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Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Developing robots that can contribute to cleaning could have a significant impact on the lives of many. Cleaning wet liquid spills is a particularly challenging task for a robotic system, and has several high impact applications. This is a hard task to phy ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2020

A field-tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Agriculture provides an unique opportunity for the development of robotic systems; robots must be developed which can operate in harsh conditions and in highly uncertain and unknown environments. One particular challenge is performing manipulation for auto ...

John Wiley and Sons Inc.2020

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Barbara Bruno, Ayberk Özgür

A large body of research suggests that robots could indeed be useful for supporting children in learning handwriting. However, few studies have investigated the role and use of tangible robots in teaching handwriting to children with attention and/or visuo ...

2020

A Distributed Source Term Estimation Algorithm for Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Faezeh Rahbar

Finding sources of airborne chemicals with mobile sensing systems finds applications in safety, security, and emergency situations related to medical, domestic, and environmental domains. Given the often critical nature of all the applications, it is impor ...

2020

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

An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

We are entering the era of robots, for everyone, everywhere. The expectations of the robots being reliable, intelligent and friendly artificial creatures drive the key challenges of the state-of-the-art robotics: technological, practical and social. The la ...

EPFL2020

UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have penetrated multiple domains over the past years. In GNSS-denied or indoor environments, aerial robots require a robust and stable localization system, often with external feedback, in order to fly safely. Motion ca ...

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

A 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)2019

A 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 PRESS2019

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Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills

A field-tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

A Distributed Source Term Estimation Algorithm for Multi-Robot Systems

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks

A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks

A field-tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce

An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

Can Tangible Robots Support Children in Learning Handwriting?

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills

A Distributed Source Term Estimation Algorithm for Multi-Robot Systems

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks

A Dynamical System Approach to Motion and Force Generation in Contact Tasks

UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset