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How can human motion prediction increase transparency?

A major issue in the field of human-robot interaction for assistance to manipulation is transparency. This basic feature qualifies the capacity for a robot to follow human movements without any human-perceptible resistive forces. In this paper we address t ...

2008

Distributed Adaptation in Multi-Robot Search using Particle Swarm Optimization

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh

We present an adaptive strategy for a group of robots engaged in the localization of multiple targets. The robotic search algorithm is inspired by chemotaxis behavior in bacteria, and the algorithmic parameters are updated using a distributed implementatio ...

2008

Comparing coordination schemes for miniature robotic swarms: A case study in boundary coverage of regular structures

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll, Samuel Rutishauser

We consider boundary coverage of a regular structure by a swarm of miniature robots, and compare a suite of three fully distributed coordination algorithms experimentally. All algorithms rely on boundary coverage by reactive control, whereas coordination o ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Synthesis, modeling, and experimental validation of distributed robotic search

James Pugh

The work of this thesis centers around the research subject of distributed robotic search. Within the field of distributed robotic systems, a task of particular interest is attempting to locate one or more targets in a possibly unknown environment. While n ...

EPFL2008

On the influence of symbols and myths in the responsibility ascription problem in roboethics - A roboticist’s perspective

Aude Billard, Pierre-André Mudry, Sarah Dégallier Rochat

Because of the increasing developments of humanoid robots, humans and robots are going to interact more and more often in the near future. Thus, the need for a well-defined ethical framework in which these interactions will take place is very acute. In thi ...

2008

Audio-visual detection of multiple chirping robots

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy

Design, study, and control of mixed animals-robots societies are the fields of scientific exploration that can bring new opportunities for study and control of groups of social insects and animals and, in particular, for improvement of welfare and breeding ...

IOS Press2008

Evolution of solitary and group transport behaviors for autonomous robots capable of self-assembling

Roderich Gross

Group transport is being performed in many natural systems and has become a canonical task for studying cooperation in robotics. We simulate a system of simple, insect-like robots that can move autonomously and grasp objects as well as each other. We use a ...

2008

A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, James Pugh

A new algorithm for the control of formations of mobile robots is presented. Formations with a triangular lattice structure are created using distributed control rules, using only local information on each robot. The overall direction of movement of the fo ...

2008

Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development

Frédéric Kaplan

Exploratory activities seem to be intrinsicallyrewarding for children and crucial for their cognitive development. Can a machine be endowed with such an intrinsic motivation system? This is the question we study in this paper, presenting a number of comput ...

2007

Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants

Markus Waibel

The evolution of cooperation is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology and the social sciences. Hundreds of theoretical models have been proposed, but empirical research has been hindered by the generation time of social organisms and by the difficul ...

EPFL2007

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