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It is essential in many applications to impose a scalable coordinated motion control on a large group of mobile robots, which is efficient in tasks requiring repetitive execution, such as environmental monitoring. In this paper, we design a…
In this work we present a variant of the fast multipole method (FMM) for efficiently evaluating standard layer potentials on geometries with complex coordinates in two and three dimensions. The complex scaled boundary integral method for…
We consider the problem of classifying a map using a team of communicating robots. It is assumed that all robots have localized visual sensing capabilities and can exchange their information with neighboring robots. Using a graph…
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Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an approach that includes both flexibility of job shops and high production rate of flow lines. Although CM provides many benefits in reducing throughput times, setup times, work-in-process inventories but the…
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In order to make full use of geographic routing techniques developed for large scale networks, nodes must be localized. However, localization and virtual localization techniques in sensor networks are dependent either on expensive and…
We will propose a new algorithm for finding critical points of cost functions defined on a differential manifold. We will lift the initial cost function to a manifold that can be embedded in a Riemannian manifold (Euclidean space) and will…