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Mobile Robot Laboratory On-line Publications
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2009
| The Role of Trust and Relationships in Human-Robot Social Interaction | |
| Alan R. Wagner, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
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| Transferring Embodied Concepts between Perceptually Heterogeneous Robots | |
| Z. Kira | |
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| Lek Behavior as a Model for Multi-Robot Systems | |
| B.A. Duncan, P.D. Ulam, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.6 MB) | pdf (1.2 MB) |
| Robot Deception: Recognizing when a Robot Should Deceive | |
| A. Wagner and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (244 KB) | pdf (106 KB) |
| An Ethical Adaptor: Behavioral Modification Derived from Moral Emotions | |
| R.C. Arkin and P. Ulam | |
| compressed postscript (2.6 MB) | pdf (1.6 MB) |
| The Coordination of Deliberative Reasoning in a Mobile Robot | |
| P. Ulam | |
| compressed postscript (277 KB) | pdf (159 KB) |
| Beyond Humanoid Emotions: Incorporating Traits, Attitudes and Moods | |
| L. Moshkina and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (158 KB) | pdf (179 KB) |
| Mapping Grounded Object Properties across Perceptually Heterogeneous Embodiments | |
| Z. Kira | |
| compressed postscript (961 KB) | pdf (559 KB) |
| Accountable Autonomous Agents: The next level | |
| R.C. Arkin | |
| Position Paper for the DARPA Complete Intelligence Workshop. | |
| compressed postscript (56 KB) | pdf (111 KB) |
| Creating and Using Matrix Representations of Social Interaction | |
| A.R. Wagner | |
| compressed postscript (4.1 MB) | pdf (298 KB) |
| Time-varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots | |
| L. Moshkina, R.C. Arkin, J.K. Lee, and H. Jung | |
| compressed postscript (349 KB) | pdf (372 KB) |
| Ethical Robots in Warfare | |
| R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (98 KB) | pdf (142 KB) |
| An Ethical Governor for Constraining Lethal Action in an Autonomous System | |
| R.C. Arkin, P. Ulam, and B. Duncan | |
| compressed postscript (1.2 MB) | pdf (873 KB) |
| Responsibility and Lethality for Unmanned Systems: Ethical Pre-mission Responsibility Advisement | |
| R.C. Arkin, A.R. Wagner, and B. Duncan | |
| compressed postscript (795 KB) | pdf (580 KB) |
2008
| Countering Murphy's Law: The Use of Anticipation and Improvisation via an Episodic Memory in Support of Intelligent Robot Behavior | |
| Yoichiro Endo, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
| compressed postscript (6.9 MB) | pdf (4.9 MB) |
| Lethality and Autonomous Systems: The Roboticist Demographic | |
| L. Moshkina and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (301 KB) | pdf (181 KB) |
| Illusion versus Reality in Companion Robots: A Reprise (EXTENDED ABSTRACT) | |
| R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (276 KB) | pdf (92 KB) |
2007
| Lethality and Autonomous Systems: Survey Design and Results | |
| L. Moshkina and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (3.1 MB) | pdf (2.1 MB) |
| Acoustical Awareness for Intelligent Robotic Action | |
| Eric Martinson, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
| compressed postscript (2.5 MB) | pdf (4.1 MB) |
| Biasing Behavioral Activation with Intent for an Entertainment Robot | |
| P. Ulam and R. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (643 KB) | pdf (685 KB) |
| Modeling Robot Differences by Leveraging a Physically Shared Context | |
| Z. Kira and K. Long | |
| compressed postscript (204 KB) | pdf (153 KB) |
| Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture | |
| R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (2.1 MB) | pdf (1.9 MB) |
| Derivative papers: Part 1: Motivation and Philosophy [PDF] Part 2: Formalization for Ethical Control [PDF] Part 3: Representational and Architectural Considerations [PDF] | |
| Modeling Cross-Sensory and Sensorimotor Correlations to Detect and Localize Faults in Mobile Robots | |
| Z. Kira | |
| compressed postscript (250 KB) | pdf (199 KB) |
| Analyzing Social Situations for Human-Robot Interaction | |
| A.R. Wagner and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (630 KB) | pdf (535 KB) |
| Adaptive Teams of Autonomous Aerial and Ground Robots for Situational Awareness | |
