Optimization-based design is an effective and promising approach to realizing collective
behaviours for robot swarms. Unfortunately, the domain literature often remains vague about …

Mobile robots operate in various environments (eg aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial), they come
in many diverse shapes and they are increasingly becoming parts of our lives. The …

This paper describes a Mission Definition System and the automated flight process it
enables to implement measurement plans for discrete infrastructure inspections using aerial …

Mobile and general-purpose robots increasingly support everyday life, requiring
dependable robotics control software. Creating such software mainly amounts to …

Designing collective behaviors for robot swarms is a difficult endeavor due to their fully
distributed, highly redundant, and ever-changing nature. To overcome the challenge, a few …

Programming robotic systems is often a challenging task requiring advanced skills,
especially when the goal is to ensure loosely-coupled coordination in heterogeneous Multi …

Drone operators, institutions (eg law enforcement, rescue agencies, preservation organisms,
etc.) and companies (logistics, surveillance, inspection, etc.), are constituting themselves as …

Fully autonomous flight by low-cost, lightweight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones
could transform many use cases involving real-time computer vision. We show how such …

With many applications across domains as diverse as logistics, healthcare, and agriculture,
service robots are in increasingly high demand. Nevertheless, the designers of these robots …

Abstract Service robots are increasingly being used to perform missions comprising
dangerous or tedious tasks previously executed by humans. However, their users—who …