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This paper suggests a novel method for a mobile robot to plan its path towards a target through an unknown environment, using sensors to discover new obstacles along the way. The method synthesizes an artificial temperature gradient throughout the known environment by numerically solving the heat conduction partial differential equation, where obstacles encountered during the robot navigation are...
SpiderBot is a cable suspended mobile robot that is designed to climb walls and hang from ceilings by shooting tethered plungers onto the surface. Removing the plungers, it reels in the web, aims, and repeats the process to climb farther. SpiderBots' design was inspired by the fictional character Spider-Man. The robot can be used for carrying equipment and sensors over a disaster area to help rescue...
We investigate the path finding problem to a target whose position is known in an unknown and unbounded environment. We present a novel motion planning algorithm which uses a group of heterogeneous robots to search for the path to the target. The algorithm assigns the robots in pairs, each two robots within a pair have the same velocity, and are cooperating to search for the path to the target. The...
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