Tucker R. Balch

An Empirical Evaluation of Context-Sensitive Pose Estimators in an Urban Outdoor Environment * (2008)

Yoichiro Endo, Patrick D. Ulam, Ronald C. Arkin, Tucker R. Balch, Matthew D. Powers

Abstract – When a mobile robot is executing a navigational task in an urban outdoor environment, accurate localization information is often essential. The difficulty of this task is compounded by...

An Empirical Evaluation of Context-Sensitive Pose Estimators in an Urban Outdoor Environment * (2008)

Yoichiro Endo, Patrick D. Ulam, Ronald C. Arkin, Tucker R. Balch, Matthew D. Powers

Abstract – When a mobile robot is executing a navigational task in an urban outdoor environment, accurate localization information is often essential. The difficulty of this task is compounded by...

Physical path planning using the gnats (2005)

Keith J. O’hara, Victor L. Bigio, Eric R. Dodson, Arya J. Irani, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch

Abstract — We continue our investigation into the application of pervasive, embedded networks to support multi-robot tasks. In this work we use a new a hardware platform, the GNATs, to aid in path...

The gnats – low-cost embedded networks for supporting mobile robots (2005)

Keith J. O’hara, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch

Abstract We provide an overview of the GNATs project. This project is aimed at using tens to thousands of inexpensive networked devices embedded in the environment to support mobile robot...

Energy-Optimal Trajectories for (2002)

Overactuated Robots Ravi, Ravi Balasubramanian, Tucker R. Balch

We present a method for computing energy optimal trajectories for an overactuated wheeled robot under quasistatic conditions, enabling it to climb over discontinuous terrain. The trajectories can be...

Energy-Optimal Trajectories for Overactuated Robots (2002)

Ravi Balasubramanian, Tucker R. Balch

We present a method for computing energy optimal trajectories for an overactuated wheeled robot under quasistatic conditions, enabling it to climb over discontinuous terrain. The trajectories can be...

Teaming Up: Georgia Tech's Multi-robot Competition Teams (1997)

Thomas R. Collins, Tucker R. Balch

Introduction In past AAAI competition entries (1992-94), Georgia Tech has fielded robots developed by experienced graduate students. This year, we will take a different approach, with two separate...

Making a Clean Sweep: Behavior Based Vacuuming (1993)

Douglas Mackenzie, Tucker R. Balch, I. Introduction

This paper will focus on how the existing work at Georgia Tech could be enhanced to perform the vacuuming task.