Publications by Roland Siegwart

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Roland Siegwart, Stefano Mintchev, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Davide Scaramuzza, Tomislav Horvat, Marco Hutter

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly rel ...

2019

In-Flight Collision Avoidance Controller Based Only on OS4 Embedded Sensors

Roland Siegwart, Samir Bouabdallah, Vincent de Perrot

The major goal of this research was the development and implementation of a control system able to avoid collisions during the flight for a mini-quadrotor helicopter, based only on its embedded sensors without changing the environment. However, it is impor ...

Abcm Brazilian Soc Mechanical Sciences & Engineering2012

Anticipation- and Error-related EEG Signals during Realistic Human-Machine interaction: A Study on Visual and Tactile Feedback

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Roland Siegwart, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Xavier Perrin

The exploitation of EEG signatures of cognitive processes can provide valuable information to improve interaction with brain actuated devices. In this work we study these correlates in a realistic situation simulated in a virtual reality environment. We fo ...

Ieee2012

Quadrupedal robots with stiff and compliant actuation

Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter

In the broader context of quadrupedal locomotion, this overview article introduces and compares two platforms that are similar in structure, size, and morphology, yet differ greatly in their concept of actuation. The first, ALoF, is a classically stiff act ...

2012

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Fabien Tâche, Patrick Schoeneich, Gilles Caprari, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Andreas Breitenmoser

John Wiley & Sons2012

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Gilles Caprari, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

This paper reports on a 3 years applied research project dealing with several inspection scenarios of power plants and resulting in many robot prototypes and 3 main achievements. The project is a common effort between industry and university, including ALS ...

IEEE Press2010

Brain-coupled Interaction for Semi-autonomous Navigation of an Assistive Robot

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Roland Siegwart, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Xavier Perrin

This paper presents a novel semi-autonomous navigation strategy designed for low throughput interfaces. A mobile robot (e.g. intelligent wheelchair) proposes the most probable action, as analyzed from the environment, to a human user who can either accept ...

Elsevier2010

A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Mirko Kovac, Jürg Markus Germann

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with perching capabilities can be used to efficiently place sensors in aloft locations. A major challenge for perching is to build a lightweight mechanism that can be easily mounted on a MAV, allowing it to perch (attach and de ...

2010

MagneBike: Compact magnetic wheeled robot for power plant inspection

Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Fabien Tâche, Gilles Caprari, François Pomerleau

IEEE Press2010

Magnebike: A Magnetic Wheeled Robot with High Mobility for Inspecting Complex-Shaped Structures

Roland Siegwart, Francesco Mondada, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Roland Moser

This paper describes the Magnebike robot, a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a motorbike arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of ferromagnetic pipes with complex-shaped structures. The locomotion concept is based on an ad ...

2009