Publications by André Guignard

Salamandra Robotica II: An Amphibious Robot to Study Salamander-Like Swimming and Walking Gaits

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi, André Guignard, Konstantinos Karakasiliotis

In this paper, we present Salamandra robotica II: an amphibious salamander robot that is able to walk and swim. The robot has four legs and an actuated spine that allow it to perform anguilliform swimming in water and walking on the ground. The paper first ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

A miniature 7g jumping robot

Dario Floreano, André Guignard, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Martin Fuchs

Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. In this paper we present the development and characterization of a novel 5cm, 7g jumping robot. It can jump obstacles as h ...

2008

The Dof-Box Project: An Educational Kit for Configurable Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Aude Billard, André Guignard, Florent Günter, Olivier Barbey, Davis Daidié

This paper describes the Dof-Box, a modular, reconfigurable robot, used in Hands-on practicals of robotics taught to miroengineering students. We present the hardware and software of the robots and describe the pedagogical approach adopted in the practical ...

2007

A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light

Dario Floreano, André Guignard, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Jean-Daniel Nicoud

Unpowered flight can be used in microrobotics to overcome ground obstacles and to increase the traveling distance per energy unit. In order to explore the potential of goal-directed gliding in the domain of miniature robotics, we developed a 22cm microglid ...

Ieee Service Center2007

Design of a Biomimetic Upper Body for the Humanoid Robot Robota

Aude Billard, André Guignard, Florent Günter

This paper presents the current prototype of doll-shaped humanoid robot Robota. The use of the robot Robota as part of studies with disabled children sets a number of constraints on its design. In particular, it requires that the robot bears a human likene ...

2005

AmphiBot I: An amphibious snake-like robot

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi, André Guignard

Elsevier2005

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, André Guignard, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Christoph Studer

A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to a ...

2005