Title
Courteous Cars
Abstract
In this article, we have demonstrated, through the parking and leaving example, how high-level specifications containing multiple temporally dependent goals can be given to a team of realistic robots, which in turn automatically satisfy them. By switching between low-level feedback control policies and moving in a well-behaved environment, the correctness of each robot's behavior is guaranteed by the automaton. The system satisfies the high-level specification without needing to plan the low-level motions in configuration space. Sensor inputs play a crucial role in this framework. A hazard input becoming true at the wrong time may lead to deadlock. Deciding when and how long to stop is a hard problem even for humans, as sometimes demonstrated at four-way stops, let alone robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/M-RA.2007.914921
IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Robotics and automation,Robot kinematics,Robot sensing systems,Feedback control,Automata,Orbital robotics,Logic,Automatic control,Computer science,Shape
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1070-9932
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hadas Kress-Gazit172758.58
David Conner220.43
Howie Choset32826257.12
Alfred A. Rizzi41208179.03
George Pappas56632540.42