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Cooperative Navigation and Integration of a Human into Multi-robot System

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2011)

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Abstract

In the recent years, considerable research efforts have been conducted towards the control of a group of autonomous robots. A human moving cooperatively with a group of robots could as well broadly benefit in several applications (e.g. search and rescue operations). The key focus of this study is to investigate the inclusion of a human in the multi-robot system and consequently the robot motion coordination.

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  1. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Joan Saez-Pose & Amir M. Naghsh

  2. Universitat Jaume, Castello, Spain

    Leo Nomdedeu

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

  2. Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Horward Street, S1 1WB, Sheffield, UK

    Lyuba Alboul  & Jacques Penders  & 

  3. Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), University of Bristol and the West of England, Bristol Business Park, BS16 1QD, Bistol, UK

    Chris Melhuish

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Mark Witkowski

  5. Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Wstern Bank, S10 2TN, Sheffield, UK

    Tony J. Prescott

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Saez-Pose, J., Naghsh, A.M., Nomdedeu, L. (2011). Cooperative Navigation and Integration of a Human into Multi-robot System. In: Groß, R., Alboul, L., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M., Prescott, T.J., Penders, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_38

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