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Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue

This work establishes an architecture for Urban Search and Rescue and a methodology for mixing real-world and simulation-based testing. A sensor suite and sensor fusion algorithm for robust victim detection permits aggregation of sensor readings from vario ...

2005

Miniature Cameras for Ultra-Light Flying Robots

Adam Klaptocz

The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute at Lausanne (EPFL) is working on a project to create an autonomous flying robot that uses ‘vision’ (i.e. optical flow) to maneuver through small spaces such as corridors i ...

2005

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, André Guignard, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Christoph Studer

A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to a ...

2005

EKF-based 3D SLAM for Structured Environment Reconstruction

Roland Siegwart, Jan Weingarten

This paper presents the extension and experimental validation of the widely used EKF1-based SLAM2 algorithm to 3D space. It uses planar features extracted probabilistically from dense three-dimensional point clouds generated by a rotating 2D laser scanner. ...

2005

An Integrated Approach to Real-Time Mobile Robot Control in Partially Known Indoor Environments

In this paper we present a navigation method for mobile robots in partially known indoor environments based on integration of graph based search algorithms and dynamic window local obstacle avoidance method. With the attention on a dynamic environment thre ...

2005

Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, André Guignard, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat

We describe a new multi-robot system, named SWARM-BOTS, that exploits physical inter-connections to solve tasks that are impossible for a single robot. This is for instance the case of passing large gaps or high steps in all-terrain conditions. In order to ...

2004

The embodiment of cockroach behaviour in a micro-robot

Masoud Asadpour, Simon Garnier

Autonomous robots may some day be able to behave like an animal, be accepted by the animal as a conspecific and influence the individual as well as the collective behaviour of the animal and its conspecifics. With this objective in mind we report here the ...

2004

The embodiment of cockroach behaviour in a micro-robot

Masoud Asadpour

2004

Evolving a cooperative transport behavior for two simple robots

Roderich Gross

This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transport of an object by a group of two simple autonomous mobile robots called s-bots. S-bots are able to establish physical connections between each other and with an object called the prey. The environment ...

Springer Verlag2004

Mobile cm3-microrobots with tools for nanoscale imaging and micromanipulation

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

This paper presents a microrobot concept for microhandling and micromanipulation, which has been developed within the framework of the EU founded project MiCRoN. The concept is explained along with some examples of realized modules for the robots and a num ...

2004