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Learning the Stiffness of a Continuous Soft Manipulator from Multiple Demonstrations

Sylvain Calinon

Continuous soft robots are becoming more and more widespread in applications, due to their increased safety and flexibility in critical applications. The possibility of having soft robots that are able to change their stiffness in selected parts can help i ...

Springer2015

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

Autonomous Construction of Separated Artifacts by Mobile Robots Using SLAM and Stigmergy

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Autonomous mobile robots equipped with arms have the potential to be used for automated construction of structures in various sizes and shapes, such as houses or other infrastructures. Existing construction processes, like many other additive manufacturing ...

2015

Detection of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots

Roland Siegwart

Legged robots come in a range of sizes and capabilities. By combining these robots into heterogeneous teams, joint locomotion and perception tasks can be achieved by utilizing the diversified features of each robot. In this work we present a framework for ...

2014

Catching Objects in Flight

Aude Billard, Ashwini Shukla, Seungsu Kim

We address the difficult problem of catching in-flight objects with uneven shapes. This requires the solution of three complex problems: accurate prediction of the trajectory of fastmoving objects, predicting the feasible catching configuration, and planni ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Teaching a Core CS Concept through Robotics

Roland Siegwart, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

We implemented single-session workshops using the Thymio- II—a small, self-contained robot designed for young stu- dents, and VPL—a graphical software development envi- ronment based upon event handling. Our goal was to in- vestigate if the students could ...

ACM2014

A Control and Optimization Framework for Robot Locomotion

Soha Pouya

Despite great efforts in designing legged robots, we are still far from the adaptivity, efficiency and robustness with which animals can move. Observations from successful biomimetic designs highlight the significant role of clever morphological design in ...

EPFL2013

Motor Control Adaptation to Changes in Robot Body Dynamics for a Complaint Quadruped Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Soha Pouya, Peter Eckert, Rico Möckel

One of the major deficiencies of current robots in comparison to living beings is the ability to adapt to new conditions either resulting from environmental changes or their own dynamics. In this work we focus on situations where the robot experiences invo ...

2013

Assessing Interaction Dynamics in the Context of Robot Programming by Demonstration

Aude Billard, Brenna Dee Argall

In this paper we focus on human-robot interaction particularities that occur during programming by demonstration. Understanding what makes the interaction rewarding and keeps the user engaged helps optimize the robot's learning. Two user studies are presen ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Reflexive stability control framework for humanoid robots

Tadej Petric

In this paper we propose a general control framework for ensuring stability of humanoid robots, determined through a normalized zero-moment-point (ZMP). The proposed method is based on the modified prioritized kinematic control, which allows smooth and con ...

2013