Robotics is an emerging synthetic science concerned with programming work. Robot
technologies are quickly advancing beyond the insights of the existing science. More secure …

This paper addresses the lower limits of encoding and processing the information acquired
through interactions between an internal system (robot algorithms or software) and an …

This article examines the selection of a robot's actuation and sensing hardware to minimize
the cost of that design while ensuring that the robot is capable of carrying out a plan to …

This paper applies the principles of Virtual Reality (VR) to robots, rather than living
organisms. A simulator, of either physical states or information states, renders outputs to …

The contemporary era struggles with the intricate challenge of designing “complex systems”.
These systems are characterized by intricate webs of interactions that interlace their …

Typically to a roboticist, a plan is the outcome of other work, a synthesized object that
realizes ends defined by some problem; plans qua plans are seldom treated as first-class …

This paper discusses the integration challenges and strategies for designing mobile robots,
by focusing on the task-driven, optimal selection of hardware and software to balance safety …

Whether a robot can perform some specific task depends on several aspects, including the
robot's sensors and the plans it possesses. We are interested in search algorithms that treat …

Recent research has examined algorithms to minimize robots' resource footprints. The class
of combinatorial filters (discrete variants of widely-used probabilistic estimators) has been …

We are motivated by the problem of comparing the complexity of one robotic task relative to
another. To this end, we define a notion of reduction that formalizes the following intuition …