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Construction par procédé additif réalisée avec des robots mobiles autonomes hétérogènes

This thesis lies at the crossroad of three research fields: heterogenous mobile collective robotics, autonomous construction with mobile robots and 3D printing. The main goal of this work is to implement and study an innovative way to interact and modify t ...

EPFL2015

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey

Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Inverse kinematics and reflex based controller for body-limb coordination of a salamander-like robot walking on uneven terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat, Robin Thandiackal, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, Laura Deanne Fleury

Search and rescue (SAR) missions are being carried out by several types of robots. They include ground, marine and air vehicles depending on the terrain and mission to be tackled. A particular niche for SAR activities are shallow waters. They present high ...

IEEE2015

Autonomous Construction of Separated Artifacts by Mobile Robots Using SLAM and Stigmergy

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Autonomous mobile robots equipped with arms have the potential to be used for automated construction of structures in various sizes and shapes, such as houses or other infrastructures. Existing construction processes, like many other additive manufacturing ...

2015

A Holistic Approach to Energy Harvesting for Indoor Robots

Florian Christopher Vaussard

Service robotics is a fast expanding market. Inside households, domestic robots can now accomplish numerous tasks, such as floor cleaning, surveillance, or remote presence. Their sales have considerably increased over the past years. Whereas 1.05 million d ...

EPFL2015

Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

Ludovic Daler

There is a growing interest in using robots in dangerous environments, such as for exploration, search-and-rescue or monitoring applications, in order to reduce the risks for workers or rescuers and to improve their efficiency. Typically, flying robots off ...

EPFL2015

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

The demand for bendable sensors increases constantly in the challenging field of soft and micro-scale robotics. We present here, in more detail, the flexible, functional, insect-inspired curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) that was previously introduc ...

Mdpi Ag2014

A Miniature Mobile Robot Developed to be Socially Integrated with Species of Small Fish

Francesco Mondada, Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira

A robot accepted by animals as conspecific is a very powerful tool in behavioral biology, particularly in studies of gregarious animals. In this paper we present the first results of acceptance of a robotic fish designed for experiments on collective anima ...

2014

Improved Lighthill fish swimming model for bio-inspired robots: Modeling, computational aspects and experimental comparisons

Auke Ijspeert, Mathieu Porez

The best known analytical model of swimming was originally developed by Lighthill and is known as the large amplitude elongated body theory (LAEBT). Recently, this theory has been improved and adapted to robotics through a series of studies ranging from hy ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014

Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots

Dario Floreano, Bryan Edward Schubert, Jürg Markus Germann

With the ongoing rise of soft robots there emerges a need for new soft robotic technologies that can cope with hyper-flexibility and stretchability. In this paper, we describe our developments on enabling controllable adhesion, namely electroadhesion, for ...

Ieee2014

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