Publications by Mehmet Hasan Mutlu

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

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

Compliant universal grippers as adaptive feet in legged robots

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser

This work investigates the usage of compliant universal grippers as a novel foot design for legged locomotion. The method of jamming of granular media in the universal grippers is characterized by having two distinct states: a soft, fluid-like state which ...

2018

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

Stiffness variability in jamming of compliant granules and a case study application in climbing vertical shafts

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Frédéric Freundler

Jamming of granular media has been shown to possess the property of stiffness variation, transitioning from a soft to a quasi-solid state depending on the packing density of the granules. Recently, a gradual stiffness change for bending has been reported b ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

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 ...

2018

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

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

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.