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The rising food prices in recent years leads to the cascading effect on the entire Indian economy. India cannot dream about two digit growth rate unless the revitalization of the agriculture sector. The shackled rural economy will be... more
Miniaturization and cost, two of the main attractive factors of swarm robotics, have motivated its use as a solution in object collecting tasks, search & rescue missions, and other applications. However, in the current literature only a... more
In this paper, a team of identical mobile robots were used to perform a search technique in order to find a stationary object. Considering search time minimization, the search procedures is maintained until the object is found. During the... more
In general, a mobile robot that operates in unknown environments has to maintain a map and has to determine its own location given the map. This introduces significant computational and memory constraints for most autonomous systems,... more
The pharmaceutical landscape is undergoing a transformative revolution through the integration of automation and robotics, which offer significant improvements in precision, efficiency, and patient care. This research aims to highlight... more
Route optimization for autonomous container truck is one of the key problems to realize the automatic container port. An environment model for container truck is built by grid method. Considering the complex and unknown construction... more
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Contrasted to a single pusher boat maneuvering a barge, the use of multiple pusher boats may increase the maneuverability and consequently the safety of operation. This include maneuvering in narrow channels or regions with draft... more
This paper reviews the current development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for the application area of robot communication. The study of the control and operation of multiple robots collaboratively toward a common goal is fast... more
This paper addresses an integrated rack assignment and robot routing problem arising in robotic movable fulfillment systems (RMFS). This NP-hard planning task goes beyond current literature by simultaneously optimizing movable rack... more
The intelligent control system is a software-hardware system that achieves a differentiation of crop plants from the weeds and after that it destroys the weed. It is based on two intelligent cameras. Each camera surveys two rows of... more
Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) is a new concept introduced for the first time by ABI Research. Unlike the Internet of Things (IoT), IoRT provides an active sensorization and is considered as the new evolution of IoT. In this context,... more
In this work, we develop a computational framework for fully automatic deployment of a team of unicycles from a global specification given as an LTL formula over some regions of interest. Our hierarchical approach consists of four steps:... more
Coordination strategy is a relevant topic in multi-robot systems, and robot soccer offers a suitable domain to conduct research in multi-robot coordination. Team strategy collects and uses environmental information to derive optimal team... more
Automatic cruise control of a platoon of multiple connected vehicles in an automated highway system has drawn significant attention of the control practitioners over the past two decades due to its ability to reduce traffic congestion... more
As part of the DARPA Software for Distributed Robotics Program, SRI International, Stanford University, the University of Washington, and ActivMedia Robotics are designing and implementing a computational framework for the coordination of... more
Recent multi-robot exploration algorithms usually rely on occupancy grids as their core world representation. However, those grids are not appropriate for environments that are very large or whose boundaries are not well delimited from... more
NASA's Vision for Space Exploration calls for an extended human presence in space and development of large-scale orbital structures. To reduce risk, it is essential to minimize astronaut exposure by limiting EVA and providing habitat... more
A robotic gym with multiple rehabilitation robots allows multiple patients to exercise simultaneously under the supervision of a single therapist. The multi-patient training outcome can potentially be improved by dynamically assigning... more
A robotic gym equipped with several rehabilitation robots enables multiple patients to engage in simultaneous exercise, all overseen by one therapist. The effectiveness of multipatient training could potentially be enhanced by dynamically... more
The design of the multi-robot system for distributed sensing and gradient climbing focuses on the capability to optimize the performance of tasks simultaneously. The strategy is to utilize the cluster's redundancy and flexibility to gain... more
The design of the multi-robot system for distributed sensing and gradient climbing focuses on the capability to optimize the performance of tasks simultaneously. The strategy is to utilize the cluster’s redundancy and flexibility to gain... more
Robot soccer is one of the major domains for studying the coordination of multi-robot teams. Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (Dec-POMDP) is a recent mathematical framework which has been used to model... more
This work proposes a novel approach for introducing market-driven strategy to robot soccer domain in order to solve vital issues related to multiagent coordination. In robot soccer, two teams of robots compete with each other to win the... more
For succesful accomplishment the top-level goal of a multirobot team should be decomposed into a sequence of sub-goals and proper sequences of actions for achieving these subgoals should be selected and refined through execution.... more
Robot soccer is one of the major domains for studying the coordination of multi-robot teams. Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (Dec-POMDP) is a recent mathematical framework which has been used to model... more
Well-developed individual and collaborative skills, such as dribbling the ball, positioning, and passing are required for a team of robots to be successful against an opponent team in a robot soccer scenario. This paper proposes an... more
In this paper we analyze and compare several tools of robot simulation. The conducted analysis is aimed to provide a background for choosing the right simulation tool to be integrated into the VIPRO platform which is needed for virtual... more
This article addresses the problem of autonomous map building and exploration of an unknown environment with mobile robots. The proposed method assumes that mobile robots use occupancy grid maps as the main representation model for the... more
Multi-agent perimeter surveillance is an active area of research for robotics and autonomous systems. Efficient surveillance of large or complex perimeter boundaries requires distributed coordination algorithms for teams of agents.... more
Model-based synthesis allows to generate controllers that achieve high-level tasks while satisfying certain properties of interest. However, when controllers are executed on concrete systems, several modeling assumptions may be... more
This paper presents a motion coordination strategy based on a hierarchical control architecture for a flexible manufacturing cell equipped with automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The AGV's transport raw material among different... more
This paper presents a motion coordination strategy based on a hierarchical control architecture for a flexible manufacturing cell equipped with automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The AGV's transport raw material among different... more
The potential benefits of digital transformation for manufacturing companies include reduced costs, increased interconnectedness, and improved adaptability. Semantic Web technologies such as IRIs, RDF graphs, OWL ontologies, and SPARQL... more
In a world that is giving prominence to ubiquitous computing, a classical standalone robot, though as complex, specialised and ef cient as it may be, is not suitable for a distributed environment. The aim is to have knowledge and... more
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or... more
This paper presents a statistical significance analysis of a modified version of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) on groups of simulated robots performing a distributed exploration task, denoted as R-DPSO (Robotic DPSO). This work... more
Environment Exploration is the basic process that most of Multi Robot Systems applications depend on it. The exploration process performance depends on the coordination strategy between the robots participating in the team. In this paper... more
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or... more
Se presenta un nuevo método para localizar a personas en entornos urbanos usando robots móviles sociales que trabajan de manera cooperativa, el cual supera las limitaciones de enfoques ya existentes, que se adaptan a entornos específicos,... more
This article presents a novel approach for optimizing locally the work of cooperative robots and obtaining the minimum displacement of humans in a guiding people mission. Unlike other methods, we consider situations where individuals can... more
The paper aims on the design, development and the fabrication of the robot which can dig the soil, put the seeds, leveler to close the mud and sprayer to spray water, these whole systems of the robot works with the battery and the solar... more
In this article, a robot formation control strategy based on a vision-based follow-the-leader scenario is proposed, with emphasize on its reliability. On the one hand, perception is enhanced by the control of a motorized zoom. On the... more
This paper proposes a decentralized multi-robot graph exploration approach in which each robot takes independent decision for efficient exploration avoiding inter-robot collision without direct communication between them. The information... more