It is noted that almost all attempts to construct special-purpose robot programming languages
have proceeded by taking a computer-programming language and adding some special …

Video target tracking is the process of estimating the current state, and predicting the future
state of a target from a sequence of video sensor measurements. Multitarget video tracking is …

The importance of solving the problem of integrating deliberative (“planning”) capabilities
and reactive capabilities when building robust, ‘real-world’ robot systems is becoming widely …

Certain robot missions need to perform predictably in a physical environment that may have
significant uncertainty. One approach is to leverage automatic software verification …

Visual homing is a local navigation technique used to direct a robot to a previously seen
location by comparing the image of the original location with the current visual image. Prior work …

This paper introduces a novel approach to GPS-denied visual navigation of a robot team
over a wide (ie, out of line of sight) area which we call WAVN (Wide Area Visual Navigation). …

This paper introduces an approach that allows an agent to exploit inherent patterns of interaction
in its environment, so-called dynamics, to achieve its objectives. The approach extends …

This paper proposes a simple and uniform, decentralized approach to the problem of dispersing
a team of robots to explore an area quickly. The Decentralized Space-Based Potential …

In this paper we presented a novel, agile robot mechanism, which we call a rotopod, which
combines aspects of wheeled and legged locomotion. A general description of how a tripedal …

A process-based model of robot task plan representation is introduced, and some of its
advantages are discussed. By process-based it is meant that the plan is represented as a set of …