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Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Fanny Riedo

IEEE2013

Development of a mobile robot to study the collective behavior of zebrafish

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet

A robot accepted by animals as conspecifics is a very powerful tool in behavioral biology, particularly in studies of gregarious animals. In this paper we present a robotic zebrafish designed for experiments on the collective animal behavior. The robot con ...

Ieee2012

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Fanny Riedo

Technology is playing an increasing role in our society. Therefore it becomes important to educate the general public, and young generations in particular, about the most common technologies. In this context, robots are excellent education tools, for many ...

Springer2012

Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz

This paper presents a case-study on the performance achieved by the mechanical interactions of self-assembling mobile robots. This study is based on the hand-bot robot, designed to operate within heterogeneous swarms of robots. The hand-bot is specialized ...

Springer2012

How Children Tidy up Their Room with "Ranger" the Robotic Box

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Julia Fink, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Alain Berthoud

"Ranger" is a robotic box designed to motivate young children to tidy up the toys in their rom. It explores the idea of integrating robotics into daily life objects, such as a wooden box. The box shows light and sound when toys are put inside or removed. W ...

2012

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard

The market of domestic service robots, and especially vacuum cleaners, has kept growing during the past decade. According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 1 million units were sold worldwide in 2010. Currently, there is no in-depth an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

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

A Social Approach for Target Localization: Simulation and Implementation in the marXbot Robot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Andres Perez-Uribe, Andres Upegui

Foraging is a common benchmark problem in collective robotics in which a robot (the forager) explores a given environment while collecting items for further deposition at specific locations. A typical real-world application of foraging is garbage collectio ...

2011

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard

In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a consid ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

Philippe Rétornaz

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Development of a mobile robot to study the collective behavior of zebrafish

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study

How Children Tidy up Their Room with "Ranger" the Robotic Box

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

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

A Social Approach for Target Localization: Simulation and Implementation in the marXbot Robot

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Development of a mobile robot to study the collective behavior of zebrafish

A Social Approach for Target Localization: Simulation and Implementation in the marXbot Robot

How Children Tidy up Their Room with "Ranger" the Robotic Box

Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

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

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study