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EPFL2023Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas
Aude Billard, Diego Felipe Paez Granados, Pericle Salvini
The slogan “robots will pervade our environment” has become a reality. Drones and ground robots are used for commercial purposes while semi-autonomous driving systems are standard accessories to traditional cars. However, while our eyes have been riveted o ...
2021A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks
Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Walid Amanhoud
Many tasks require the robot to enter in contact with surfaces, be it to take support, to polish or to grasp an object. It is crucial that the robot controls forces both upon making contact and while in contact. While many solutions exist to control for co ...
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)2019A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks
Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Walid Amanhoud
Many tasks require the robot to enter in contact with surfaces, be it to take support, to polish or to grasp an object. It is crucial that the robot controls forces both upon making contact and while in contact. While many solutions exist to control for co ...
MIT PRESS2019Towards Agility: Definition, Benchmark and Design Considerations for Small, Quadrupedal Robots
Agile quadrupedal locomotion in animals and robots is yet to be fully understood, quantified
or achieved. An intuitive notion of agility exists, but neither a concise definition nor a common
benchmark can be found. Further, it is unclear, what minimal leve ...
EPFL2018A Framework for Cooperative Human-Aware Navigation and Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems in Social Environments
Continual developments in robotic technology have enabled the use of robots in everyday applications in domestic, office and public spaces. Although single robot problems have been the main focus of social robotics research, applications of robots in socia ...
EPFL2018An Information Gain Formulation for Active Volumetric 3D Reconstruction
We consider the problem of next-best view selection for volumetric reconstruction of an object by a mobile robot equipped with a camera. Based on a probabilistic volumetric map that is built in real time, the robot can quantify the expected information gai ...
2016Decentralized multi-robot coordination in crowded workspaces
The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...
EPFL2015Distributed vs. Centralized Particle Swarm Optimization for Learning Flocking Behaviors
Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Ezequiel Leonardo Di Mario
In this paper we address the automatic synthesis of controllers for the coordinated movement of multiple mobile robots. We use a noise-resistant version of Particle Swarm Optimization to learn in simulation a set of 50 weights of a plastic artificial neura ...
The MIT Press2015Institutional Robotics Institutions for Social Robots
José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira
The way human beings engage with material things in our environment is experiencing rapid modification. Human and non-human, natural and artificial creatures are on the verge of building unprecedented relations of sociability. This paper takes this process ...
Springer2015