6 accepted papers
Herding is performed by people or trained animals to control the movement of livestock under the desired direction of an operator. This paper presents a novel decentralized control strategy for a group of robots to herd animals which consists of two phases, a surrounding phase and a driving phase. I…
In this letter, we present an interactive probabilistic mapping framework for a mobile manipulator picking objects from a pile. The aim is to map the scene, actively decide where to go next and which object to pick, make changes to the scene by picking the chosen object, and then map these changes a
Additive Manufacturing, has evolved beyond prototyping to manufacturing end-products. The authors are involved in developing a large-scale extrusion-based 3D printer to print mining equipment - a Gravity Separation Spiral, and embedding sensors to monitor the operational conditions re-motely. This p…
This paper presents an approach for selecting the next best base position for a climbing robot so as to observe the highest information gain about the environment. The robot is capable of adhering to and moving along and transitioning to surfaces with arbitrary orientations. This approach samples kn…
Uncertainties in base placements of mobile, autonomous industrial robots can cause incomplete coverage in tasks such as grit-blasting and spray painting. Sensing and localization errors can cause such uncertainties in robot base placements. This paper addresses the problem of collaborative complete…
There are many benefits for the deployment of multiple autonomous industrial robots to carry out a task, particularly if the robots act in a highly collaborative manner. Collaboration can be possible when each robot is able to autonomously explore the environment, localize itself, create a map of th…