| M.A. Hsieh, A. Cowley, J.F. Keller, L. Chaimowicz, B. Grocholsky, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor; Y. Endo and R.C. Arkin; B. Jung, D.F. Wolf and G.S. Sukhatme; D.C. MacKenzie | |
| This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Field Robotics, copyright 2007. | |
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| Anticipatory Robot Control for a Partially Observable Environment Using Episodic Memories | |
| Y. Endo | |
| compressed postscript (778 KB) | pdf (367 KB) |
| Lethality and Autonomous Robots: An Ethical Stance | |
| R.C. Arkin and L. Moshkina | |
| compressed postscript (91 KB) | pdf (117 KB) |
| On the Ethical Quandaries of a Practicing Roboticist: A first-hand look | |
| R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (209 KB) | pdf (171 KB) |
| Robotic Discovery of the Auditory Scene | |
| E. Martinson and A. Schultz | |
| compressed postscript (1.4 MB) | pdf (341 KB) |
| Multi-method Learning and Assimilation | |
| S. Takamuku and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (4.3 MB) | pdf (2.7 MB) |
2006
| An Integrative Framework for Time-Varying Affective Agent Behavior | |
| L. Moshkina | |
| compressed postscript (144 KB) | pdf (107 KB) |
| Auditory Evidence Grids | |
| E. Martinson and A. Schultz | |
| compressed postscript (1.7 MB) | pdf (456 KB) |
| Auditory Perspective Taking | |
| E. Martinson and D. Brock | |
| compressed postscript (772 KB) | pdf (172 KB) |
| From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: a Cognitively-inspired Action Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture | |
| S. Chernova and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.8 MB) | pdf (655 KB) |
| Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Design and Implementation | |
| P. Ulam, Y. Endo, A. Wagner, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.1 MB) | pdf (864 KB) |
| Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Part 2: Testing and Evaluation | |
| P. Ulam, Y. Endo, A. Wagner, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.4 MB) | pdf (940 KB) |
| Behavioral Overlays for Non-Verbal Communication Expression on a Humanoid Robot [Autonomous Robots] | |
| A.G. Brooks and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.7 MB) | pdf (1.6 MB) |
| Biasing Behavioral Activation with Intent | |
| P. Ulam and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.6 MB) | pdf (1.6 MB) |
| A Framework for Situation-based Social Interaction | |
| A. Wagner and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.5 MB) | pdf (229 KB) |
| Applying Heuristic Evaluation to Human-Robot Interaction Systems | |
| E. Clarkson and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (881 KB) | pdf (130 KB) |
| Multi-robot User Interface Modeling | |
| A.R. Wagner, Y. Endo, P. Ulam, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (2.0 MB) | pdf (175 KB) |
2005
| An Empirical Evaluation of Context-Sensitive Pose Estimators in an Urban Outdoor Environment | |
| Y. Endo, P.D. Ulam, R.C. Arkin, T.R. Balch, and M.D. Powers | |
| compressed postscript (285 KB) | pdf (220 KB) |
| Usability Evaluation of an Automated Mission Repair Mechanism for Mobile Robot Mission Specification | |
| L. Moshkina, Y. Endo, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (2.3 MB) | pdf (449 KB) |
| Anticipatory and Improvisational Robot via Recollection and Exploitation of Episodic Memories | |
| Y. Endo | |
| compressed postscript (228 KB) | pdf (177 KB) |
| Spatio-Temporal Case-Based Reasoning for Efficient Reactive Robot Navigation | |
| M. Likhachev, M. Kaess, Z. Kira, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (5.1 MB) | pdf (2.7 MB) |
| Behavior-Grounded Representation of Tool Affordances | |
| A. Stoytchev | |
| compressed postscript (979 KB) | pdf (170 KB) |
2004
| Noise Maps for Acoustically Sensitive Navigation | |
| E. Martinson, R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (15 MB) | pdf (1.6 MB) |
| Human Perspective on Affective Robotic Behavior: A Longitudinal Study | |
| L. Moshkina, R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (424 KB) | pdf (148 KB) |
| Reactive Speed Control System Based on Terrain Roughness Detection | |
| M. Castelnovi, R.C. Arkin, and T.R. Collins | |
| compressed postscript (17 MB) | pdf (3.7 MB) |
| Forgetting Bad Behavior: Memory Management for Case-Based Navigation | |
| Z. Kira, R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (689 KB) | pdf (283 KB) |
| PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-Based and Cell-Based Planning | |
| A. Ranganathan, S. Koenig | |
| compressed postscript (4.0 MB) | pdf (711 KB) |
| Metaphor of Politics: A Mechanism of Coalition Formation | |
| R. Sorbello, A. Chella, and R.C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.8 MB) | pdf (906 KB) |
2003
| Design of an Agile Unmanned Combat Vehicle - A Product of the DARPA UGCV Program | |
| L. Thornhill, A. Walls, R.C. Arkin, J. Beno, C. Bergh, D. Bresie, A. Giovannetti, B. Gothard, Larry Matthies, P. Nogueiro, J. Scanlon, R. Scott, M. Simon, W. Smith, and K. Waldron | |
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| Niche Selection for Foraging Tasks in Multi-Robot Teams Using Reinforcement Learning | |
| Patrick Ulam and Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (66 KB) | pdf (188 KB) |
| Value-Based Communication Preservation for Mobile Robots | |
| Matthew Powers and Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (1.4 MB) | pdf (901 KB) |
| Multi-Robot Communication-Sensitive Reconnaissance | |
| Alan R.Wagner and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (945 KB) | pdf (357 KB) |
| When Good Comms Go Bad: Communications Recovery For Multi-Robot Teams | |
| Patrick Ulam and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.6 MB) | pdf (319 KB) |
| Towards Performance Guarantees For Emergent Behavior | |
| Damian M. Lyons and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (298 KB) | pdf (302 KB) |
| Efficient Particle Filter-Based Tracking of Multiple Interacting Targets Using an MRF-based Motion Model | |
| Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert | |
| compressed postscript (805 KB) | pdf (252 KB) |
| Intrinsic Localization and Mapping with 2 Applications: Diffusion Mapping and Marco Polo Localization | |
| F. Dellaert, F. Alegre and E. Martinson | |
| compressed postscript (617 KB) | pdf (422 KB) |
| Marco Polo Localization | |
| E. Martinson and F. Dellaert | |
| compressed postscript (354 KB) | pdf (111 KB) |
| Moving Up the Food Chain: Motivation and Emotion in Behavior-Based Robots | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.9 MB) | pdf (965 KB) |
| Mobile Robots at Your Fingertip: Bezier Curve On-line Trajectory Generation for Supervisory Control | |
| Jung-Hoon Hwang, Ronald C. Arkin, and Dong-Soo Kwon | |
| compressed postscript (333 KB) | pdf (386 KB) |
| On TAMEing Robots | |
| Lilia Moshkina and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (91 KB) | pdf (70 KB) |
| Adaptive Multi-Robot Behavior via Learning Momentum | |
| Brian Lee and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.8 MB) | pdf (533 KB) |
| A Reactive Robot Architecture with Planning on Demand | |
| Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig | |
| compressed postscript (1.2 MB) | pdf (786 KB) |
| Anticipatory Robot Navigation by Simultaneously Localizing and Building a Cognitive Map | |
| Yoichiro Endo and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (227 KB) | pdf (248 KB) |
| Internalized Plans for Communication-Sensitive Robot Team Behaviors | |
| Alan R.Wagner, Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (733 KB) | pdf (444 KB) |
| Proprioceptive Control for a Robotic Vehicle Over Geometric Obstacles | |
| Kenneth J. Waldron, Ronald C. Arkin, Douglas Bakkum, Ernest Merrill, and Muhammad Abdallah | |
| compressed postscript (512 KB) | pdf (317 KB) |
| Compact Encoding of Robot-Generated 3D Maps for Efficient Wireless Transmission | |
| Michael Kaess, Ronald C. Arkin, and Jarek Rossignac | |
| compressed postscript (524 KB) | pdf (545 KB) |
| Multistrategy Learning Methods for Multirobot Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Yoichiro Endo, Brian Lee, Douglas C. MacKenzie, and Eric Martinson | |
| compressed postscript (301 KB) | pdf (305 KB) |
| Learning to Role-Switch in Multi-Robot Systems | |
| Eric Martinson and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (936 KB) | pdf (363 KB) |
2002
| The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: A Marsupial Team for Urban Search and Rescue | |
| Frank Dellaert, Tucker Balch, Michael Kaess, Ram Ravichandran, Fernando Alegre, Marc Berhault, Robert McGuire, Ernest Merrill, Lilia Moshkina, and Daniel Walker | |
| compressed postscript (3.6 MB) | pdf (446 KB) |
| Linear 2D Localization and Mapping for Single and Multiple Robots | |
| F. Dellaert and A. Stroupe | |
