Publications by Alexandre Bernardino

1(st) Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2023: Challenge Results

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Siddharth Gupta, Yang Song, Alexandre Bernardino

The 1st Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2023 focused on maritime computer vision for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), and organized several subchallenges in this domain: (i) UAV-based Maritime Object Detection ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

A Neuro-Inspired Computational Model for a Visually Guided Robotic Lamprey Using Frame and Event Based Cameras

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Jorg Conradt, Ibrahim Youssef Youssef, Alexandre Bernardino

The computational load associated with computer vision is often prohibitive, and limits the capacity for on-board image analysis in compact mobile robots. Replicating the kind of feature detection and neural processing that animals excel at remains a chall ...

2020

Roombots extended: Challenges in the next generation of self-reconfigurable modular robots and their application in adaptive and assistive furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Alexandre Bernardino

Elsevier2020

An Optimal Planning Framework to Deploy Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Hala Khodr, Alexandre Bernardino

Self-reconfiguration is a hard problem due to the high dimensionality of self-reconfigurable modular systems. Searchbased approaches offer complete and optimal solutions. However, naive search algorithms cannot directly solve self-reconfiguration tasks in ...

2019

Playdough to Roombots: Towards a Novel Tangible User Interface for Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Alexandre Bernardino

One of the main strengths of self-reconfigurable modular robots (SRMR) is their ability to shape-shift and dynamically change their morphology. In the case of our SRMR system "Roombots", these shapes can be quite arbitrary for a great variety of tasks whil ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

Effects of passive and active joint compliance in quadrupedal locomotion

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Alexandre Bernardino

Compliance of the body has a crucial role on locomotion performance. The levels and the distribution of compliance should be well tuned to obtain efficient gait. The leg stiffness changes significantly even during different phases of a single gait cycle. T ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018

Self-reconfigurable modular robot interface using virtual reality: Arrangement of furniture made out of roombots modules

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Alexandre Bernardino

2017

Natural user interface for lighting control: Case study on desktop lighting using modular robots

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Massimo Vespignani, Simon Lukas Hauser, Stéphane Bonardi, Alexandre Bernardino

Roombots (RB) are self-reconfigurable modular robots designed to explore physical structure change by robotic reconfiguration and adaptive locomotion on structured grid environment or unstructured environment. The primary goal of RB is to create adaptive f ...

Ieee2016

Where to place cameras on a snake robot: Focus on camera trajectory and motion blur

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Massimo Vespignani, Alexandre Bernardino

Visual information is heavily used in robotics, in particular for SLAM applications. Visual SLAM algorithms depend on robust feature extraction and reliable state estimation. Quality of the visual information highly depends on how that information is captu ...

IEEE2015

Reaching and grasping kitchenware objects

Aude Billard, Ashwini Shukla, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino

We integrate software components that allow ef- ficient and successful grasping of kitchenware objects. The contributed components include: The object pose detector, the gripper reaching motion and the grasp hypothesis selection. The object pose detector o ...

2012