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Decentralized multi-robot coordination in crowded workspaces

Laleh Makarem

The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...

EPFL2015

Interacting with zebrafish using robotic agents

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Bertrand Eric Collignon, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira

Identifying the communication channels inside a society of zebrafish could allow scientists to trigger specific behaviors on the animals to tests for instance the effect of a drug or a genetic mutation. We propose a robotic system to integrate the zebrafis ...

2015

Social-Aware Coordination of Multi-robot Systems Based on Institutions

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

Institutional robotics (IR) is an approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems that draws inspiration from social sciences, namely from institutional economics. Using the concept of institution, it aims to provide a comprehensive strategy for specif ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Multi-robot and swarm olfactory search, PhD Thesis

Ali Marjovi

Searching for olfactory targets with mobile robots has received much attention in the recent years due to its applications in chemical leak detection, environmental monitoring, pollution monitoring, inspection of landfills, and search and rescue operations ...

LAMBERT Academic Publishing2013

Synergy-level Grasp Synthesis Learning

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Miao Li

Autonomous grasping is a complex task for robots. It is a high dimensional problem since it involves controlling for the hand position, orientation and joint angles to successfully grasp an object. In order to reduce the control complexity, we adopt a 3-st ...

2013

Robotic system for cervical spine surgery

Charles Baur

Background In contemporary surgical clinical practice, spinal instability is often treated with mechanical stabilization techniques in order to protect the spinal cord and nerve roots. These techniques involve placing screws in defined regions of the verte ...

2012

Robotic clusters: Multi-robot systems as computer clusters A topological map merging demonstration

Ali Marjovi, Sarvenaz Choobdar

In most multi-robot systems, an individual robot is not capable of solving computationally hard problems due to lack of high processing power. This paper introduces the novel concept of robotic clusters to empower these systems in their problem solving. A ...

Elsevier2012

Concept of Modular Kinematics to Design Ultra-high Precision Parallel Robots

Murielle Richard

Miniaturisation will be the key challenge for the next decade in numerous industrial fields, such as microelectronics, optics and biomedical engineering. Although most of their products already achieve footprints of some square millimeters, the trend towar ...

EPFL2012

A Trajectory-based Calibration Method for Stochastic Motion Models

Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud, Ezequiel Leonardo Di Mario

In this paper, we present a quantitative, trajectory-based method for calibrating stochastic motion models of water-floating robots. Our calibration method is based on the Correlated Random Walk (CRW) model, and consists in minimizing the Kolmogorov-Smirno ...

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Online learning and adaptation of patient support during ADL training

Neurological patients with impaired upper limbs often receive arm therapy to restore or relearn lost motor functions. During the last years robotic devices were developed to assist the patient during the training. In daily life the diversity of movements i ...

2011