K-Team Products in Papers & Books

Many scientific articles, chapters and books have been written featuring K-Team products. Links to them as well as links to two research indexes are given below.

The Founding of Khepera:

Mondada, F., Franzi, E., and Ienne, P. 1993. Mobile robot miniaturization: a tool for investigation in control algorithms. In Yoshikawa, T. and Miyazaki, F. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.

Compatibility of Koala and Khepera:

Floreano, D. and Mondada, F., Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots, Neural Networks, v11, n7-8, October 1998, p1461-1478.

Khepera, its Accessories and Koala:

Floreano D. and Mondada F. Hardware solutions for evolutionary robotics. In Husbands P. and Meyer JA. , editors, Proc. of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Khepera for Collective Robotics:

• A. Martinoli and F. Mondada. Collective and cooperative group behaviours: Biologically inspired experiments in robotics. In O. Khatib and J. K. Salisbury, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Experimental Robotics ISER-95, pages 3–10, Stanford, U.S.A., June 1995. Springer Verlag.
• Krieger, M. J. B., Billeter, J.-B., Keller, L. 2000. Ant-like task allocation and recruitment in co-operative robots. Nature, 406, 992-995. 2000.
  A group of Khepera are programmed to share tasks using rules derived from the behaviour of ants. Their ant-inspired algorithm provides a simple and efficient means of regulating activity (the collection of food items) within teams of robots.
• Lyuba Alboul, Hussein S. Abdul-Rahman, Paul S. Haynes, Jacques Penders and Julien Tharin. GUARDIANS multi-robot team as a self-organising
  system. Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Third International Conference, ICIRA. 2010.

Khepera for Navigation:

• A. Arleo, J. del R. Millan, and W. Gerstner. Hippocampal Spatial Model for State Space Representation in Reinforcement Learning. Technical Report 99/316, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999.
• A. Prorok, A. Arfire, A. Bahr, J. Farserotu, and A. Martinoli.
  Indoor Navigation Research with the Khepera III Mobile Robot: An Experimental Baseline with a Case-study on Ultra-wideband Positioning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, pages 1-9, 2010.
• S. Gowal, A. Prorok and A. Martinoli.
  Two-Phase Online Calibration for Infrared-based Inter-Robot Positioning Modules. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011.
• A. Prorok and A. Martinoli.
  A Reciprocal Sampling Algorithm for Lightweight Distributed Multi-Robot Localization. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011.
• S. Gowal and A. Martinoli.
  Bayesian Rendezvous for Distributed Robotic Systems. IEEE/RSJ 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011.
• S. Gowal, R. Falconi and A. Martinoli.
  Local Graph-based Distributed Control for Safe Highway Platooning. IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010.
• R. Falconi, S. Gowal and A. Martinoli.
  Graph based distributed control of non-holonomic vehicles endowed with local positioning information engaged in escorting missions. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA, May 3-7, 2010.
• A. Prorok, P. Tomé and M. Alcherio.
  Accommodation of NLOS for Ultra-Wideband TDOA Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Portugal, September 21-23, 2011.
• R. Falconi, S. Gowal and A. Martinoli.
  Graph-Based Distributed Control for Non-holonomic Vehicles Engaged in a Reconfiguration Task using Local Positioning Information. 2nd International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, Odense, March 31-April 2, 2009

Proceedings on Khepera Experiments:

• Autonomous minirobots for research and edutainment AMIRE2001 / Ulrich Rückert. Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Universität Paderborn. HNI-Verlagsschriftenreihe. ISBN 3-935433-06-9
• Experiments with the Mini-Robot Khepera: Proceedings of the 1st International Khepera Workshop, December 1999 / Löffler, Axel. Mondada, Francesco. Rückert, Ulrich. Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Universität Paderborn. HNI-Verlagsschriftenreihe. ISBN 3-931466-63-9

Research Books based on Khepera:

• Evolutionary Robotics, S. Nolfi, D. Floreano, MIT Press, 2000.
  Related: Source code of Khepera simulator described in the book.
• Understanding Intelligence, R. Pfeifer, C. Scheier, MIT Press, 1999.
  Related: Web site about source code described in the book.
• Idées nettes sur la logique floue, J. Godjevac, PPUR, 1997.
• Des moutons et des robots, Architecture de contrôle réactive et déplacements collectifs de robots, P. Arnaud, PPUR, 2000.

Education Book based on Khepera:

• An Introduction to AI Robotics, R. Murphy, MIT Press, 2000.

Chapters in Book:

• Saucy, P. and Mondada, F., “KhepOnTheWeb: One Year of Access to a Mobile Robot on the Internet”, In K. Goldberg and R. Siegwart (eds.), Beyond Webcams, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2002.
• Floreano, D., Nolfi, S., and Mondada, F., “Co-Evolution and Ontogenetic Change in Competing Robots”. In M. Patel, V. Honavar, and K. Balakrishnan (eds.), Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2001.
• W. Bechtel, A. Abrahamsen, “Evolution and Development in Khepera”, In Connectionism and The Mind, Blackwell Publisher, 2001.
• Floreano, D., Godjevac, J., Martinoli, A., Mondada, F., Nicoud, J-D., “Design, Control, and Applications of Autonomous Mobile Robots”, In Tzafestas, S. G. (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Agents, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
• F. Mondada and D. Floreano, “Evolution and Mobile Robotics” , In “Towards Evolvable Hardware”, E. Sanchez and M. Tommasini Eds., Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 221-249.

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