Publications by Valentin Longchamp

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Daniel Burnier, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Timothy Stirling, James Roberts, Valentin Longchamp

2013

ASEBA: A Modular Architecture for Event-Based Control of Complex Robots

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Valentin Longchamp

We propose ASEA, a modular architecture for event-based control of complex robots. ASEBA runs scripts inside virtual machines on self-contained sensor and actuator nodes. This distributes processing with no loss of versatility and provides several benefits ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Paolo Germano, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Valentin Longchamp

SLAM is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Applications areas such as consumer robotics appliances would clearly benefit from low-cost and compact SLAM implementations. The SLAM research community has developed s ...

IEEE Press2010

Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots

Valentin Longchamp, Simon Garnier

Foraging robots involved in a search and retrieval task may create paths to navigate faster in their environment. In this context, a swarm of robots that has found several resources and created different paths may benefit strongly from path selection. Path ...

2010

The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Daniel Burnier, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Valentin Longchamp, Gilles Roulet

Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...

IEEE Press2010

ASEBA, an event-based middleware for distributed robot control

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Valentin Longchamp

Computing infrastructures of mobile robots have grown in complexity in the last decades; They have evolved from single processor systems to networks of microcontrollers communicating through a shared bus. This has induced additional architectural constrain ...

IEEE Press2007