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We present a new algorithm for the problem of universal gathering mobile oblivious robots (that is, starting from any initial configuration that is not bivalent, using any number of robots, the robots reach in a finite number of steps the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Pierre Courtieu , Lionel Rieg , Sébastien Tixeuil , Xavier Urbain

Traditional visual servoing methods suffer from serving between scenes from multiple perspectives, which humans can complete with visual signals alone. In this paper, we investigated how multi-perspective visual servoing could be solved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lei Zhang , Jiacheng Pei , Kaixin Bai , Zhaopeng Chen , Jianwei Zhang

In this paper, we provide a framework integrating distributed multi-robot systems and temporal epistemic logic. We show that continuous-discrete hybrid systems are compatible with logical models of knowledge already used in distributed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Giorgio Cignarale , Stephan Felber , Eric Goubault , Bernardo Hummes Flores , Hugo Rincon Galeana

As vision-based robots navigate larger environments, their spatial memory grows without bound, eventually exhausting computational resources, particularly on embedded platforms (8-16GB shared memory, $<$30W) where adding hardware is not an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ma. Madecheen S. Pangaliman , Steven S. Sison , Erwin P. Quilloy , Rowel Atienza

Wheelchair-mounted robotic arms (and other assistive robots) should help their users perform everyday tasks. One way robots can provide this assistance is shared autonomy. Within shared autonomy, both the human and robot maintain control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ananth Jonnavittula , Dylan P. Losey

Learning or identifying dynamics from a sequence of high-dimensional observations is a difficult challenge in many domains, including reinforcement learning and control. The problem has recently been studied from a generative perspective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Oliver Limoyo , Bryan Chan , Filip Marić , Brandon Wagstaff , Rupam Mahmood , Jonathan Kelly

This work focuses on the following question related to the Gathering problem of $n$ autonomous, mobile robots in the Euclidean plane: Is it possible to solve Gathering of robots that do not agree on any axis of their coordinate systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jannik Castenow , Jonas Harbig , Daniel Jung , Till Knollmann , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We consider a strong variant of the crash fault-tolerant gathering problem called stand-up indulgent gathering (SUIG), by robots endowed with limited visibility sensors and lights on line-shaped networks. In this problem, a group of mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Quentin Bramas , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Masahiro Shibata , Sébastien Tixeuil

Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental and challenging problem for autonomous navigation of mobile robots. In this paper, we consider the problem of obstacle avoidance in simple 3D environments where the robot has to solely rely on a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Patrick Wenzel , Torsten Schön , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers

This work is devoted to the problem of distributed target tracking when a team of robots detect the target through a variable perception-latency mechanism. A reference for the robots to track is constructed in terms of a desired formation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

From learning assistance to companionship, social robots promise to enhance many aspects of daily life. However, social robots have not seen widespread adoption, in part because (1) they do not adapt their behavior to new users, and (2)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Luke Guerdan , Hatice Gunes

Shared autonomy provides an effective framework for human-robot collaboration that takes advantage of the complementary strengths of humans and robots to achieve common goals. Many existing approaches to shared autonomy make restrictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Charles Schaff , Matthew R. Walter

Shared autonomy methods, where a human operator and a robot arm work together, have enabled robots to complete a range of complex and highly variable tasks. Existing work primarily focuses on one human sharing autonomy with a single robot.…

Spatial reasoning is a critical capability for intelligent robots, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) still fall short of human-level performance in video-based spatial reasoning. This gap mainly stems from two challenges: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zuntao Liu , Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Cherie Ho , Chen Wang

Exploration of extreme or remote environments such as Mars is often recognized as an opportunity for multi-robot systems. However, this poses challenges for maintaining robust inter-robot communication without preexisting infrastructure. It…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Gjosse Zijlstra , Karen L. Aplin , Edmund R. Hunt

Despite their mechanical sophistication, surgical robots remain blind to their surroundings. This lack of spatial awareness causes collisions, system recoveries, and workflow disruptions, issues that will intensify with the introduction of…

Over the past few years, deep learning techniques have achieved tremendous success in many visual understanding tasks such as object detection, image segmentation, and caption generation. Despite this thriving in computer vision and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Anh Nguyen

Heterogeneous multi-robot systems feature significant adaptability for complex environments. However, effective collaboration that fully exploits the robots' potential remains a core challenge. This paper proposes a decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuxiang Li , Kun Chen , Jiancheng Wang , Shihao Fang , Haoyao Chen , Yunhui Liu

Humans leverage multiple sensor modalities when interacting with objects and discovering their intrinsic properties. Using the visual modality alone is insufficient for deriving intuition behind object properties (e.g., which of two boxes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Gyan Tatiya , Jonathan Francis , Jivko Sinapov

Arbitrary pattern formation ($\mathcal{APF}$) by mobile robots is studied by many in literature under different conditions and environment. Recently it has been studied on an infinite grid network but with full visibility. In opaque robot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Manash Kumar Kundu , Pritam Goswami , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau