GROSSO , Alberto

The increasing availability of sophisticated mobile network appliances, such as smartphones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), jointly with the maturity and cost-effectiveness of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology, allow the rapid development of smart environments. This can dramatically increase the users experience enabling...

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This paper presents a middleware for managing task allocation to agents (humans, robots, or software artifacts) operating in environments equipped with RFID technology. The system uses workflows and task decomposition techniques for preparing a task plan, and exploits the RFID technology for distributing and deploying the tasks within the...

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A system for guiding one or more self-propelled apparatus (1), composed of one or more paths covered by self-propelled travelling apparatus, said paths having position identification devices (3,4) therealong, in which positions are stored, and which are arranged along each path at one or more locations thereof, and said identification devices...

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-robot coordination based both on coordinated navigation and task allocation method.The proposed approach exploits RFID technology for implementing a context aware information system which is the base of the coordination strategies; it has extremely low requirements in terms of computational power...

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This paper presents TRIPLAN, a distributed service-based software architecture providing the European travellers, who are planning their journeys, with high quality information in order to make them taking decisions about trip planning, by taking into account both predicted traffic conditions and real time ones. The TRIPLAN architecture is...

As research progresses in distributed robotic systems, more and more aspects of multi-robot systems are being explored. This dissertation focuses on multi-robot control systems and provides the model of an agent-based control architecture following the research that is ongoing in the field of distributed mobile robot systems. In this work, the...

This paper describes PatrolGRAPH, a novel real-time search algorithm which has been specifically designed to solve the "patrolling problem", i.e., the problem of repeatedly visiting a set of specific locations in the environment. The algorithm has extremely low requirements in terms of computational power, does not require inter-robot...