Publications by José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

Graph-Based Distributed Control for Adaptive Multi-Robot Patrolling through Local Formation Transformation

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen, Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura

Multi-robot cooperative navigation in real-world environments is essential in many applications, including surveillance and search-and-rescue missions. State-of-the-art methods for cooperative navigation are often tested in ideal laboratory conditions and ...

Ieee2016

Institutional Robotics Institutions for Social Robots

José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The way human beings engage with material things in our environment is experiencing rapid modification. Human and non-human, natural and artificial creatures are on the verge of building unprecedented relations of sociability. This paper takes this process ...

Springer2015

Lidar-Based Relative Position Estimation and Tracking for Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen, Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura

Relative positioning systems play a vital role in current multi-robot systems. We present a self-contained detection and tracking approach, where a robot estimates a distance (range) and an angle (bearing) to another robot using measurements extracted from ...

Springer2015

Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The work described is part of a long term program of introducing institutional robotics, a novel framework for the coordination of robot teams that stems from institutional economics concepts. Under the framework, institutions are cumulative sets of persis ...

2014

Advancing Social Interactions Among Robots : An Institutional Economics-based Approach to Distributed Robotic Systems

José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

EPFL2014

An Experimental Study in Wireless Connectivity Maintenance Using up to 40 Robots Coordinated by an Institutional Robotics Approach

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

This work is developed in the framework of Institutional Robotics (IR), an approach to cooperative distributed robotic systems that draws inspiration from the social sciences. We consider a case study concerned with a swarm of simple robots which has to ma ...

2013

Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

2011