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SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Mirco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella

In this paper we introduce a new robotic system, called swarm-bot. The system consists of a swarm of mobile robots with the ability to connect to/disconnect from each other to self-assemble into different kinds of structures. First, we describe our vision ...

IEEE Press2002

SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Mirco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella

Service robotics, as it has been intended so far, views the accomplishment of a service mission mainly as the result of the action of a single robot. Swarm robotics tackles the very same problem from a different stance, \ie as the result of a team effort ...

2002

"Hands-On Mechatronics": Problem-Based Learning for Mechatronics

Roland Siegwart, Francesco Mondada, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet

The project "Hands-On Mechatronics" aims to develop a problem-based learning environment for mechatronics. This environment is based on four specific aspects: a mobile robot competition as motivation factor, a WEB environment as framework for all student, ...

2002

Interactions between Art and Mobile Robotic System Engineering

Francesco Mondada

The field of mobile robotics offers a new medium for public entertainment and art. Mobile robots can move, react, and interact in the real world, generating behaviors that can be used as a new artistic medium quite different from sculptures, drawings or vi ...

Springer2001

KhepOnTheWeb: open access to a mobile robot on the Internet

Francesco Mondada

For years research has focused on ways to allow remote access via standard communication networks to unique or expensive structures. With the growth of the Internet, one finds more and more devices connected to it. Despite the fact that one may spy on othe ...

2000

The Development of Khepera

Francesco Mondada, André Guignard

This short paper explains how the Khepera robot was developed, from the initial idea to the its commercialisation by K-Team. The goal of this paper is not a scientific analysis but an historical overview of the steps made in the development of this robot s ...

1999

Advances in Artificial Life

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL'99, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in September 1999. The 90 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The book ...

Springer Verlag1999

Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

Evolutionary robotics - as other adaptive methods, such as reinforcement learning and learning classifier systems - can take considerable time and resources which require a careful evaluation of the hardware tools and methodologies employed. We outline a s ...

Springer1998

Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

It is argued that competitive co-evolution is a viable methodology for developing truly autonomous and intelligent machines capable of setting their own goals in order to face new and continuously changing challenges. The paper starts giving an introductio ...

MIT Press1998

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