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Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

Localization is one of the key challenges that needs to be considered beforehand to design truly autonomous MAV teams. In this paper, we present a cooperative method to address the localization problem for a team of MAVs, where individuals obtain their pos ...

2014

Improving Skills and Perception in Robot Navigation by an Augmented Virtuality Assistance System

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Tom Edward Carlson, Tomas de Jesus Mateo Sanguino

Successful navigation in a teleoperation scenario requires a good level of situational or environmental awareness. This paper presents the main features and capabilities of a new augmented virtuality-based system aimed at providing users with improved perc ...

Springer Verlag2014

Learning Force and Position Constraints in Human-robot Cooperative Transportation

Sylvain Calinon

Physical interaction between humans and robots arises a large set of challenging problems involving hardware, safety, control and cognitive aspects, among others. In this context, the cooperative (two or more people/robots) transportation of bulky loads in ...

2014

SVO: Fast Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry

Davide Scaramuzza

We propose a semi-direct monocular visual odometry algorithm that is precise, robust, and faster than current state-of-the-art methods. The semi-direct approach eliminates the need of costly feature extraction and robust matching techniques for motion esti ...

2014

Fuzzy Control System for Autonomous Navigation and Parking of Thymio II Mobile Robots

Francesco Mondada

This paper proposed a fuzzy controller for the autonomous navigation problem of robotic systems in a dynamic and uncertain environment. In particular, we are interested in determining the robot motion to reach the target while ensuring their own safety and ...

2014

Accurate Indoor Localization with Ultra-Wideband using Spatial Models and Collaboration

Alcherio Martinoli, Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok

Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization is a recent technology that performs competitively with many indoor localization methods currently available. Despite its desirable traits, such as potential high accuracy and high material penetrability, the resolution of ...

SAGE Publications2014

Dynamics Modeling and Control Architecture for Efficient, Manoeuvrable and Robust Monoped Hopping over Rough Terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji, Soha Pouya, Rico Möckel

Leg dynamics and control have been widely studied using mass-spring systems such as the Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) model [1]. The SLIP model is commonly accepted as the simplest model that resembles leg dynamics. While simplicity facilitates th ...

2013

Models and Algorithms for Ultra-Wideband Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems

Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok

Location is a piece of information that empowers almost any type of application. In contrast to the outdoors, where global navigation satellite systems provide geo-spatial positioning, there are still millions of square meters of indoor space that are unac ...

EPFL2013

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific locations by robots with the required skills. We focus on the question of how the s ...

Springer Verlag2013

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

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