A key methodology for the development of autonomous robots is testing using simulated robot motion and sensing systems. An important issue when simulating teams of heterogeneous autonomous robots is performance versus accuracy. In this paper the multi-robot-simulation framework (MuRoSimF) is presented which allows the flexible and transparent exchange and combination of the algorithms used for ...

The new Carnegie Mellon Autonomous I and Vehicle group has produced the first demonstrations of road following robots. In this paper we first describe the robots that are part of the CMU Autonomous Land Vehicle project. We next describe the vision system of the CMU ALV. We then present the control algorithms, including a simple and stable control scheme for visual servoing. Finally we discuss o...

We are pursuing a bottom-up exploration of the evolution of behaviours involving collective locomotion of numerous miniature autonomous mobile robots. Collective locomotion is a subset of collective robotics [Bonabeau & Theraulaz 94] which focuses on the specific tasks required to move a group of autonomous agents (e.g. mobile virtual or physical robots) from an origin to a destination. It deal...

Using a combination of active Radio-Frequency Identification tracking and staff interviews with members from an aerospace manufacturing company, it was uncovered that over 80 hours per week spent in the manual movement goods between departments. On site 1000 employees uses dedicated build cells separated departments, this mixed-use facility proves challenging for adoption autonomous delivery sy...

Most often, autonomous robots maintain group formations by using global information such as the position of the group leader or even the position of all robots inside the formation. Alternative approaches to autonomous robot formations have considered local information, which is more realistic but presents some drawbacks such as troop deformation. In this paper we perform a step forward in loca...

There is evidence that people expects to be able to play games with autonomous robots, so that robogames could be one of the next killer applications for Robotics. Physically Interactive RoboGames (PIRG) is a new application field where autonomous robots are involved in games requiring physical interaction with people. Since research in this field is moving its first steps, definitions and desi...