| compressed postscript (716 KB) | pdf (225 KB) |
| Incremental Replanning for Mapping | |
| Maxim Likhachev, and Sven Koenig | |
| compressed postscript (164 KB) | pdf (148 KB) |
| Robot Behavioral Selection Using Q-learning | |
| Eric Martinson, Alexander Stoytchev, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (6.5 MB) | pdf (2.8 MB) |
| An Ethological and Emotional Basis for Human-Robot Interaction | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Masahiro Fujita, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Rika Hasegawa | |
| compressed postscript (241 KB) | pdf (295 KB) |
| Usability Evaluation of High-Level User Assistance for Robot Mission Specification | |
| Yoichiro Endo, Douglas C. MacKenzie, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.2 MB) | pdf (1017 KB) |
| Improved Fast Replanning for Robot Navigation in Unknown Terrain | |
| Sven Koenig, and Maxim Likhachev | |
| compressed postscript (122 KB) | pdf (180 KB) |
2001
| Distributed Sensor Fusion for Object Position Estimation by Multi-Robot Systems | |
| Stroupe, A., Martin, M. and Balch, T. | |
| compressed postscript (4.4 MB) | pdf (425 KB) |
| Selection of Behavioral Parameters: Integration of Discontinuous Switching via Case-Based Reasoning with Continuous Adaptation via Learning Momentum | |
| J. Brian Lee, Maxim Likhachev, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (377 KB) | pdf (351 KB) |
| Learning Behavioral Parameterization Using Spatio-Temporal Case-Based Reasoning | |
| Maxim Likhachev, Michael Kaess, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.1 MB) | pdf (891 KB) |
| Line-of-Sight Constrained Exploration for Reactive Multiagent Robotic Teams | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Jonathan Diaz | |
| compressed postscript (976 KB) | pdf (707 KB) |
| Local Navigation Strategies for a Team of Robots | |
| Antonio Sgorbissa and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (933 KB) | pdf (750 KB) |
| Exploring Unknown Structured Environments | |
| Jonathan F. Diaz, Alexander Stoychev, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (780 KB) | pdf (223 KB) |
| Ethological Modeling and Architecture for an Entertainment Robot | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Masahiro Fujita,Tsuyoshi Takagi, and Rika Hasegawa | |
| compressed postscript (231 KB) | pdf (204 KB) |
| Greedy Mapping of Terrain | |
| Sven Koenig, Craig Tovey, William Halliburton | |
| compressed postscript (874 KB) | pdf (409 KB) |
| Probabilistic Planning for Behavior-Based Robotics | |
| Sven Koenig, Amin Atrash | |
| compressed postscript (410 KB) | pdf (162 KB) |
2000
| Implementing Tolman's Schematic Sowbug: Behavior-Based Robotics in the 1930's | |
| Yoichiro Endo and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.1 MB) | pdf (892 KB) |
| Spatio-Temporal Case Based Reasoning for Behavioral Selection | |
| Maxim Likhachev and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.2 MB) | pdf (862 KB) |
| Learning Momentum: Integration and Experimentation | |
| J. Brian Lee and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.3 MB) | pdf (882 KB) |
| Combining Deliberation, Reactivity and Motivation in the Context of a Behavior-Based Robot Architecture | |
| Alexander Stoytchev and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (2.4 MB) | pdf (805 KB) |
| Robotic Comfort Zones | |
| Maxim Likhachev and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (929 KB) | pdf (730 KB) |
| Field Results for Tactical Mobile Robot Missions | |
| Thomas R. Collins, Ronald C. Arkin, Michael J. Cramer, and Yoichiro Endo | |
| compressed postscript (1.1 MB) | pdf (667 KB) |
| Neuronal Networks Working at Multiple Temporal Scales as a Basis for Amphibia's Prey-Catching Behavior | |
| Francisco Cervantes-Perez, Luis R. Flores-Castillo, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (576 KB) | pdf (394 KB) |
| Tactical Mobile Robot Mission Specification and Execution | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Thomas R. Collins, Yoichiro Endo | |
| compressed postscript (3.2 MB) | pdf (2.5 MB) |
| Real-time Cooperative Behavior for Tactical Mobile Robot Teams; Skills Impact Study for Tactical Mobile Robot Operational Units | |
| Georgia Tech College of Computing and Georgia Tech Research Institute | |
| compressed postscript (4.2 MB) | pdf (4.0 MB) |
1999
| Using the Condensation Algorithm for Robust, Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization | |
