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MICRON: Small Autonomous Robot for Cell Manipulation Applications

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

Manipulating in the micro- or even nano world still poses a great challenge to robotics. Conventional (stationary) systems suffer from drawbacks regarding integration into process supervision and multi-robot approaches, which become highly relevant to figh ...

2005

Group transport of an object to a target that only some group members may sense

Roderich Gross

This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the situation in which some robots are given the opportunity to localize the target ...

Springer Verlag2004

SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, André Guignard, Michael Bonani, Michel Lauria

This paper presents a new robotic concept, called SWARM-BOT, based on a swarm of autonomous mobile robots with self-assembling capabilities. SWARM-BOT takes advantage from collective and distributed approaches to ensure robustness to failures and to hard e ...

IEEE Press2003

In this paper, we study aggregation in a swarm of simple robots, called s-bots, having the capability to self-organize and self-assemble to form a robotic system, called a swarm-bot. The aggregation process, observed in many biological systems, is of funda ...

Springer Verlag2003

LameAlice, a Nanorover for Planetary Exploration

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Pierre Lamon, Michel Lauria

The recent advances in micro-technology made it possible to realize very small autonomous robots. Such mobile micro-robots have many potential applications. Especially in space exploration, where weight and size is a very dominant issue, mobile micro-robot ...

2003

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We present a new robotic concept, called SWARM-BOT, based on a swarm of small and simple autonomous mobile robots called S-BOTs. S-BOTs have a particular assembling capability that allows them to connect physically to other S-BOTs and form a bigger robot e ...

2002

SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Mirco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella

In this paper we introduce a new robotic system, called swarm-bot. The system consists of a swarm of mobile robots with the ability to connect to/disconnect from each other to self-assemble into different kinds of structures. First, we describe our vision ...

IEEE Press2002

We describe a new experimental approach whereby an indoor flying robot evolves the ability to navigate in a textured room using only visual information and neuromorphic control. The architecture of a spiking neural circuit, which is connected to the vision ...

2002

Actionneurs "stick and slip" pour micro-manipulateurs

Jean-Marc Breguet

This thesis is a contribution to the development of simple micromanipulators, having high resolution and several degrees-of-freedom, dedicated to the manipulation of miniature objects, the manipulation of biological specimens or to the assembly of microsys ...

EPFL1998

Applying means-ends analysis to spatial planning

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings

Currently known methods for robot planning fall far behind human capabilities: they require approximations of shapes, and they cannot generate plans which involve moving obstacles to clear a path for the moving object. In this paper, we explore the hypothe ...

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