3 accepted papers
This paper aims to improve the practical scalability of automated tools to assist in designing robots. Such problems rapidly become intractable because the underlying design space is immense. We consider a specific type of design tool addressed in prior work, which constructs a representation of the…
Motivated by the need for tools to aid in the design of effective robots, we examine how to determine the role that particular sensing and actuator resources play in enabling a robot to achieve useful ends. Rather than merely asking “will this sensor suffice?” we classify general modifications to th…
For a given robot and a given task, this paper addresses questions about which modifications may be made to the robotâs suite of sensors without impacting the robotâs behavior in completing its task. Though this is an important design-time question, few principled methods exist for providing a d…