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The need for improving the robustness and the ability to adapt to different operational conditions is a key requirement for a wider deployment of robots in many application domains. To this end, uses of contextual information have proven to be effective in many robotic applications. In this paper, we present a case study on the use of contextual information for rescue robots. The goal is to show that...
To coordinate a team of robots for exploration is a challenging problem, particularly in large areas as for example the devastated area after a disaster. This problem can generally be decomposed into task assignment and multi-robot path planning. In this paper, we address both problems jointly. This is possible because we reduce significantly the size of the search space by utilizing RFID tags as...
The problem of assigning tasks to a group of robots acting in a dynamic environment is a fundamental issue for a multirobot system (MRS) and several techniques have been studied to address this problem. Such techniques usually rely on the assumption that tasks to be assigned are inserted into the system in a coherent fashion. In this work we consider a scenario where tasks to be accomplished are perceived...
In many surveillance applications, there are different properties of the environment to check. For example, in the case of robots surveilling an industrial depot, one could be interested in verifying for fire alarms, intrusion alarms or bio-hazards. It is very hard to characterize the solution of this problem in terms of a unique utility function. Indeed, this would require to define a measure of...
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