4 accepted papers
The objective of foraging robot swarms is to search for and collect resources in an unknown arena as quickly as possible. To avoid the congestion near the central collection zone, we previously proposed an extension to the multiple-place foraging in which robot chains are deployed dynamically so tha…
The goal of foraging robot swarms is to search and deliver resources to a specific central collection zone quickly. In the previously proposed multiple-place foraging algorithm with dynamic depots, foraging performance decreases as search areas and swarm sizes increase: depots need to travel long di…
Many existing mobile service robots, including the robots in Robocup@Home, perform their designated tasks only when the robots are stationary. The efficiency of these robots can be improved if they can perform some tasks while moving. In this paper, we propose the concept of mobile workstations, whi…
A conveyor belt is an efficient mode of transportation and has been widely utilized to move large quantities of objects in assembly lines, airports, etc. We propose a new conveyor system called mobile conveyor lines that can autonomously configure itself to move objects to a given destination. This