I started Brief 288 talking about Rovio, a home exploration and telepresence robot, but the photo we showed, we think is called "Mr. Personality".
The commission said that it unanimously endorsed Mr. Bush's plan and added that the pay-as-you-go approach could work if public and political support for space exploration by humans and robots could be maintained for several decades.
The SSH is inspired by the properties of the human cognitive map, and is intended to serve both as a model of the human cognitive map and as a method for robot exploration and map-building.
For testing, demonstration, and validation purposes, we have implemented the approach in a robotic platform called ModRED (Modular Robot for Exploration and Discovery).
This paper addresses the question of self-localisation in autonomous mobile robot navigation, i.e., the task of indentifying places after previous exploration and map building by the robot.
The ModRED (Modular Robot for Exploration and Discovery) modules are developed with rotary-plate genderless single sided docking mechanisms (RoGenSiD) that allow chain-type configurations and lead towards hybrid-type configurations.
For dispersion and exploration behaviors, robots are required to be able to move from one position to another, which is a basic characteristic implemented in almost all robots and, therefore, does not present any special design/implementation challenge.
The approach is based on Markov localization and provides rational criteria for (1) setting the robot's motion direction (exploration), and (2) determining the pointing direction of the sensors so as to most efficiently localize the robot.
In this paper, we consider an extension of the Simultaneous Multiple STC (S-MSTC) algorithm, which we proposed in our previous work on multiple autonomous robots used in exploration and coverage in an unknown terrain.
Based on the recent success of deep Q-network on artificial intelligence, the robot controller achieved the exploration and obstacle avoidance abilities in several different simulated environments.
