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Some applications require autonomous robots to search an initially unknown environment for static targets, without any a priori information about environment structure and target locations. Targets can be human victims in search and rescue or materials
in foraging. In these scenarios, the environment is incrementally discovered by the robots exploiting exploration strategies
to move around in an autonomous and effective way. Most of the strategies proposed in literature are based on the idea of
evaluating a number of candidate locations on the frontier between the known and the unknown portions of the environment according
to ad hoc utility functions that combine different criteria. In this paper, we show some of the advantages of using a more theoretically-grounded
approach, based on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), to define exploration strategies for robots employed in search and
rescue applications. We implemented some MCDM-based exploration strategies within an existing robot controller and we evaluated
their performance in a simulated environment. 相似文献
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Alberto Quattrini Li Riccardo Cipolleschi Michele Giusto Francesco Amigoni 《Autonomous Robots》2016,40(4):581-597
Coordinated multirobot exploration involves autonomous discovering and mapping of the features of initially unknown environments by using multiple robots. Autonomously exploring mobile robots are usually driven, both in selecting locations to visit and in assigning them to robots, by knowledge of the already explored portions of the environment, often represented in a metric map. In the literature, some works addressed the use of semantic knowledge in exploration, which, embedded in a semantic map, associates spatial concepts (like ‘rooms’ and ‘corridors’) with metric entities, showing its effectiveness in improving the total area explored by robots. In this paper, we build on these results and propose a system that exploits semantic information to push robots to explore relevant areas of initially unknown environments, according to a priori information provided by human users. Discovery of relevant areas is significant in some search and rescue settings, in which human rescuers can instruct robots to search for victims in specific areas, for example in cubicles if a disaster happened in an office building during working hours. We propose to speed up the exploration of specific areas by using semantic information both to select locations to visit and to determine the number of robots to allocate to those locations. In this way, for example, more robots could be assigned to a candidate location in a corridor, so the attached rooms can be explored faster. We tested our semantic-based multirobot exploration system within a reliable robot simulator and we evaluated its performance in realistic search and rescue indoor settings with respect to state-of-the-art approaches. 相似文献
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Synergistic effect of organoclay fillers based on fluorinated surfmers for preparation of polystyrene nanocomposites
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Chahinez Benbayer Salima Saidi‐Besbes Elisabeth Taffin de Givenchy Sonia Amigoni Frédéric Guittard Aicha Derdour 《应用聚合物科学杂志》2015,132(33)
Novel fluorinated reactive surfactants were used for the organic modification of monmorillonite clays. These organoclays were used for the preparation of polystyrene?clay nanocomposites by in‐situ free radical polymerization. Reference systems based on hydrocarbon homologous surfmer and nonpolymerizable surfactants were also used to deduce the effect of the fluorine moiety and the polymerizable function on the morphology and thermal stability of the prepared nanocomposites. Different structural parameters of the surfactants were investigated and modulated for the clay modification including: the nature of surfactant (surfmer/classical surfactant, fluorinated, or hydrocarbonated), the length of the fluorinated chain as well as the length of the hydrocarbon spacers linking the ammonium head to the fluorine chain or the polymerizable acrylic function. Wide angle‐X‐ray scattering (WAXD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and electronic microcopies (TEM and SEM) were used to establish a structure‐morphology, thermal properties relationships, and to highlight the key parameters governing the exfoliation process. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015 , 132, 42347. 相似文献
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Multiagent cooperative negotiation is a promising technique for modeling and controlling complex systems. Effective and flexible
cooperative negotiations are especially useful for open complex systems characterized by high decentralization (which implies
a low amount of exchanged information) and by dynamic connection and disconnection of agents. Applications include ad hoc
network management, vehicle formation, and physiological model combination. To obtain an effective control action, the stability of the negotiation, namely the guarantee that an agreement will be eventually reached, is of paramount importance. However,
the techniques usually employed for assessing the stability of a negotiation can be hardly applied in open scenarios. In this
paper, whose nature is mainly theoretical, we make a first attempt towards engineering stable cooperative negotiations proposing
a framework for their analysis and design. Specifically, we present a formal protocol for cooperative negotiations between a number of agents and we propose a criterion for negotiation stability based on the concept of connective stability. This is a form of stability that accounts for the effects of structural changes on the composition of a system and that
appears very suitable for multiagent cooperative negotiations. To show its possible uses, we apply our framework for connective
stability to some negotiations taken from literature. 相似文献
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L Solaini P Bagioni U Grandi E Angelini A Amigoni 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1996,51(12):1079-1082
