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Analysis of Impact of an Annual Robotics Festival

Francesco Mondada, Julia Fink, Fanny Riedo, Mariza Freire

For four years a robotics festival has taken place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. As the number of visitors has rapidly grown from a few thousands to a dozen thousands, it gives an opportunity to investigate who is ...

IEEE2012

Autonomous construction using scarce resources in unknown environments - Ingredients for an intelligent robotic interaction with the physical world

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Roland Philippsen

The goal of creating machines that autonomously perform useful work in a safe, robust and intelligent manner continues to motivate robotics research. Achieving this autonomy requires capabilities for understanding the environment, physically interacting wi ...

Springer Verlag2012

Anthropomorphism and Human Likeness in the Design of Robots and Human-Robot Interaction

Julia Fink

In this literature review we explain anthropomorphism and its role in the design of socially interactive robots and human-robot interaction. We illus-trate the social phenomenon of anthropomorphism which describes people’s tendency to attribute lifelike qu ...

Springer2012

Distributed consensus for interaction between humans and mobile robot swarms

The purpose of the demonstrator is to present a novel system for gesture-based interaction between humans and a swarm of mobile robots. The human interacts with the swarm by showing hand gestures using an orange glove. Following initial hand glove detectio ...

2012

Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers through Incremental Shaping

Joshua Evan Auerbach

Evolutionary robotics has been shown to be an effective technique for generating robot behaviors that are difficult to derive analytically from the robot’s mechanics and task environment. Moreover, augmenting evolutionary algorithms with environmental scaf ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

Aude Billard, Pawel Lichocki

This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss v ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Motion Learning and Adaptive Impedance for Robot Control during Physical Interaction with Humans

Aude Billard, Elena Gribovskaya

One of the hallmarks of physical interaction between humans is haptic communication, i.e. an informa- tion exchange through force signals. Humans excel in tasks that require such interaction by adapting impedance and anticipating the partner’s intentions. ...

2011

Coupled dynamical system based hand-arm grasp planning under real-time perturbations

Aude Billard, Ashwini Shukla

Robustness to perturbation has been advocated as a key element to robot control and efforts in that direction are numerous. While in essence these approaches aim at "endowing robots with a flexibility similar to that displayed by humans", few have actually ...

MIT Press2011

Soft Robotics: Challenges and Perspectives

There has been an increasing interest in the use of unconventional materials and morphologies in robotic systems because the underlying mechanical properties (such as body shapes, elasticity, viscosity, softness, density and stickiness) are crucial researc ...

Elsevier Science, Reg Sales Off, Customer Support Dept, 655 Ave Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

A Social Approach for Target Localization: Simulation and Implementation in the marXbot Robot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Andres Perez-Uribe, Andres Upegui

Foraging is a common benchmark problem in collective robotics in which a robot (the forager) explores a given environment while collecting items for further deposition at specific locations. A typical real-world application of foraging is garbage collectio ...

2011

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