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Multirobot Control Strategies for Collective Transport by Farivarnejad, Hamed, Berman, Spring

“…One potential application of multirobot systems is collective transport, a task in which multiple robots collaboratively move a payload that is too large or…”
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Fully Decentralized Controller for Multi-Robot Collective Transport in Space Applications by Farivarnejad, Hamed, Lafmejani, Amir Salimi, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we propose a fully decentralized control strategy for collective payload transport in 3D space by a team of identical holonomic mobile robots in…”
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Multi-robot replication of ant collective towing behaviours by Wilson, Sean, Buffin, Aurélie, Pratt, Stephen C., Berman, Spring

“…In this work, teams of small mobile robots are used to test hypotheses about cooperative transport by ants. This study attempts to explain a decrease in…”
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New Insights on the Control and Function of Octopus Suckers by Bagheri, Hosain, Hu, Anna, Cummings, Sheldon, Roy, Cayla, Casleton, Rachel, Wan, Ashley, Erjavic, Nicole, Berman, Spring, Peet, Matthew M., Aukes, Daniel M., He, Ximin, Pratt, Stephen C., Fisher, Rebecca E., Marvi, Hamid

“…Octopuses utilize their suckers for a myriad of functions such as chemo‐ and mechanosensing, exploring and manipulating objects, anchoring the body during…”
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Density Stabilization Strategies for Nonholonomic Agents on Compact Manifolds by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we consider the problem of stabilizing a class of degenerate stochastic processes, which are constrained to a bounded Euclidean domain or a…”
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Design and analysis of a potential-based controller for safe robot navigation in unknown GPS-denied environments with strictly convex obstacles by Farivarnejad, Hamed, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we propose an obstacle avoidance controller for a disk-shaped holonomic robot with double-integrator dynamics and local sensing. The control…”
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PDE-based optimization for stochastic mapping and coverage strategies using robotic ensembles by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Kuiper, Hendrik, Berman, Spring

“…This paper presents a novel partial differential equation (PDE)-based framework for controlling an ensemble of robots, which have limited sensing and actuation…”
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Decentralized Control of Multiagent Systems Using Local Density Feedback by Biswal, Shiba, Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we stabilize a discrete-time Markov process evolving on a compact subset of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\mathbb…”
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Local navigation-like functions for safe robot navigation in bounded domains with unknown convex obstacles by Farivarnejad, Hamed, Lafmejani, Amir Salimi, Berman, Spring

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Optimal control of stochastic coverage strategies for robotic swarms by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…This paper addresses a trajectory planning and task allocation problem for a swarm of resource-constrained robots that cannot localize or communicate with each…”
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Multi-Robot Target Search using Probabilistic Consensus on Discrete Markov Chains by Shirsat, Aniket, Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we propose a probabilistic consensus-based multi-robot search strategy that is robust to communication link failures, and thus is suitable for…”
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Stabilization of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems to Target Measures Using Stochastic Feedback Laws by Biswal, Shiba, Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we address the problem of stabilizing a discrete-time deterministic nonlinear control system to a target invariant measure using…”
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Highly stretchable self-sensing actuator based on conductive photothermally-responsive hydrogel by Lo, Chiao-Yueh, Zhao, Yusen, Kim, Cheolgyu, Alsaid, Yousif, Khodambashi, Roozbeh, Peet, Matthew, Fisher, Rebecca, Marvi, Hamid, Berman, Spring, Aukes, Daniel, He, Ximin

“…[Display omitted] Soft robots built with active soft materials have been increasingly attractive. Despite tremendous efforts in soft sensors and actuators, it…”
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Controllability and decentralized stabilization of the Kolmogorov forward equation for Markov chains by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Biswal, Shiba, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we provide several results on controllability and stabilizability properties of the Kolmogorov forward equation of a continuous-time Markov…”
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Nonlinear MPC for collision-free and deadlock-free navigation of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots by Salimi Lafmejani, Amir, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we present an online nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) method for collision-free, deadlock-free navigation by multiple autonomous…”
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Go-CHART: A miniature remotely accessible self-driving car robot by Kannapiran, Shenbagaraj, Berman, Spring

“…The Go-CHART is a four-wheel, skid-steer robot that resembles a 1:28 scale standard commercial sedan. It is equipped with an onboard sensor suite and both…”
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Bilinear Controllability of a Class of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Systems by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Kuiper, Hendrik, Kawski, Matthias, Berman, Spring

“…In this paper, we investigate the exact controllability properties of an advection-diffusion equation on a bounded domain, using time- and space-dependent…”
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Controllability and Stabilization for Herding a Robotic Swarm Using a Leader: A Mean-Field Approach by Elamvazhuthi, Karthik, Kakish, Zahi, Shirsat, Aniket, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we introduce a model and a control approach for herding a swarm of "follower" agents to a target distribution among a set of states using a…”
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Information Correlated Lévy Walk Exploration and Distributed Mapping Using a Swarm of Robots by Ramachandran, Ragesh K., Kakish, Zahi, Berman, Spring

“…In this article, we present a novel distributed method for constructing an occupancy grid map of an unknown environment using a swarm of robots with global…”
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GAN-Based Domain Adaptation for Creating Digital Twins of Small-Scale Driving Testbeds: Opportunities and Challenges by Ulhas, Sangeet Sankaramangalam, Kannapiran, Shenbagaraj, Berman, Spring

“…In recent years, small-scale driving testbeds have been developed as controlled physical environments for the evaluation of autonomous vehicle controllers…”
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