| F. Dellaert, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun | |
| compressed postscript (1.2 MB) | pdf (379 KB) |
| Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots | |
| F. Dellaert, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun | |
| compressed postscript (877 KB) | pdf (3.3 MB) |
| Reward and Diversity in Multirobot Foraging | |
| Balch, T.R. | |
| compressed postscript (740 KB) | pdf (208 KB) |
| Multiagent Telerobotics: Matching Systems to Tasks | |
| Khaled S. Ali, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
| compressed postscript (2.5 MB) | pdf (1.1 MB) |
| Behavioral Models of the Praying Mantis as a Basis for Robotic Behavior | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Khaled S. Ali, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, and Francisco Cervantes-Perez | |
| compressed postscript (6.0 MB) | pdf (1.3 MB) |
| Behavior-based Formation Control for Multi-robot Teams | |
| Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.6 MB) | pdf (843 KB) |
1998
| Behavioral Diversity in Learning Robot Teams | |
| Tucker Balch, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
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| Implementing Schema-theoretic Models of Animal Behavior in Robotic Systems | |
| Khaled S. Ali and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (4.7 MB) | pdf (860 KB) |
| Evaluating the Usability of Robot Programming Toolsets | |
| Douglas C. MacKenzie and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (756 KB) | pdf (821 KB) |
| Igloos on the Equator - Position paper for AAAI Spring Symposium 98 | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Visualization of Multi-level Neural-based Robotic Systems | |
| Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Ronald C. Arkin, Francisco Cervantes, and Jose F. Peniche | |
| compressed postscript (267 KB) | pdf (331 KB) |
| A Neural Schema Architecture for Autonomous Robots | |
| Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Ronald C. Arkin, Francisco Cervantes, Roberto Olivares, and Fernando Corbacho | |
| compressed postscript (914 KB) | pdf (864 KB) |
1997
| Design and Implementation of a Teleautonomous Hummer | |
| Darrin C. Bentivegna, Khaled S. Ali, Ronald C. Arkin, and Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (783 KB) | pdf (740 KB) |
| Ecological Robotics: A Schema-theoretic Approach | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Francisco Cervantes-Perez and Alfredo Weitzenfeld | |
| compressed postscript (490 KB) | pdf (491 KB) |
| Integrating RL and Behavior-based Control for Soccer | |
| Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (262 KB) | pdf (313 KB) |
| Multiagent Teleautonomous Behavioral Control | |
| Khaled Ali and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (906 KB) | pdf (761 KB) |
| Learning of Parameter-Adaptive Reactive Controllers for Robotic Navigation | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria and Ashwin Ram | |
| compressed postscript (120 KB) | pdf (238 KB) |
| A New Heuristic Approach for Dual Control | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria and Ashwin Ram | |
| compressed postscript (79 KB) | pdf (263 KB) |
| Design Methodology for the Configuration of Behavior-Based Robots | |
| Douglas C. Mackenzie, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
| compressed postscript (5.4 MB) | pdf (4.2 MB) |
| Cooperative Multiagent Robotic Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (902 KB) | pdf (813 KB) |
| Multiagent Mission Specification and Execution | |
| Doug MacKenzie, Ronald C. Arkin, and Jonathan Cameron | |
| compressed postscript (2.2 MB) | pdf (1.8 MB) |
| AuRA: Principles and Practice in Review | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (312 KB) | pdf (419 KB) |
| Learning Roles: Behavioral Diversity in Robot Teams | |
| Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (50 KB) | pdf (174 KB) |
| Social Entropy: a New Metric for Learning Multi-robot Teams | |
| Tucker Balch | |
| compressed postscript (53 KB) | pdf (196 KB) |
| Model-Based Reconfiguration of Schema-Based Reactive Control Architectures | |
| Ashok Goel, Eleni Stroulia, Zhong Chen, and Paul Rowland | |
| compressed postscript (54 KB) | pdf (151 KB) |
| The Development of a Shared Interdisciplinary Intelligent Mechatronics Laboratory | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Kok-Meng Lee, Leon F. McGinnis, and Chen Zhou | |
