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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

Position Feedback for Microrobots based on Scanning Probe Microscopy

Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen, Ashwin Lal

A cluster of small cooperative robots capable of executing measurement and manipulation tasks is being developed within the scope of a European project. The robots are autonomous and have an overall dimension in the order of 1 cm/sup 3/. In this paper we p ...

2004

Octopus - An Autonomous Wheeled Climbing Robot

Roland Siegwart, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Michel Lauria

This paper presents an innovative off-road wheeled mobile robot, named Octopus, able to deal autonomously with obstacles in rough terrain without getting stuck. To achieve such a performance, the robot is equipped with tilt sensors and tactile wheels. The ...

2002

Improving the Expressiveness of Mobile Robots

Roland Siegwart, Björn Jensen

RoboX is a tour guide robot, designed to interact with visitors at Expo02, the Swiss National Exhibition. During five months, ten RoboXs will be in contact with people not trained to autonomous robots and will guide them throughout an exhibition about robo ...

2002

On the Origin of Environments by Means of Natural Selection

The field of adaptive robotics involves simulations and real-world implementations of robots that adapt to their environments. In this article, I introduce adaptive environmentics -- the flip side of adaptive robotics -- in which the environment adapts to ...

2002

Evolutionary Robotics. The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organizing Machines

Dario Floreano

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in clos ...

MIT Press2001

An innovative micro optical element assembly robot

René Salathé, Reymond Clavel

Concerns the fabrication of miniaturized optical devices with height attachment precision. For active alignment of micro-optical elements machined with tolerances lower than the intended precision, an accurate 6-DOF robot is needed. This article describes ...

Robotics Int. Soc. Manuf. Eng2001

Algorithms for VLSI stereo vision circuits applied to autonomous robots

Since the inception of Robotics, visual information has been incorporated in order to allow the robots to perform tasks that require an interaction with their environment, particularly when it is a changing environment. Depth perception is a most useful in ...

EPFL1999

Evolution of Adaptive-Synapse Controllers

Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai

This paper is concerned with artificial evolution of neuro-controllers with adaptive synapses for autonomous mobile robots. The method consists of encoding on the genotype a set of local modification rules that synapses obey while the robot freely moves in ...

1999

Interface pour le pilotage et l'analyse des robots basée sur un générateur de cinématiques

In robotics we depend on software tools during design, modeling, programming and testing. These tools are essentials, often indispensable aids for developing and operating sophisticated robotic systems. At the same time, these tools are complex and usually ...

EPFL1998