IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - June 2015 - 1

Vol. 22, No. 2 JUNE 2015
ISSN 1070-9932
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FEATURES
24 Flying Smartphones

Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics
By Giuseppe Loianno, Gareth Cross, Chao Qu,
Yash Mulgaonkar, Joel A. Hesch, and Vijay Kumar

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33 Automated Vitrification of Embryos
A Robotics Approach

By Jun Liu, Chaoyang Shi, Jun Wen, Derek Pyne, Haijiao Liu,
Changhai Ru, Jun Luo, Shaorong Xie, and Yu Sun

41 Cloud Automation

Precomputing Roadmaps for Flexible Manipulation
By Kostas E. Bekris, Rahul Shome, Athanasios Krontiris, and
Andrew Dobson

51 Radiation Queue

Meeting Patient Waiting Time Targets
By Siqiao Li, Na Geng, and Xiaolan Xie

64 Short-Term Scheduling of Crude-Oil Operations
Enhancement of Crude-Oil Operations Scheduling Using
a Petri Net-Based Control-Theoretic Approach
By NaiQi Wu, MengChu Zhou, and ZhiWu Li

ON THE COVER
Loianno et al. describe how an emerging, low-cost
consumer electronics technology can be used to
control personal drones for home automation.

77 Coordinating Autonomy

Sequential Resource Allocation Systems for Automation
By Spyros Reveliotis

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