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1996
| Experiments with Reinforcement Learning in Problems with Continuous State and Action Spaces | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria, Richard S. Sutton, and Ashwin Ram | |
| compressed postscript (185 KB) | pdf (606 KB) |
| Behavior-Based Mobile Manipulation for Drum Sampling | |
| Doug MacKenzie and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (2.8 MB) | pdf (1.9 MB) |
1995
| Development of Visual Tracking Algorithms for an Autonomous Helicopter | |
| David E. Cardoze and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.1 MB) | pdf (1002 KB) |
| Intelligent Robotic Systems - Editorial Introduction | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (24 KB) | pdf (103 KB) |
| Io, Ganymede and Callisto - a Multiagent Robot Janitorial Team | |
| Doug MacKenzie and Juan Carlos Santamaria | |
| compressed postscript (373 KB) | pdf (475 KB) |
| Just What is a Robot Architecture Anyway? Turing Equivalence versus Organizing Principles | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (29 KB) | pdf (103 KB) |
| Model-Based Echolocation of Environmental Objects | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (147 KB) | pdf (259 KB) |
| Motor Schema-based Formation Control for Multiagent Robot Teams | |
| Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (93 KB) | pdf (175 KB) |
| Reactive Robotic Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (24 KB) | pdf (85 KB) |
| Specification and Execution of Multiagent Missions | |
| Doug MacKenzie, Jonathan Cameron, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.6 MB) | pdf (1.2 MB) |
| Structured Light System for Dent Recognition: Lessons Learned | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (973 KB) | pdf (1019 KB) |
1994
| Planning to Behave: A Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Control Architecture for Mobile Manipulation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Douglas C. Mackenzie | |
| compressed postscript (195 KB) | pdf (178 KB) |
| Communication in Reactive Multiagent Robotic Systems | |
| Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (1.8 MB) | pdf (1.9 MB) |
| Dynamic Scheduling for Obstacle Avoidance in Mobile Robots | |
| Tucker Balch, Harold Forbes and Karsten Schwan | |
| compressed postscript (66 KB) | pdf (228 KB) |
| Narrow Aisle Mobile Robot Navigation in Hazardous Environments | |
| Thomas Collins, Andrew Henshaw, Ronald C. Arkin, and William Wester | |
| compressed postscript (281 KB) | pdf (B) |
| Using Genetic Algorithms to Learn Reactive Control Parameters for Autonomous Robotic Navigation | |
| Ashwin Ram, Ronald C. Arkin | |
| compressed postscript (158 KB) | pdf (330 KB) |
| Integration of Reactive and Telerobotic Control in Multi-Agent Robotic Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Khaled S. Ali | |
| compressed postscript (131 KB) | pdf (203 KB) |
| Integration of Reactive Navigation with a Flexible Parallel Hardware Architecture | |
| Thomas R. Collins, Ronald C. Arkin and Andrew M. Henshaw | |
| compressed postscript (67 KB) | pdf (102 KB) |
| Temporal Coordination of Perceptual Algorithms for Mobile Robot Navigation | |
| Arkin, R.C. and MacKenzie, D. | |
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1993
| Avoiding the Past: A Simple but Effective Strategy for Reactive Navigation | |
| Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin | |
| Request by email | |
| Buzz, An Instantiation of a schema-based reactive robotic system | |
| Arkin, R.C., Balch, T., Collins, T., Henshaw, A., MacKenzie, D., Nitz, E., Rodriguez, R., and Ward, K. | |
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| Making a Clean Sweep: Behavior-based Vacuuming | |
| MacKenzie, D. and Balch, T | |
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| Knowledge Compilation and Speedup Learning in Continuous Task Domains | |
| Juan Carlos Santamaria and Ashwin Ram | |
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| A Multistrategy Case-Based and Reinforcement Learning Approach to Self-Improving Reactive Control Systems for Autonomous Robotic Navigation | |
| Ashwin Ram and Juan Carlos Santamaria | |
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| Multistrategy Learning in Reactive Control Systems for Autonomous Robotic Navigation | |
| Ashwin Ram and Juan Carlos Santamaria | |
