Modular Robotics, Multi-Agent or Swarm Robotics, and Utility Fog
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Publications
- 1994 "Advantages and Disadvantages of Swarms" Kevin Kelly)
- May 1994 "Kinematics of a Metamorphic Robotic System" (Gregory Chirijian)
- Jul. 1994 "Utility Fog, Part I" (J. Storrs Hall)
- 1995 "Hyper-Redundant Manipulator Dynamics: A Continuum Approximation" (G.S. Chirikjian)
- Dec. 1995 "The Construction and Utilization of Space Filling Polyhedra for Active Mesostructures" (Forrest Bishop)
- 1996 "Evaluating Efficiency of Self-Reconfiguration in a Class of Modular Robots" (Gregory Chirikjian, Amit Pamecha, Imme Ebert-Uphoff)
- May 1996 "LEGO(TM)s to the Stars: Active MesoStructures, Kinetic Cellular Automata, and Parallel Nanomachines for Space Applications" (Tihamer Toth-Fejel) Also
- Jun. 1996 "Amorphous
Computing" (Harold Abelson, Thomas F. Knight, Gerald Jay Sussman)
- Oct. 1996 "Whither
Microbots?" (Ralph Hollis) PDF
- 1997 "Cooperative
Multiagent Robotic Systems" (Ronald C. Arkin, Tucker Balch)
- May 1997 "Social
Entropy: A New Metric for Multi-Robot Teams" (T. Balch)
- Jul. 1997 "Learning
Roles: Behavioral Diversity in Robot Teams" (T. Balch)
- Aug. 1997 "Useful
Metrics for Modular Robot Motion Planning" (Amit Pamecha, Imme
Ebert-Uphoff, Gregory S. Chirikjian)
- 1998 "Implementing
Schema-theoretic Models of Animal Behavior in Robotic Systems"
(Khaled S. Ali, Ronald C. Arkin)
- 1998 "The
Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule" (K. Kotay, C. McGray,
D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- 1998 "The
Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule: Design and Control Algorithms"
(K. Kotay, C. McGray, D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- 1998 "Behavioral
Diversity in Learning Robot Teams" (Tucker Balch, Ph.D. dissertation)
- 1998 "Distributed
Control of Multi-Robot Teams: Cooperative Baton Passing Task"
(Lynne E. Parker)
- 1999 "Behavior-based
Formation Control for Multi-Robot Teams" (Tucker Balch, Ronald
C. Arkin)
- 1999 "Self-reconfiguration
Planning with Compressible Unit Modules" (D. Rus, M. Vona)
Also
- 1999 "Multiagent
Telerobotics: Matching Systems to Tasks" (Khaled S. Ali, Ph.D.
dissertation)
- Apr. 1999 "Teaching
Robots to Cooperate" (DOE)
- Aug. 1999 "A
Beacon System for the Localization of Distributed Robotic Teams"
(L.E. Navarro-Serment, C.J.J. Paredis, P.K. Khosla) PDF
- Sep. 1999 "Modularity
in Small Distributed Robots" (L.E. Navarro-Serment, R. Grabowski,
C.J.J. Paredis, P.K. Khosla) PDF
- 2000 "A
physical implementation of the Self-Reconfigurable Crystalline Robot"
(D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- 2000 "A
basis for Self-repair Robots using Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Modules"
(R. Fitch, D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- 2000 "A
basis for Self-reconfiguring Robots using Crystal Modules"
(D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- Jul. 2000 "Heterogeneous
Multi-Robot Systems" (Tucker Balch, Lynne E. Parker, eds.)
TOC only
- Sep. 2000 "Robot
Watch: Atomic Bonds" (Fenella Saunders, Discover Magazine)
- Dec. 2000 "The
Physics of Gridlock" (Stephen Budiansky)
- Jan. 2001 "Crystalline
Robots: Self-reconfiguration with Compressible Unit Modules"
(D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
- tbd "Robot
Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism" (Tucker Balch, Lynne
E. Parker, eds.)
TOC only
People
- Akella, Srinivas
- Arkin,
Ronald C.
- Balch, Tucker R.
- Bishop, Forrest See
Also
- Casal,
Arancha
- Chen, I-Ming
- Chirikjian,
Gregory S. See
Also
- Duff,
David
- Ethridge,
Elana C.
- Gini, Maria
- Hall, John Storrs
- Homans,
Sam
- Huang, Wes
- Kotay, Keith D.
- Parker, Lynne E.
- Roufas,
Kimon
- Rybski, Paul Edmund
- Suh,
Joh
- Toth-Fejel,
Tihamer Also
- Veloso, Manuela
- Vona, Marsette
- Yim, Mark
Also
- Zhang,
Ying
Organizations
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