This paper presents mobile rescue robots as a way of augmenting communication in distributed teams through a shared remote visual presence consisting of the robot’s eye view. Emergency/disaster management is a system composed of many (distributed) ad hoc teams; one of these is Urban Search and Rescue (USAR), itself a system organizationally structured as teams of teams. The use of mobile robots...

Patrolling indoor infrastructures with a team of cooperative mobile robots is a challenging task, which requires effective multi-agent coordination. Deterministic patrol circuits for multiple mobile robots have become popular due to their exceeding performance. However their predefined nature does not allow the system to react to changes in the system’s conditions or adapt to unexpected situati...

The multi-robot coverage path-planning problem involves finding collision-free paths for a set of robots so that they can completely cover the surface of an environment. This problem is non-trivial as the geometry and location of obstacles in the environment is usually not known a priori by the robots, and they have to adapt their coverage path as they discover obstacles while moving in the env...

Robot soccer is a challenging domain for sensor fusion and object tracking techniques, due to its team oriented, fast-paced, dynamic and competitive nature. Since each robot has a limited view about the world surrounding it, the sharing of information with its teammates is often crucial in order to be ready to react to situations which might involve it in the near future. In this paper we propo...

BACKGROUND The commercial development and expansion of mobile phone networks has led to the creation of devices combining mobile phones and personal digital assistants, which could prove invaluable in a clinical setting. This pilot study aimed to look at how one such device compared with the current pager system in facilitating inter-professional communication in a hospital clinical team. MET...

This paper presents a project-oriented framework for multi-robot task scheduling. An agent-based architecture is designed to schedule tasks where robots are considered as resources. The study focused on the problems when the number of available robots is less than the required number. In this case, the problem becomes a resource-constrained scheduling problem. Initially, tasks are scheduled by ...

We present a coordination framework for mobile robot teams performing a task through cooperation. In cooperative robotics applications, robot teams are basically required to generate and maintain a geometric pattern, and adapt to their environment. Moreover, keeping the team formation, they continue to strive toward achieving their mission even if a part of team is unable to work and function n...

Following the completion of human genome sequencing, a major focus of life science has been the determination of the structure of proteins which genome codes for. This is a huge undertaking since there are between 30,000 to 200,000 proteins in the human body, and the structure of proteins is most complicated among all the molecules existing in an organism. The only reliable method for determini...

Team multicast identifies clusters of nodes with same affinity as teams and manages the multicast membership information using the unit of team rather than dealing with individual node members. The source propagates a data packet to each subscribed team’s leader and each leader forwards the data to the entire team. But none of the existing work on team multicasting consider the QoS metrics of t...

This paper presents a new algorithm that allows a team of robots to cooperatively search for a set of moving targets. An estimation of the areas of the environment that are more likely to hold a target agent is obtained using a grid-based Bayesian filter. The robot sensor readings and the maximum speed of the moving targets are used in order to update the grid. This representation is used in a ...