigh, Steven Loscalzo)....Pages 447-460
 Effects of Spatiality on Value-Sensitive Decisions Made by Robot Swarms  (Andreagiovanni Reina, Thomas Bose, Vito Trianni, James A. R. Marshall)....Pages 461-473
 Emergence and Inhibition of Synchronization in Robot Swarms  (Fernando Perez-Diaz, Stefan M. Trenkwalder, Rüdiger Zillmer, Roderich Groß)....Pages 475-486
 Evolving Behaviour Trees for Swarm Robotics  (Simon Jones, Matthew Studley, Sabine Hauert, Alan Winfield)....Pages 487-501
 Evolving Group Transport Strategies for e-Puck Robots: Moving Objects Towards a Target Area  (Muhanad H. Mohammed Alkilabi, Aparajit Narayan, Chuan Lu, Elio Tuci)....Pages 503-516
 From Formalised State Machines to Implementations of Robotic Controllers  (Wei Li, Alvaro Miyazawa, Pedro Ribeiro, Ana Cavalcanti, Jim Woodcock, Jon Timmis)....Pages 517-529
 Human Responses to Stimuli Produced by Robot Swarms - the Effect of the Reality-Gap on Psychological State  (Gaëtan Podevijn, Rehan O’Grady, Carole Fantini-Hauwel, Marco Dorigo)....Pages 531-543
 Localization of Inexpensive Robots with Low-Bandwidth Sensors  (Shiling Wang, Francis Colas, Ming Liu, Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat)....Pages 545-558
 Modelling Mood in Co-operative Emotional Agents  (Joe Collenette, Katie Atkinson, Daan Bloembergen, Karl Tuyls)....Pages 559-572
 Programmable Self-disassembly for Shape Formation in Large-Scale Robot Collectives  (Melvin Gauci, Radhika Nagpal, Michael Rubenstein)....Pages 573-586
 Towards Differentially Private Aggregation of Heterogeneous Robots  (Amanda Prorok, Vijay Kumar)....Pages 587-601
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 Construction Planning for a Modularized Rail Structure: Type Selection of Rail Structure Modules and Dispatch Planning of Constructor Robots  (Rui Fukui, Yuta Kato, Gen Kanayama, Ryo Takahashi, Masayuki Nakao)....Pages 605-617
 Distributed Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition in Wearable Robotics  (Dana Hughes, Nikolaus Correll)....Pages 619-631
 Formation Control of a Drifting Group of Marine Robotic Vehicles  (Nicholas R. Rypkema, Henrik Schmidt)....Pages 633-647
 Multi-swarm Infrastructure for Swarm Versus Swarm Experimentation  (Duane T. Davis, Timothy H. Chung, Michael R. Clement, Michael A. Day)....Pages 649-663
 Robust Coordinated Aerial Deployments for Theatrical Applications Given Online User Interaction via Behavior Composition  (Ellen A. Cappo, Arjav Desai, Nathan Michael)....Pages 665-678
 Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring  (Felix Schill, Alexander Bahr, Alcherio Martinoli)....Pages 679-693
Back Matter ....Pages 695-697