Cellular structures manifest their outstanding mechanical properties in many biological
systems. One key challenge for designing and optimizing these geometrically complicated …

Coverage control is the problem of navigating a robot swarm to collaboratively monitor
features or a phenomenon of interest not known a priori. The problem is challenging in …

This paper presents an algorithm to generate a new kind of polygonal mesh obtained from
triangulations. Each polygon is built from a terminal-edge region surrounded by edges that …

Fine-grained navigation is becoming increasingly demanded in urban areas. However,
current navigation software fails to provide accurate paths on grounds without roads (GWR) …

Mapping is an important task for mobile robots. The assessment of the quality of maps in a
simple, efficient and automated way is not trivial and an ongoing research topic. Here, a new …

Representing a scanned map of the real environment as a topological structure is an
important research topic in robotics. Since topological representations of maps save a huge …

Mapping is an important task for mobile robots. But assessing the quality of maps in a
simple, efficient and automated way is not trivial and an ongoing research topic. A new …

Topological maps are often used in robotics. This paper presents a novel topological map
representation, the Area Graph, and how to extract it from 2D grid maps. This representation …

We show that sterically interacting self-propelled disks in the presence of random pinning
substrates exhibit transitions among a variety of different states. In particular, from a phase …

Being able to generate maps is a significant capability for mobile robots. Measuring the
performance of robotic systems in general, but also particularly of their mapping, is important …