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Environmental Field Estimation with Hybrid-Mobility Sensor Networks

Alcherio Martinoli, William Christopher Evans, Duarte Da Cruz Baptista Dias, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The remarkable accessibility of modern flying robots makes them an attractive platform for environmental sensing. However, low cost and ease of use are currently incompatible with large payloads, severely limiting the choice of sensor and ultimately modali ...

Ieee2016

Fixed-wing drones for communication networks

Maja Varga

In the last decade, drones became frequently used to provide eye-in-the-sky overview in the outdoor environment. Their main advantage compared to the other types of robots is that they can fly above obstacles and rough terrains and they can quickly cover l ...

EPFL2016

From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia

Measuring ``how much the human is in the interaction'' -- the level of engagement -- is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly observable. This art ...

Ieee2016

From Real-time Attention Assessment to "With-me-ness" in Human-Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Fernando Garcia

Measuring "how much the human is in the interaction" - the level of engagement - is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly observable. This article ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Intearcting Brownian Swarms: Some Analytical Results

Max-Olivier Hongler, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti

We consider the dynamics of swarms of scalar Brownian agents subject to local imitation mechanisms implemented using mutual rank-based interactions. For appropriate values of the underlying control parameters, the swarm propagates tightly and the distances ...

MDPI AG2016

Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services

Aude Billard, Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez, Ana-Lucia Ureche, Zhou Fang

In this paper we discuss how the combination of modern technologies in "big data" storage and management, knowledge representation and processing, cloud-based computation, and web technology can help the robotics community to establish and strengthen an op ...

Ieee2016

Fluid-Mediated Stochastic Self-Assembly at Centimetric and Sub-Millimetric Scales: Design, Modeling, and Control

Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégory Mermoud, Bahar Haghighat

Stochastic self-assembly provides promising means for building micro-/nano-structures with a variety of properties and functionalities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the control and modeling of the process in engineered self-assembling systems co ...

MDPI2016

"On-the-spot Training" for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams

Davide Scaramuzza, Luca Maria Gambardella

We consider the problem of performing rapid training of a terrain classier in the context of a collaborative robotic search and rescue system. Our system uses a vision-based flying robot to guide a ground robot through unknown terrain to a goal location by ...

2016

Adaptation and coaching of periodic motion primitives through physical and visual interaction

Tadej Petric

In this paper we propose and evaluate a control system to (1) learn and (2) adapt robot motion for continuous non-rigid contact with the environment. We present the approach in the context of wiping surfaces with robots. Our approach is based on learning b ...

2016

Designing a virtual whole body tactile sensor suit for a simulated humanoid robot using inverse dynamics

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture to estimate external forces applied to a compliantly controlled balancing robot in simulations. We use similar dynamics equations used in the controller to find mismatches in the available sensory data and ass ...

Ieee2016

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