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Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Self-localization of an underwater vehicle is particularly challenging due to the absence of Global Positioning System (GPS) reception or features at known positions that could otherwise have been used for position computation. Thus Autonomous Underwater V ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Oceanographic Institution2009

Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Laurent Winkler

Swarming without positioning information is interesting in application- oriented systems because it alleviates the need for sensors which are dependent on the environment, expensive in terms of energy, cost, size and weight, or unusable at useful ranges fo ...

2008

Design and control of amphibious robots with multiple degrees of freedom

Alessandro Crespi

This thesis presents the design and realization of two generations of robot elements that can be assembled together to construct amphibious mobile robots. These elements, designed to be individually waterproof and having their own battery, motor controller ...

EPFL2007

Relative Localization and Communication Module for Small-Scale Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh

We characterize and improve an existing infrared relative localization/communication module used to find range and bearing between robots in small-scale multi-robot systems. Modifications to the algorithms of the original system are suggested which offer b ...

2006

Flexible micro manipulation platform based on tethered cm3-sized mobile micro robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

This paper presents a micro manipulation platform based on several cm3-sized mobile micro robots. The proposed platform consists of a high resolution XY stage with the mobile micro robots on top of it, a camera with a microscopic objective for the local vi ...

2005

Autonomous Navigation and Security: A 13000h/3000km Case Study

Roland Siegwart, Nicola Tomatis, Grégoire Terrien

This paper presents the design of an autonomous mobile platform and its security system. The MB835 mobile platform has been adopted for RoboX, a fully autonomous tour guide robot. In 2002, 11 of these tour guides have served the Robotics exhibition at Expo ...

2004

Nouveaux concepts de locomotion pour véhicules tout-terrain robotisés

Michel Lauria

Robotic ground vehicles are mechanisms that use gravity and contact forces with the ground to perform motion. They can either be wheeled, tracked or legged. In this thesis we will focus on n-wheeled vehicles able to perform ground following motion with all ...

EPFL2003

Topological Analysis of Robotic N-Wheeled Ground Vehicles

Roland Siegwart, Michel Lauria

Robotic ground vehicles are systems that use gravity and contact forces with the ground to perform motion. In this paper we will focus on n-wheeled vehicles able to perform motion with all the wheels maintaining contact at the same time. The main goal of t ...

2003

On developing a voice-enabled interface for interactive tour-guide robots

Andrzej Drygajlo, Plamen Prodanov

This paper considers design methodologies in order to develop voice-enabled interfaces for tour-guide robots deployed at the Robotics Exposition of the Swiss National Exhibition (Expo.02). Human–robot voice communication presents new challenges for design ...

2003

Design, Implementation and Exploitation of a New Fully Autonomous Tour Guide Robot

Roland Siegwart, Nicola Tomatis, Björn Jensen, Kai Oliver Arras, Roland Philippsen

This paper presents the genesis of a tour guide robot, which has been built from the scratch based on the experience of the Autonomous Systems Lab. The production of 11 of those machines has been realized by a spin-off of the lab: BlueBotics SA. The goal w ...

2003

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