Publications by Géraud L'Eplattenier

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Louis Lazare Saint-Raymond

Aerial robots provide valuable support in several high-risk scenarios thanks to their capability to quickly fly to locations dangerous or even inaccessible to humans. In order to fully benefit from these features, aerial robots should be easy to transport ...

2015

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

The demand for bendable sensors increases constantly in the challenging field of soft and micro-scale robotics. We present here, in more detail, the flexible, functional, insect-inspired curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) that was previously introduc ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Hyper-flexible 1-D shape sensor

Dario Floreano, Stéphanie Lacour, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

Here we describe a sensor capable of perceiving complex one-dimensional (1-D) shape of an underlying substrate in a static and dynamic manner. The sensor consists of seven, serially connected, hyper-flexible strain gauges, manufactured using stretchable-go ...

2013

Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Michal Karol Dobrzynski

In most animal species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, and high temporal resolution in a tiny ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

CURVACE - CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Ramon Pericet Camara, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Géraud L'Eplattenier

CURVACE aims at designing, developing, and assessing CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes, a radically novel family of vision systems. This innovative approach will provide more efficient visual abilities for embedded applications that require motion analysis i ...

Elsevier B.V.2011