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This paper deals with the localization problem of mobile robot subject to communication delay and packet loss. The delay and loss may appear in a random fashion in both control inputs and observation measurements. A unified state-space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Manh Duong Phung , Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

This paper addresses a synchronization problem that arises when a team of aerial robots (ARs) need to communicate while performing assigned tasks in a cooperative scenario. Each robot has a limited communication range and flies within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 J. M. Díaz-Báñez , L. E. Caraballo , M. A. Lopez , S. Bereg , I. Maza , A. Ollero

Shared autonomy integrates user input with robot autonomy in order to control a robot and help the user to complete a task. Our work aims to improve the performance of such a human-robot team: the robot tries to guide the human towards an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Stefanos Nikolaidis , Yu Xiang Zhu , David Hsu , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Accurate network synchronization is a key enabler for services such as coherent transmission, cooperative decoding, and localization in distributed and cell-free networks. Unlike centralized networks, where synchronization is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Dieter Verbruggen , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

The advancement of simulation-assisted robot programming, automation of high-tolerance assembly operations, and improvement of real-world performance engender a need for positionally accurate robots. Despite tight machining tolerances, good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Karl Van Wyk , Joe Falco , Geraldine Cheok

Clock synchronization is the backbone of applications such as high-accuracy satellite navigation, geolocation, space-based interferometry, and cryptographic communication systems. The high accuracy of synchronization needed over…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-10 Thomas B. Bahder

Mapping in the GPS-denied environment is an important and challenging task in the field of robotics. In the large environment, mapping can be significantly accelerated by multiple robots exploring different parts of the environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Zutao Jiang , Jihua Zhu , Yaochen Li , Zhongyu Li , Huimin Lu

Enabling autonomous operation of large-scale construction machines, such as excavators, can bring key benefits for human safety and operational opportunities for applications in dangerous and hazardous environments. To facilitate robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Julian Nubert , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

Multi-robot localization is a crucial task for implementing multi-robot systems. Numerous researchers have proposed optimization-based multi-robot localization methods that use camera, IMU, and UWB sensors. Nevertheless, characteristics of…

In collaborative tasks where humans work alongside machines, the robot's movements and behaviour can have a significant impact on the operator's safety, health, and comfort. To address this issue, we present a multi-stereo camera system…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Gerasimos Arvanitis , Nikos Piperigkos , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Aris S. Lalos , Konstantinos Moustakas

In order to fully exploit the advantages inherent to cooperating heterogeneous multi-robot teams, sophisticated coordination algorithms are essential. Time-extended multi-robot task allocation approaches assign and schedule a set of tasks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Esther Bischoff , Fabian Meyer , Jairo Inga , Sören Hohmann

We propose a method for automated synchronization of vehicle sensors useful for the study of multi-modal driver behavior and for the design of advanced driver assistance systems. Multi-sensor decision fusion relies on synchronized data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Lex Fridman , Daniel E Brown , William Angell , Irman Abdić , Bryan Reimer , Hae Young Noh

Understanding human intentions is critical for safe and effective human-robot collaboration. While state of the art methods for human goal prediction utilize learned models to account for the uncertainty of human motion data, that data is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yi-Shiuan Tung , Matthew B. Luebbers , Alessandro Roncone , Bradley Hayes

An important capability of autonomous multi-robot systems is to prevent collision among the individual robots. One approach to this problem is to plan conflict-free trajectories and let each of the robots follow its pre-planned trajectory.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Alexander Kleiner , Martin Selecký

In the field of collaborative robotics, the ability to communicate spatial information like planned trajectories and shared environment information is crucial. When no global position information is available (e.g., indoor or GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mason B. Peterson , Parker C. Lusk , Antonio Avila , Jonathan P. How

Classification and localization of driving actions over time is important for advanced driver-assistance systems and naturalistic driving studies. Temporal localization is challenging because it requires robustness, reliability, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Erkut Akdag , Zeqi Zhu , Egor Bondarev , Peter H. N. De With

Global positioning systems can provide sufficient positioning accuracy for large scale robotic tasks in open environments. However, in underwater environments, these systems cannot be directly used, and measuring the position of underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Vicu-Mihalis Maer , Levente Tamas , Lucian Busoniu

Multi-robot cooperative control has gained extensive research interest due to its wide applications in civil, security, and military domains. This paper proposes a cooperative control algorithm for multi-robot systems with general linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

In this work, we study the joint synchronization and localization (sync&loc) of Mobile Nodes (MNs) in ultra dense networks. In particular, we deploy an asymmetric timestamp exchange mechanism between MNs and Access Nodes (ANs), that,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Meysam Goodarzi , Nebojsa Maletic , Jesus Gutierrez , Eckhard Grass

While camera and LiDAR are widely used in most of the assisted and autonomous driving systems, only a few works have been proposed to associate the temporal synchronization and extrinsic calibration for camera and LiDAR which are dedicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shouan Wang , Xinyu Zhang , GuiPeng Zhang , Yijin Xiong , Ganglin Tian , Shichun Guo , Jun Li