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Multi-robot systems can solve complex tasks that require the coordination of the team-member positions with respect to each other.While the development of ad-hoc relative positioning platforms embedding cheap off-the-shelf components is a practical choice, ...

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a novel miniature magnetic climbing robot for industrial inspection. The robot has high mobility with low complexity. ...

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The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

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Bio-inspired and probabilistic algorithms for distributed odor source localization using mobile robots

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Software integration in mobile robotics, a science to scale up machine intelligence

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The present work tackles integration in mobile robotics. Integration is often considered to be a mere technique, unworthy of scientific investigation. On the contrary, we show that integrating capabilities in a mobile robot entails new questions that the p ...

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Autonomous construction by mobile robots would be useful in various situations, such as in outer space, in hazardous environments, but also for the building industry. Current works tackle simplified scenarios where environment is flat and resources readily ...

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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 ...

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