In this paper, we develop an autonomous construction system in which a self-contained ground robot builds a protective barrier by means of deformable pockets (i.e., filled bags). We present a stochastic control algorithm based on two biological mechanisms (stigmergy and templates) that takes advantage of deformable pockets for autonomous construction. The control algorithm guides the robot to b...

Developing software to control a sophisticated lane-following, obstacle-avoiding, autonomous robot can be demanding and beyond the capabilities of novice programmers but it doesn’t have to be. A creative software design utilizing only basic image processing and a little algebra, has been employed to control the LTU-AISSIG autonomous robot a contestant in the 2004 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Comp...

Predicting and identifying an optimal navigational forecasting for a mobile robot agent is considered to be one of the key challenges for researchers in the field of AI and robotics. A mobile robot agent participating for wide range of mission critical application will explore into an unknown environment will be challenging criteria, considering its contraints such as time, cost, energy, explor...

Achieving human-robot cooperation in a telerobotics system is the focus of this paper. The implementation of human-robot systems can be extremely challenging when the robot is not directly controlled by the human. The interaction mode, depending on the task context, can be continuous manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous. To address the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) issues in such a system, a c...

In order to achieve an autonomous system which can adaptively behave through learning in the real world, we constructed a distributed autonomous swimming robot that consisted of mechanically linked multi-agent and adopted adaptive oscillator method that was developed as a general decision making for distributed autonomous systems (DASs). One of the our aims by using this system is to verify whe...