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Monday, November 16, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

From Local Snapshots to a Global Picture

Peter Widmayer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

We study conditions under which certain types of cheap and simple microrobots with limited sensing abilities can infer a global view of their environment from a series of local observations. We show examples for sensing equipment that is sufficient for certain tasks at hand when the robots move inside a polygon in the plane.

Host: Shiva Kasiviswanathan