This article addresses the concurrency issues affecting behavior trees (BTs), a popular tool
to model the behaviors of autonomous agents in the video game and the robotics industry …

Heterogeneous teams of multiple mobile robots will be important for future scientific
explorations of extraterrestrial surfaces or hazardous areas. Mission operation in such …

For widespread deployment of robots in challenging environments (fire fighting, search and
rescue, planetary exploration, etc.), the software of the robot must allow for reliability and …

The paper develops a robotic manipulation system to meet the pressing needs for handling
a large number of test tubes in clinical examination and replace or reduce human labor. It …

Robot behavior designers commonly select one method–eg A* or RRT–that is assumed to
have the appropriate trade-off for a given domain between computational load, computation …

Today, increased demands for personalized products are making human-robot collaborative
tasks a focus of research mainly for improving production cycle time, precision, and …

Robots have revolutionized industrial automation. Automation has many advantages—for
employees and companies alike—and counteracts the shortage of skilled workers. That is …