With the advent of the Internet and the progressive development and consolidation of a wide
range of web standards and technologies as well as the advances in distributed artificial …

Abstract Robotic Development Environments (RDEs) have come to play an increasingly
important role in robotics research in general, and for the development of architectures for …

Mobile robot reliability must be guaranteed before they can be employed in hazardous
domains like mine clearing or nuclear waste handling, but recent studies of robots used in …

Faults that occur in an autonomous robot system negatively affect its dependability. The aim
of truly dependable and autonomous systems requires that one has to deal with these faults …

This report offers an overview of principal approaches to task allocation in the context of
mobile robotics, with a strong focus in solutions used in service and field robotics. Popular …

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) and fault tolerant control (FTC) are increasingly
important for wheeled mobile robots (WMRs), especially those in unknown environments …

The problem of obstacle avoidance for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) under the event
of sensor failure is addressed in this paper. An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) equipped with a …

As mobile robot teams become more complex, it is necessary to develop a control
architecture to manage the resources present in the team. The Distributed Field Robot …

Rare category detection (RCD) is an important topicin data mining, focusing on identifying
the initial examples fromrare classes in imbalanced data sets. This problem becomes more …

Dead reckoning error is a common problem in robotics that can be caused by multiple
factors related to sensors or actuators. These errors potentially cause landmarks recorded …