IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - September 2011 - 1

Vol. 18, No. 3 September 2011
ISSN 1070-9932
http://www.ieee-ras.org/ram

FEATURES

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24 Robotic Surgery
Formal Verification of Plans

© PHOTO COURTESY OF
WWW.ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ALEXANDR MITIUC

By Riccardo Muradore, Davide Bresolin, Luca Geretti,
Paolo Fiorini, and Tiziano Villa

33 Hybrid Systems in Robotics
Toward Reachability-Based Controller Design
By Jerry Ding, Jeremy H. Gillula, Haomiao Huang,
Michael P. Vitus, Wei Zhang, and Claire J. Tomlin

44 Semiautonomous Multivehicle Safety
A Hybrid Control Approach
By Rajeev Verma and Domitilla Del Vecchio

55 Motion Planning with Complex Goals
A Multilayered Synergistic Approach
By Amit Bhatia, Matthew R. Maly, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Moshe Y. Vardi

65 Correct, Reactive, High-Level Robot Control
Mitigating the State Explosion Problem
of Temporal Logic Synthesis
By Hadas Kress-Gazit, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, and Ufuk Topcu

75 Automatic Deployment of Robotic Teams
An Automata Theoretic Approach
By Xu Chu Ding, Marius Kloetzer, Yushan Chen, and Calin Belta

87 Automatic Sequencing of Ballet Poses
A Formal Approach to Phrase Generation
By Amy LaViers, Yushan Chen, Calin Belta, and Magnus Egerstedt

96 A Three-DoF Actuated Robot
A Minimal Tensegrity Configuration
By Josep M. Mirats-Tur and Josep Camps
ON THE COVER
The cover shows one of VisLab
autonomous cars in Ufa. The
full story of this vehicle and its
journey from Italy to China can
be found on p. 120.

104 A Mosaic of Eyes
For Wireless Navigation and Control of Mobile Robots
By Ping Jiang, Zuren Feng, Yongqiang Cheng, Yuanxiang Ji, Jin Zhu,
Xiaonian Wang, Feng Tian, John Baruch, and Fun Hu

© COVER PHOTO BY OLGA ANDRYUKHINA

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2011.942123

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