Robot Links

Note : I just started this page so many relevant links may not be listed

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Robot Pages :

Serpentine Robotics Project : NASA

The Ants: A Community of Microrobots : MIT

Collective Robotics : CalTech (slides)


The MultiRobot Lab : CMU


Asynchronous Teams of Autonomous Agents : CMU


Robot Societies : Helsinky University of Technology


Robot Societies Publications : Helsinky University of Technology


Collective Robotic Intelligence Project : University of Alberta


Vision based World Modeling for Mobile Robot Exploration : University of Alberta


On-line Proceedings : IJCAI-99 workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robot Navigation


The Mobile Robot Laboratory Home Page : Georgia Tech (includes some multi-agent projects)


On-Line Publications of the USC Robotics Research Laboratory : USC


Interaction Lab : USC


Cooperating Autonomous Robots : Oakridge National Labs


Ant Robotics : Technion

TAMU Robotics : Texas A&M : general robotics page with lots of links

Papers :

Note : not all of these are specific to ant robots

• Robot Algorithms : D. Halperin, L. Kavraki, and J. Latombe from
  http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~halperin/publications.html

• My Travels With my A(u)nts : Distributed Ant Robotics : Israel Wagner's Homepage : Many Ant Robot Papers

• Selected Papers of Joe Mitchell : Sweeping Simple Polygons with a Chain of Guards : A. Efrat, L. J. Guibas, S. Har-Peled, D. C. Lin, J. S. B. Mitchell, and T. M. Murali

• Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids : R. V. Sole, E. Bonabeau, J. Delgado, P. Fernández, and J. Marín

• Behavior-Based Robotics (book) MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998 : R.C. Arkin

• Sampling and Mapping :

  • CCCG97 online proceedings : Sampling and Reconstructing Manifolds Using Alpha-Shapes : F. Bernardini and C. L. Bajaj

  • Some Publications from Texas A&M : MAPRM: A Probabilistic Roadmap Planner with Sampling on the Medial Axis of the Free Space : S. A. Wilmarth, N. M. Amato, P. F. Stiller

  • Lucia K. Dale : Faster, More Effective Connection for Probabilistic Roadmaps : L. K. Dale, G. Song, N. M. Amato

• Shortest Paths :
  • Selected Papers of Joe Mitchell : Geometric Shortest Paths and Network Optimization :
    J. S. B. Mitchell

  • Introduction to Algorithms (book) : T. H. Corman, C. E. Leiserson, and R. L. Rivest : basic shortest path algorithms on graphs

• From CRC Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry :
  • "Algorithmic Motion Planning" : M. Sharir

  • "Robotics" : D. Halperin, L. Kavraki, and J. Latombe

  • "Shortest Paths and Networks" : J. S. B. Mitchell : A short version of the survey listed above

• Probability :

  • Randomized Algorithms (book) : R. Motwani and P. Raghavan

  • A Course in Probability Theory (book) : K. L. Chung

People :

• Elizeth G. Araujo

• Ron Arkin

• Tucker Balch

• George A. Bekey

• Aude Billard

• Rodney A. Brooks

• Ashok Goel

• Roderic A. Grupen

• Maja J. Mataric'

• Lynne E. Parker

• Gaurav S. Sukhatme

• David Tao

• Richard T. Vaughn

• Manuela Veloso

• Hong Zhang

Theory :

• Pankaj K. Agarwal
  

• Dan Halperin

• Micha Sharir

Supplies :

Mondo-tronics' Robot Store

Acroname Inc.

Robot Books.Com

Arrick Robotics

Joker Robotics

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Misc :

• Encoder : Newsletter of the Seattle Robotics Society

• Some General Robot Links