| compressed postscript (230 KB) | pdf (455 KB) |
| Reactive Control of a Mobile Manipulator Using Pseudo-joint Damping | |
| Keith R. Ward and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Communication of Behavioral State in Multi-Agent Retrieval Tasks | |
| Arkin, R.C., Balch, T., and Nitz, E. | |
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| Reactive Control for Mobile Manipulation | |
| Cameron, J.M., MacKenzie, D.C., Ward, K.R., Arkin, R.C., and Book, W.J. | |
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| Active Avoidance: Escape and Dodging Behaviors for Reactive Control | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, William M. Carter, and Douglas C. Mackenzie | |
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| Survivable Robotic Systems: Reactive and Homeostatic Control | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Homeostatic Control for a Mobile Robot: Dynamic Replanning in Hazardous Environments | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Formal Specification for Behavior-Based Mobile Robots | |
| Douglas C. MacKenzie and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Modeling Neural Function at the Schema Level: Implications and Results for Robotic Control | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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1992
| Case-Based Reactive Navigation: A case-based method for on-line selection and adaptation of reactive control parameters in autonomous robotics systems | |
| Ashwin Ram, Ronald C. Arkin, Kenneth Moorman, and Russell J. Clark | |
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| Learning Momentum: On-line Performance Enhancement for Reactive Systems | |
| Rusell J. Clark, and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| The Learning of Reactive control Parameters through Genetic Algorithms | |
| Michael Pearce, Ronald C. Arkin, and Ashwin Ram | |
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| A Case-Based Approach to Reactive Control for Autonomous Robots | |
| Kenneth Moorman and Ashwin Ram | |
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| Integrated Control for Mobile Manipulation for Intelligent Materials Handling | |
| R.C. Arkin, W.J. Book, D.T. Lawton, G. Vachtsevanos, D.C. MacKenzie, S. Arya, J. Cameron, W. Gardner, V. Ramanathan, C. Son, and K.R. Ward | |
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| SFX: An Architecture For Action-oriented Sensor Fusion | |
| Murphy, R.R. and Arkin, R.C. | |
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| Cooperation without Communication: Multiagent Schema-Based Robot Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Behavior-Based Robot Navigation for Extended Domains | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Autonomous Helicopter Position Determination Using an On-Board Integrated Vision System | |
| Douglas C. MacKenzie and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-agent Robotic Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and J. David Hobbs | |
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1991
| The Multiple Dimensions of Action-Oriented Robotic. Perception: Fission, Fusion, and Fashion | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Perceptual Support for Ballistic Motion in Docking for a Mobile Robot | |
| Douglas C. MacKenzie and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Reactive Control as a Substrate for Telerobotic Systems | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Visual Interaction in Diagnostic Radiology | |
| Rogers, E., Arkin, R.C., and Baron, M. | |
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| Visual Interaction: A Link Between Perception and Problem Solving | |
| Rogers, E. and Arkin, R.C. | |
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| Spatial Uncertainty Management for a Mobile Robot | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Survival of Falling Robots | |
| Jonathan M. Cameron and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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1990
| Autonomous Navigation in a Manufacturing Environment | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and Robin R. Murphy | |
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| The Impact of Cybernetics on the Design of a Mobile Robotic System: A Case Study | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Visual Protocol Collection for the Enhancement of the Radiological Diagnostic Process | |
