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Roombots-Mechanical Design of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots for Adaptive Furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Aude Billard

We aim at merging technologies from information technology, roomware, and robotics in order to design adaptive and intelligent furniture. This paper presents design principles for our modular robots, called Roombots, as future building blocks for furniture ...

2009

Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning of modules with symmetry

Auke Ijspeert, Milad Shafiee Ashtiani, Masoud Asadpour

In our previous works we had developed a framework for self-reconfiguration planning based on graph signature and graph edit-distance. The graph signature is a fast isomorphism test between different configurations and the graph edit-distance is a similari ...

2009

A Fast On-Board Relative Positioning Module for Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh, Xavier Raemy, Riccardo Falconi, Cédric Favre

We present an on-board robotic module which can determine relative positions among miniature robots. The module uses high-frequency modulated infrared emissions to enable nearby robots to determine the range, bearing, and message of the sender with a rapid ...

2009

Separation and Duality in Locally L0-Convex Modules

Damir Filipovic

Motivated by financial applications, we study convex analysis for modules over the ordered ring L0 of random variables. We establish a module analogue of locally convex vector spaces, namely locally L0-convex modules. In this context, we prove hyperplane s ...

2009

Varieties of modules for Z/2Z x Z/2Z

Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 2. We prove that the restricted nilpotent commuting variety C, that is the set of pairs of (n x n)-matrices (A, B) such that A(2) = B-2 = [A, B] = 0, is equidimensional. C can be identified with the ...

Elsevier2007

Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert

This article presents the first results of a project in underwater modular robotics, called Neubots. The goals of the projects are to explore, following Von Neumann’s ideas, potential mechanisms underlying self-organization and self-replication. We briefly ...

Springer Verlag2005

Image Processing Education

Michaël Unser, Daniel Sage

This chapter describes tools and techniques that facilitate a gentle introduction to fascinating concepts in digital image processing from four leading universities. Equipped with informative visualizations and a user-friendly interfaces, these modules are ...

Elsevier Academic Press2005

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

Modules d'endo-permutation

Nadia Mazza

If p is an odd prime, the group of endo-trivial modules for a metacyclic p-group is infinite cyclic generated by the Heller translate of the trivial module. The structure of the whole Dade group of endo-permutation modules can be deduced from this. Every k ...

Université de Lausanne2003

Evolving Software with Extensible Modules

Matthias Zenger

We present the design of the programming language Keris, an extension of Java with explicit support for software evolution. Keris introduces extensible modules as the basic building blocks for software. Modules are composed hierarchically revealing explici ...

2002