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Collaborative 3D Scene Reconstruction in Large Outdoor Environments Using a Fleet of Mobile Ground Robots by Lewis, John, Lima, Pedro U, Basiri, Meysam

“…Teams of mobile robots can be employed in many outdoor applications, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, and industrial inspection, allowing an…”
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Petri net based multi-robot task coordination from temporal logic specifications by Lacerda, Bruno, U. Lima, Pedro

“…We propose a methodology for enforcing a set of coordination rules onto a multi-robot system, based on the use of Petri nets to model the team of robots, safe…”
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Vision-Based Autonomous Following of a Moving Platform and Landing for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Morales, Jesús, Castelo, Isabel, Serra, Rodrigo, Lima, Pedro U, Basiri, Meysam

“…Interest in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has increased due to their versatility and variety of applications, however their battery life limits their…”
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Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Racing by Pinho, João, Costa, Gabriel, Lima, Pedro U., Ayala Botto, Miguel

“…In this paper, we present the adaptation of the terminal component learning-based model predictive control (TC-LMPC) architecture for autonomous racing to the…”
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Editorial: Supervision, control and learning for intelligent robot systems by Lima, Pedro U., Iocchi, Luca

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Petri Net Toolbox for Multi-Robot Planning under Uncertainty by Azevedo, Carlos, Matos, António, Lima, Pedro U., Avendaño, Jose

“…Currently, there is a lack of developer-friendly software tools to formally address multi-robot coordination problems and obtain robust, efficient, and…”
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Formation control driven by cooperative object tracking by Lima, Pedro U., Ahmad, Aamir, Dias, André, Conceição, André G.S., Moreira, António Paulo, Silva, Eduardo, Almeida, Luis, Oliveira, Luis, Nascimento, Tiago P.

“…In this paper we introduce a formation control loop that maximizes the performance of the cooperative perception of a tracked target by a team of mobile…”
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General Path Planning Methodology for Leader-Follower Robot Formations by Garrido, Santiago, Moreno, Luis, Gómez, Javier V., Lima, Pedro U.

“…This paper describes a robust algorithm for mobile robot formations based on the Voronoi Fast Marching path planning method. This is based on the propagation…”
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A robust localization system for multi-robot formations based on an extension of a Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density filter by Wasik, Alicja, Lima, Pedro U., Martinoli, Alcherio

“…This paper presents a strategy for providing reliable state estimates that allow a group of robots to realize a formation even when communication fails and the…”
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On Incremental Structure from Motion Using Lines by Mateus, Andre, Tahri, Omar, Aguiar, A. Pedro, Lima, Pedro U., Miraldo, Pedro

“…Humans tend to build environments with structure, which consists of mainly planar surfaces. From the intersection of planar surfaces arise straight lines…”
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Robot formation motion planning using Fast Marching by Garrido, Santiago, Moreno, Luis, Lima, Pedro U.

“…This paper presents the application of the Voronoi Fast Marching (VFM) method to path planning of mobile formation robots. The VFM method uses the propagation…”
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Performance Models in Robotics With a Use Case on SLAM by Piazza, Enrico, Lima, Pedro U., Matteucci, Matteo

“…The performance of a software component implementing a robotic functionality depends on many factors ranging from the system configuration (e.g., available…”
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Robot Competitions: What Did We Learn? [Competitions] by Dias, Jorge, Althoefer, Kaspar, Lima, Pedro U.

“…Reports on the significance of sponsoring robot competitions and discusses what we learn from their outcomes…”
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GEERS: Georeferenced Enhanced EKF Using Point Cloud Registration and Segmentation by Bettencourt, Rui, Lewis, John, Serra, Rodrigo, Basiri, Meysam, Vale, Alberto, Lima, Pedro U.

“…Georeferenced Enhanced EKF using point cloud Registration and Segmentation (GEERS) is a high-accuracy and consistent-rate localization method for outdoor…”
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On the Notion of Uncontrollable Marking in Supervisory Control of Petri Nets by Lacerda, Bruno, Lima, Pedro U.

“…We show that the notion of uncontrollable marking commonly used in the literature on supervisory control theory of Petri nets is not sound, by means of a…”
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Journal of Field Robotics special issue on MBZIRC 2017 Challenges in Autonomous Field Robotics by Dias, Jorge, Lima, Pedro U., Seneviratne, Lakmal, Khatib, Oussama, Tadokoro, Satoshi, Dario, Paolo

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To err is robotic, to tolerate immunological: fault detection in multirobot systems by Tarapore, Danesh, Lima, Pedro U, Carneiro, Jorge, Christensen, Anders Lyhne

“…Fault detection and fault tolerance represent two of the most important and largely unsolved issues in the field of multirobot systems (MRS). Efficient,…”
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A Dynamic Weighted Area Assignment Based on a Particle Filter for Active Cooperative Perception by Acevedo, Jose J., Messias, Joao, Capitan, Jesus, Ventura, Rodrigo, Merino, Luis, Lima, Pedro U.

“…This article addresses an Active cooperative perception problem for networked robots systems. Given a team of networked robots, the goal is finding a target…”
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A Unified Decision-Theoretic Model for Information Gathering and Communication Planning by Renoux, Jennifer, Veiga, Tiago S., Lima, Pedro U., Spaan, Matthijs T. J.

“…We consider the problem of communication planning for human-machine cooperation in stochastic and partially observable environments. Partially Observable…”
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RoCKIn Innovation Through Robot Competitions [Competitions] by Lima, Pedro U., Nardi, Daniele, Kraetzschmar, Gerhard, Berghofer, Jakob, Matteucci, Matteo, Buchanan, Graham

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