In the evenings, they fly loudly over our cities, circle over parks, and suddenly settle by the hundreds in bare trees. For some, it seems like a scene from a horror movie–for biologists, it’s a ...

Abstract: The ability of autonomous subtask generation is important for robots to effectively cope with unforeseen situations during indoor search and rescue missions. While prior work mainly focused ...

Abstract: As the number of satellites and satellite tasks continues to increase, multi-satellite collaboration task planning faces several challenges, including high complexity, high timeliness and ...

Bitterly cold arctic air has blanketed parts of the United States over the last week, with some areas getting snow and subzero temperatures. Along with the cold weather comes a natural event called ...

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Behavior Trees (BTs) has recently gained attention in the robotics community, yet remains in its early stages of development. In this paper, we ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Severe cold temperatures hitting much of the country this week could branch out − literally. As people brace for the winter weather, some social media posts in recent days have warned of the chance ...