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On Motion Coordination of Robots with Volume. (1997)

Abstract
In the study of cooperative behavior of distributed autonomous robots, certain problems including convergence to a single point and formation of the given geometric figures have been discussed under a simplifying assumption that a robot is represented as a point that has no volume (1). In this paper, we represent each robot as a disc with some volume, rather than a point, and develop and evaluate two algorithms for moving many robots through a narrow gate. Though each robot is a disc, we assume that a robot does not block the view of other robots.. Prepared in cooperation with Hiroshima Univ., Japan. Also supported by NSF-IRI-9307506.

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Download http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA299459
Contributors WISCONSIN UNIV-MILWAUKEE DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Repository Defense Technical Information Center OAI-PMH Repository (United States)
Keywords CYBERNETICS, *ROBOTS, *AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION, ALGORITHMS, DISTRIBUTION, GATES(CIRCUITS), GEOMETRIC FORMS, SELF OPERATION, BEHAVIOR., *AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Language eng