The authors report their experience about 15 patients surgically treated for chronic large pericardial effusion; in 12 cases the etiology was malignant neoplasm, while in the other 3 cases was inflammatory disease. In 4 patients a simple subxiphoid pericardial drainage was carried out, while in the other cases a pericardial window was performed. These cases were managed using an anterior left thoracotomy in 8 patients and a videothoracoscopy in 3. The authors conclude that pericardial window with videothoracoscopic approach is the preferable procedure, but it cannot be used in every case because a lot of patients have seriously compromised conditions and the use of this technique can be hazardous. 相似文献
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Arnaud Zenerino Sonia Amigoni Elisabeth Taffin de Givenchy Denis Josse Frédéric Guittard 《Reactive and Functional Polymers》2013,73(8):1065-1071
The main difficulty still encountered in the elaboration of polymer/silica nanocomposites is the control of the nanoparticles dispersion homogeneity and the stability of the nanoparticle dispersion in the surrounding substance. The innovative point of this work is the elaboration of hybrid networks in aqueous solution performed with ASE (alkali swellable emulsion) thickeners grafted with silica nanoparticles. The thickening ability of the polymer should favour silica nanoparticles dispersion in fluid matrices. Two ASE copolymers were realised by copolymerisation in emulsion of MA (methacrylic acid) and EA (ethyl acrylate) and/or TFEM (trifluoroethyl methacrylate). The substitution of a part of EA by TFEM gave fluorinated ASE copolymers. Their free acid functions were then coupled with different ratio of amine functionalized silica nanoparticles to afford nanocomposites. The amounts of silica nanoparticles in the copolymers were determined by thermogravimetric experiments. Depending on the silica nanoparticles/copolymer ratio in basic aqueous solutions we achieved stable translucent gel like aqueous suspensions of silica nanoparticles containing 1 wt.% of the polymer/SiO2 nanocomposite. 相似文献
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Francesco Amigoni 《Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems》2008,52(3-4):417-445
Building multirobot systems exploiting mobile code technologies: this is quite an attractive possibility that, if successfully exploited, could very much improve the flexibility in development of systems composed of multiple mobile robots. In this paper we present two main contributions that constitute a significant step toward this ambitious scenario. In particular, we present architectural and technological solutions that enable both the mobility of code in a network of robots and the interfacing between robotic platforms and mobile code. Although we are aware that the results presented in this paper are still preliminary and limited, we demonstrate their promising potential with experiments involving two mobile robots. 相似文献
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Amigoni F. Gatti N. Pinciroli C. Roveri M. 《IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Part A, Systems and humans : a publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society》2005,35(1):7-21
The development of ambient intelligence (AmI) applications that effectively adapt to the needs of the users and environments requires, among other things, the presence of planning mechanisms for goal-oriented behavior. Planning is intended as the ability of an AmI system to build a course of actions that, when carried out by the devices in the environment, achieve a given goal. The problem of planning in AmI has not yet been adequately explored in literature. We propose a planning system for AmI applications, based on the hierarchical task network (HTN) approach and called distributed hierarchical task network (D- HTN), able to find courses of actions to address given goals. The plans produced by D-HTN are flexibly tailored to exploit the capabilities of the devices currently available in the environment in the best way. We discuss both the architecture and the implementation of D-HTN. Moreover, we present some of the experimental results that validated the proposed planner in a realistic application scenario in which an AmI system monitors and answers the needs of a diabetic patient. 相似文献
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Amigoni F. Brandolini A. Caglioti V. Vincenzo Di Lecce Guerriero A. Lazzaroni M. Lombardi F. Ottoboni R. Pasero E. Piuri V. Scotti O. Somenzi D. 《IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement》2006,55(4):1038-1050
This paper presents the main results obtained in the Agencies for PErception in environmental monitoring (APE) Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and aimed at studying the employment of advanced distributed artificial intelligence techniques in developing cooperative multiagent systems oriented to support environmental monitoring applications. In particular, this paper describes issues about communication between perceptive agents and two implemented multiagent systems for monitoring electromagnetic fields and for pollutant evaluation. 相似文献
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Experiments are essential ingredients of science, both to confirm/refute a theory and to discover new theories. It is a common
belief that experimentation in mobile robotics has not yet reached a level of maturity comparable with that reached in science,
for example in physics, considered as the paradigm of a mature, stable, and well-founded scientific discipline. In this paper,
starting from a representative sample of the current state of the art, we identify some basic issues of experiments in mobile
robot localization and mapping. These issues, when viewed in the context of some general principles about experiments in science
and engineering, lead us to derive some insightful considerations on the role of experiments in mobile robotics. Reflecting
the background of the authors, the paper has an interdisciplinary nature at the meeting point of mobile robotics and philosophy
of science. 相似文献