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A Holistic Approach to Energy Harvesting for Indoor Robots

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

Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction in Domestic Environments

Julia Fink

Domestic service robots are nowadays widely available on the consumer market. As such, robots have begun entering people’s homes and daily lives. However, it seems that the dissemination of domestic robots has not happened as easily and widespread as it wa ...

EPFL2014

The Autonomous Photovoltaic MarXbot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Martin Olivier Liniger

Domestic service robots are currently powered by the mains electricity. The growing multiplication of such devices negatively impacts our environment. In this study, we show the feasibility of harvesting energy from natural light in an indoor environment. ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Living With a Vacuum Cleaning Robot - A 6-month Ethnographic Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

Little is known about the usage, adoption process and long-term effects of domestic service robots in people’s homes. We investigated the usage, acceptance and process of adoption of a vacuum cleaning robot in nine households by means of a six month ethnog ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Will Your Household Adopt Your New Robot?

Julia Fink

Domestic robots have slowly found their way into some of our homes and onto the shelves of major stores selling technical appliances. Who hasn’t already seen or heard of robots that vacuum or mow the lawn? As researchers in robotics, we feel this growing c ...

2012

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard

The market of domestic service robots, and especially vacuum cleaners, has kept growing during the past decade. According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 1 million units were sold worldwide in 2010. Currently, there is no in-depth an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explor ...

Springer2011

Cooperative transport of objects of different shapes and sizes

Roderich Gross

This paper addresses the design of control policies for groups of up to 16 simple autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) for the cooperative transport of heavy objects of different shapes and sizes. The s-bots are capable of establishing physical connect ...

Springer Verlag2004

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