Search Results - "Dias, M. Bernardine"

A comprehensive taxonomy for multi-robot task allocation by Korsah, G. Ayorkor, Stentz, Anthony, Dias, M. Bernardine

“…Task allocation is an important aspect of many multi-robot systems. The features and complexity of multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems are dictated by…”
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Market-Based Multirobot Coordination: A Survey and Analysis by Dias, M.B., Zlot, R., Kalra, N., Stentz, A.

“…Market-based multirobot coordination approaches have received significant attention and are growing in popularity within the robotics research community. They…”
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Time-extended multi-robot coordination for domains with intra-path constraints by Jones, E. Gil, Dias, M. Bernardine, Stentz, Anthony

“…Many applications require teams of robots to cooperatively execute tasks. Among these domains are those in which successful coordination must respect…”
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Wayfinding and Navigation for People with Disabilities Using Social Navigation Networks by Hassan A. Karimi, M. Bernardine Dias, Jonathan Pearlman, George J. Zimmerman

“…To achieve safe and independent mobility, people usually depend on published information, prior experience, the knowledge of others, and/or technology to…”
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development by Toyama, Kentaro, Dias, M. Bernardine

“…ICTD has become a truly global undertaking, bringing together north and south, rich and poor, rural and urban, researcher and practitioner, technologist and…”
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Towards technology with a global heart through compassionate engineering by Bernardine Dias, M., Teves, Ermine A., Beatrice Dias, M.

“…This paper introduces the concept of "compassionate engineering," a process adopted by our research group, TechBridgeWorld, for developing technology solutions…”
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Multi-robot exploration controlled by a market economy by Zlot, Robert, Stentz, Anthony Tony, Dias, M Bernardine, Thayer, Scott

“…This work presents a novel approach to efficient multi-robot mapping and exploration which exploits a market architecture in order to maximize information gain…”
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TraderBots: A new paradigm for robust and efficient multirobot coordination in dynamic environments by Dias, M Bernardine

“…The challenge of efficient multirobot coordination has risen to the forefront of robotics research in recent years. The wide range of applications demanding…”
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Teamwork in field robotics Editorial by Dias, M. Bernadine, Ollero, Anibal

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Market-based multirobot coordination : A survey and analysis: Multirobot systems by BERNARDINE DIAS, M, ZLOT, Robert, KALRA, Nidhi, STENTZ, Anthony

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Enhancing an automated Braille Writing Tutor by Rahman, M.K., Dias, M.F., Belousov, S., Sanghvi, S., El-Moughny, N.

“…The reported work advances the state-of-the-art in assistive technology for the blind by enhancing a low-cost automated tutor designed to teach Braille writing…”
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Technology to Make Signalized Intersections Safer for Pedestrians with Disabilities by Vadakpat, Govindarajan, Smith, Stephen F, Rubinstein, Zachary B, Dias, M Bernardine

“…Vadakpat describes PedPal, a mobile smartphone application that enables pedestrians to communicate directly with signalized intersections and to influence…”
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The Autonomous Recharging Problem: Formulation and a market-based solution by Kannan, Balajee, Marmol, Victor, Bourne, Jaime, Dias, M. Bernardine

“…As robots are increasingly employed for distributed missions, an important problem that needs to be solved is the Autonomous Recharging Problem (ARP); that is,…”
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Incorporating information from trusted sources to enhance urban navigation for blind travelers by Byung-Cheol Min, Saxena, Suryansh, Steinfeld, Aaron, Dias, M. Bernardine

“…Dynamic changes can present significant challenges for visually impaired travelers to safely and independently navigate urban environments. To address these…”
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TraderBots: A new paradigm for robust and efficient multirobot coordination in dynamic environments by Dias, M. Bernardine

“…The challenge of efficient multirobot coordination has risen to the forefront of robotics research in recent years. The wide range of applications demanding…”
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xBots: An approach to generating and executing optimal multi-robot plans with cross-schedule dependencies by Korsah, G. A., Kannan, B., Browning, B., Stentz, A., Dias, M. B.

“…In this paper, we present an approach to bounded optimal planning and flexible execution for a robot team performing a set of spatially distributed tasks…”
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Improving cost estimation in market-based coordination of a distributed sensing task by Dias, M.B., Ghanem, B., Stentz, A.

“…While market-based approaches, such as TraderBots, have shown much promise for efficient coordination of multirobot teams, the cost estimation mechanism and…”
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Dynamically formed heterogeneous robot teams performing tightly-coordinated tasks by Gil Jones, E., Browning, B., Dias, M.B., Argall, B., Veloso, M., Stentz, A.

“…As we progress towards a world where robots play an integral role in society, a critical problem that remains to be solved is the pickup team challenge; that…”
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Introduction to the proceedings of ICTD2009 by Heeks, Richard, Tongia, Rahul, Dias, M. Bernardine

“…Welcome to the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009). It is with great pleasure that we present…”
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Orientation only loop-closing with closed-form trajectory bending by Dubbelman, G., Hansen, P., Browning, B., Dias, M. B.

“…In earlier work closed-form trajectory bending was shown to provide an efficient and accurate out-of-core solution for loop-closing exactly sparse…”
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