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EmbedIT – An Open Robotic Kit for Education

Robots have often been used as an educational tool in class to introduce kids to science and technology, disciplines that are affected by decreasing enrollments in universities. Consequently, many robotic kits are available off-the-shelf. Even though many ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

The Ethical Landscape of Robotics

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This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss v ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

Aerial robots are often required to remain within the communication range of a base station on the ground to exchange commands, sensor data or as a safety mechanism. For this purpose, we propose a minimal control strategy for steering flying robots using o ...

2010

The Role of Shared-Control in BCI-based Telepresence

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Michele Tavella

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Planner9, a HTN planner distributed on groups of miniature mobile robots

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Martin Voelkle

Autonomous mobile robots are promising tools for operations in environments that are difficult to access for humans. When these environments are dynamic and non-deterministic, like in collapsed buildings, the robots must coordinate their actions and the us ...

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A tutorial on the use of graph coloring for some problems in robotics

Dominique de Werra, Tinaz Ekim

We study the problem where a robot has to pick up items of different sizes which are stored along a corridor. A natural requirement is that the items have to be collected in decreasing order of their sizes. We deal with various systems according to the loc ...

2009

Flying Insects and Robots

Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engin ...

Springer2009

Combining Dynamical Systems Control and Programming by Demonstration for Teaching Discrete Bimanual Coordination Tasks to a Humanoid Robot

Aude Billard, Elena Gribovskaya

We present a generic framework that combines Dynamical Systems movement control with Programming by Demon- stration (PbD) to teach a robot bimanual coordination task. The model consists of two systems: a learning system that processes data collected during ...

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Pattern generators with sensory feedback for the control of quadruped locomotion

Auke Ijspeert, Ludovic Righetti

Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) are becoming a popular model for the control of locomotion of legged robots. Biological CPGs are neural networks responsible for the generation of rhythmic movements, especially locomotion. In robotics, a systematic way of ...

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Engineering limit cycle systems

Jonas Buchli

In this thesis, we present a dynamical systems approach to adaptive controllers for locomotion control. The approach is based on a rigorous mathematical framework using nonlinear dynamical systems and is inspired by theories of self-organization. Nonlinear ...

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