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Safety 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 ...

2021

Unfreezing Social Navigation: Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation

Aude Billard, Diego Felipe Paez Granados

Soon human-robot interactions in pedestrian areas will be beyond the novelty effect with the deployment of delivery robots, autonomous personal mobility vehicles, and surveillance robots. Proxemics and other social rules guide these interactions, nonethele ...

2021

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Tristan Abondance, Kaushik Jayaram

The ability to efficiently and precisely manipulate objects in inaccessible environments is becoming an essential requirement for many applications of mobile robots, particularly at small sizes. Here, we propose and implement a mobile micromanipulation sol ...

2020

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Qi Yan, Li Jiang

This letter studies the measurement scheduling problem for a group of

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mobile robots moving on a flat surface that are preforming cooperative localization (CL). We consider a scenario in which due to the limited on-board resources such as battery life a ...

2020

Designing Human Assisted Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks Using Probabilistic Model Checking

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a wide variety of applications in environment monitoring (such as air pollution and fire detection), industrial operations (such as machine surveillance), and precision agriculture. It is an arduous task to manage a lar ...

2019

Designing a socially integrated mobile robot for ethological research

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

A robot introduced into an animal group, accepted by the animals as conspecifics, and capable of interacting with them is an ecient tool for ethological research, particularly in studies of collective and social behaviour. In this paper, we present the imp ...

2018

Learning Ground Traversability From Simulations

Mobile ground robots operating on unstructured terrain must predict which areas of the environment they are able to pass in order to plan feasible paths. We address traversability estimation as a heightmap classification problem: we build a convolutional n ...

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Experimental indoors localization using distance measurements obtained from visual data

Yuan Yao

In recent years, the emergence of artificial intelligence increases the demand of automatic and robust localization outdoors and indoors. While GPS provides enough accuracy in most outdoor cases, there is still a lack of robust and efficient indoor localiz ...

2017

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

Nicolas Dousse

With current overuse of the road transportation system and planned increase in traffic, inno- vative solutions that overcome environmental and financial cost of the current system should be assessed. A promising idea is the use of the third dimension for p ...

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"On-the-spot Training" for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams

Davide Scaramuzza, Luca Maria Gambardella

We consider the problem of performing rapid training of a terrain classier in the context of a collaborative robotic search and rescue system. Our system uses a vision-based flying robot to guide a ground robot through unknown terrain to a goal location by ...

2016

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Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas

Unfreezing Social Navigation: Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Designing Human Assisted Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks Using Probabilistic Model Checking

Designing a socially integrated mobile robot for ethological research

Learning Ground Traversability From Simulations

Experimental indoors localization using distance measurements obtained from visual data

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

"On-the-spot Training" for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams

Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas

Learning Ground Traversability From Simulations

Designing Human Assisted Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks Using Probabilistic Model Checking

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Designing a socially integrated mobile robot for ethological research

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

"On-the-spot Training" for Terrain Classification in Autonomous Air-Ground Collaborative Teams

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Unfreezing Social Navigation: Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation

Experimental indoors localization using distance measurements obtained from visual data