| Rogers, E., Arkin, R.C., Baron, M., Ezquerra, N., Garcia, E | |
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| Reactive Inclinometer-based Mobile Robot Navigation | |
| Arkin, R.C. and Gardner, W.F. | |
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| Adaptive Tracking for a Mobile Robot | |
| Murphy, R.R. and Arkin, R.C. | |
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| Qualitative Fault Propagation in Complex Systems | |
| Arkin, R.C. and Vachtsevanos, G. | |
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| Qualitative Spatial Understanding and Reactive Control for Autonomous Robots | |
| Lawton, D.T., Arkin, R.C., and Cameron, J.M. | |
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| Reactive Behavioral Support for Qualitative Visual Navigation | |
| Arkin, R.C. and Lawton, D.T. | |
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| 3D Navigational Path Planning | |
| T.M. Rao and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Integrating Behavioral, Perceptual, and World Knowledge in Reactive Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Techniques for Robot Survivability | |
| Ronald C. Arkin and George Vachtsevanos | |
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1989
| Towards the Unification of Navigational Planning and Reactive Control | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Workstation Recognition using a Constrained Edge Based Hough Transform for Mobile Robot Navigation | |
| David L. Vaughn and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Dynamic Replanning for a Mobile Robot Based on Internal Sensing | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Mobile Robot Docking Operations in a Manufacturing Environment: Progress in Visual Perceptual Strategies | |
| Arkin, R.C., Murphy, R., Pearson, M., Vaughn, D. | |
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| 3D Path Planning for Flying/Crawling Robots | |
| T.M. Rao and Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Motor Schema-Based Mobile Robot Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Navigational Path Planning for a Vision-Based Mobile Robot | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Three-dimensional Motor Schema Based Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Neuroscience in Motion: The Application of Schema Theory to Mobile Robotics | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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1988
| Intelligent Mobile Robots in the Workplace: Leaving the Guide Behind | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Homeostatic Control for a Mobile Robot: Dynamic Replanning in Hazardous Environments | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| Spatial Uncertainty Management for a Mobile Robot and its Role in Expectation-Based Perception | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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1987
| Towards Cosmopolitan Robots: Intelligent Navigation in Extended Man-made Environments | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Ph.D. Dissertation | |
| Front Matter | |
| Chapter 1 | |
| Chapter 2 | |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Chapter 5 | |
| Chapter 6 | |
| Chapter 7 | |
| Chapter 8 | |
| Chapter 9 | |
| Appendices | |
| Bibliography | |
| Motor Schema Based Navigation for a Mobile Robot: An Approach to Programming by Behavior | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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| AuRA: An Architecture for Vision-Based Robot Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Edward M. Riseman, and Allen R. Hanson | |
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| Visual Depth Recovery for Obstacle Avoidance in a Mobile Robot | |
| Seraj Bharwani, Ronald C. Arkin, Edward Riseman, and Allen Hanson | |
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| Visual Strategies for Mobile Robot Navigation | |
| Ronald C. Arkin, Edward Riseman, and Allen Hanson | |
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| Reactive/Reflexive Navigation for an Autonomous Vehicle | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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1986
| Path Planning for a Vision-Based Autonomous Robot | |
| Ronald C. Arkin | |
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