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Smooth and Efficient Obstacle Avoidance for a Tour Guide Robot

Roland Siegwart, Roland Philippsen

We present the local path planning and obstacle avoidance method used on the autonomous tour-guide robot RoboX. It has proven its value during a 5 month operation of ten such robots in a real-world application, a very crowded exhibition. Three known approa ...

2003

Diversity and Specialization in Collaborative Swarm Systems

Alcherio Martinoli

This paper addresses qualitative and quantitative diversity and specialization issues in the frame- work of self-organizing, distributed, artificial systems. Both diversity and specialization are obtained via distributed learning from initially homogeneous ...

2003

LameAlice, a Nanorover for Planetary Exploration

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Pierre Lamon, Michel Lauria

The recent advances in micro-technology made it possible to realize very small autonomous robots. Such mobile micro-robots have many potential applications. Especially in space exploration, where weight and size is a very dominant issue, mobile micro-robot ...

2003

Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey

We describe a new experimental approach whereby an indoor flying robot evolves the ability to navigate in a textured room using only visual information and neuromorphic control. The architecture of a spiking neural circuit, which is connected to the vision ...

2002

A POEtic Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware

Eduardo Sanchez, Yann Thoma, Daniel Roggen

The implementation of bio-inspired systems in hardware has traditionally been more a matter of artistry than of method. The reasons are multiple, but one of the main problems has always been the lack of a universal platform, of a standardized architecture, ...

2002

Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

In this article we describe a methodology for evolving neurocontrollers of autonomous mobile robots without human intervention. The presentation, which spans from technological and methodological issues to several experimental results on evolution of physi ...

1998

Towards Peak Torque Minimization for Modular Self-Folding Robots

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Meibao Yao

Modular self-folding robots are versatile systems that can change their own shape from two-dimensional patterns at instant commands. This reconfigurability is commonly restrained by power limitation in autonomous environments, The robotic systems with insu ...

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