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Towards edible robots and robotic food
Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake
Edible robots and robotic food — edible systems that perceive, process and act upon stimulation — could open a new range of opportunities in health care, environmental management and the promotion of healthier eating habits. For example, they could enable ...
2024Design of a Flexure-Based Flywheel for the Storage of Angular Momentum and Kinetic Energy
Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Patrick Robert Flückiger
The flywheel is a widespread mechanical component used for the storage of kinetic energy and angular momentum. It typically consists of cylindrical inertia rotating about its axis on rolling bearings, which involves undesired friction, lubrication, and wea ...
2024A lunar reconnaissance drone for cooperative exploration and high-resolution mapping of extreme locations
David Rodriguez Martinez, Daniel Tataru, Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
An efficient characterization of scientifically significant locations is essential prior to the return of humans to the Moon. The highest resolution imagery acquired from orbit of south-polar shadowed regions and other relevant locations remains, at best, ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024Targeted worker removal reveals a lack of flexibility in brood transport specialisation with no compensatory gain in efficiency
Mahmut Selman Sakar, Laurent Keller, Fazil Emre Uslu
Division of labour is widely thought to increase the task efficiency of eusocial insects. Workers can switch their task to compensate for sudden changes in demand, providing flexible task allocation. In combination with automated tracking technology, we de ...
2024Geometric Learning: Leveraging differential geometry for learning and control
In this thesis, we concentrate on advancing high-level behavioral control policies for robotic systems within the framework of Dynamical Systems (DS). Throughout the course of this research, a unifying thread weaving through diverse fields emerges, and tha ...
EPFL2024Seeking the new, learning from the unexpected: Computational models of surprise and novelty in the brain
Human babies have a natural desire to interact with new toys and objects, through which they learn how the world around them works, e.g., that glass shatters when dropped, but a rubber ball does not. When their predictions are proven incorrect, such as whe ...
EPFL2024Dynamic Voxels Based on Ego-Conditioned Prediction: An Integrated Spatio-Temporal Framework for Motion Planning
Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Ting Zhang
Prediction is a vital component of motion planning for autonomous vehicles (AVs). By reasoning about the possible behavior of other target agents, the ego vehicle (EV) can navigate safely, efficiently, and politely. However, most of the existing work overl ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024VDMNav: Software Architecture for Aerodynamically Constrained Navigation on Small Fixed-Wing Drones
Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré
Navigation of drones is predominantly based on sensor fusion algorithms. Most of these algorithms make use of some form of Bayesian filtering with a majority employing an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), wherein inertial measurements are fused with a Global N ...
2024Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC
Aude Billard, Mikhail Koptev, Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez
Dynamical system (DS) based motion planning offers collision-free motion, with closed-loop reactivity thanks to their analytical expression. It ensures that obstacles are not penetrated by reshaping a nominal DS through matrix modulation, which is construc ...
Sage Publications Ltd2024Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones
Dario Floreano, Valentin Wüest, Fabio Bergonti
The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required, shape-shifting (morphing) drones represent an efficient solution. However, m ...
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