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Hybrid, metric - topological, mobile robot navigation

Nicola Tomatis

This thesis presents a recent research on the problem of environmental modeling for both localization and map building for wheel-based, differential driven, fully autonomous and self-contained mobile robots. The robots behave in an indoor office environmen ...

EPFL2001

A Complex Mechatronic System: from Design to Application

Roland Siegwart, Nicola Tomatis, Björn Jensen, Jan Persson, Kai Oliver Arras

Progress in mobile robotics requires the researchers to access and improve all modules that compose the robot, from low-level mechanical components to high-level reasoning systems. This paper presents the development process of the robots built at the Auto ...

2001

Interactions between Art and Mobile Robotic System Engineering

Francesco Mondada

The field of mobile robotics offers a new medium for public entertainment and art. Mobile robots can move, react, and interact in the real world, generating behaviors that can be used as a new artistic medium quite different from sculptures, drawings or vi ...

Springer2001

KhepOnTheWeb: open access to a mobile robot on the Internet

Francesco Mondada

For years research has focused on ways to allow remote access via standard communication networks to unique or expensive structures. With the growth of the Internet, one finds more and more devices connected to it. Despite the fact that one may spy on othe ...

2000

Evolutionary On-Line Self-Organization of Autonomous Robots

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

We review recent experiments in evolutionary robotics carried out in dynamic environments and across different robotic platforms. We then introduce a new evolutionary approach where robots are evolved for their ability to adapt online. Several experiments ...

2000

Design and Control of an Innovative Micro-Rover

Roland Siegwart, Michel Lauria

During recent years the European Space Agency (ESA) has started to develop concepts for micro-rovers for planetary missions. An ESA Technology Research Program (TRP) activity "Micro-Robots for Scientific Applications" has been dedicated to this subject. Wi ...

1998

Incremental Robot Shaping

Dario Floreano, Mirco Dorigo, Joseba Urzelai

We propose a modular architecture for autonomous robots which allows for the implementation of basic behavioral modules by both programming and training, and accommodates for an evolutionary development of the interconnections among modules. This architect ...

1998

Design and Implementation of an Innovative Micro-Rover

Roland Siegwart, Michel Lauria

Mobile robots are of high interest for unmaned planetary exploration. The very successful Pathfinder mission to Mars has impressively demonstrated the potential of mobile platforms for planetary exploration [1]. The European Space Agency (ESA) also started ...

1998

God Save the Red Queen! Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics

Dario Floreano

In the simplest scenario of two co-evolving populations in competition with each other, fitness progress is achieved at disadvantage of the other population's fitness. The everchanging fitness landscape caused by the competing species (named the "Red Queen ...

1997

Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada

In this paper we describe the evolution of a discrete-time recurrent neural network to control a real mobile robot. In all our experiments the evolutionary procedure is carried out entirely on the physical robot without human intervention. We show that the ...

1996