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This dissertation describes a complete methodological framework for designing, modeling and optimizing a specific class of distributed systems whose dynamics result from the multiple, stochastic interactions of their constitutive components. These componen ...
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Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz
This paper presents a case-study on the performance achieved by the mechanical interactions of self-assembling mobile robots. This study is based on the hand-bot robot, designed to operate within heterogeneous swarms of robots. The hand-bot is specialized ...
Springer2012Real-Time Automated Modeling and Control of Self-Assembling Systems
Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud, Utkarsh Upadhyay
We present the M3 framework, a formal and generic computational framework for modeling and controlling distributed stochastic systems of purely reactive robots in an automated and real-time fashion. Based on the trajectories of the robots, the framework bu ...
Ieee2012Modular synthesis of supramolecular ureidopyrimidinone–peptide conjugates using an oxime ligation strategy
Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings
A convenient method to prepare supramolecular bioconjugates in a facile and scalable manner is by a modular approach, whereby self-assembling units and peptides are coupled using oxime chemistry. We here report syntheses of bioactive ureidopyrimidinone-bas ...
2012Modeling Self-Assembly Across Scales: The Unifying Perspective of Smart Minimal Particles
Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud
A wealth of current research in microengineering aims at fabricating devices of increasing complexity, notably by (self-)assembling elementary components into heterogeneous functional systems. At the same time, a large body of robotic research called swarm ...
2011Robotique collective et auto-assemblage
We present a study of collective robotics by including a mechatronics point of view. In the field it is usually claimed that collective robots are simple and relatively cheap because they are produced in large quantities. Instead in our study we show that ...
EPFL2010Self-Assembly Strategies in a Group of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Robots are said to be capable of self-assembly when they can autonomously form physical connections with each other. By examining different ways in which a system can use self-assembly (i.e., different strategies), we demonstrate and quantify the performan ...
2010The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research
Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Daniel Burnier, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Valentin Longchamp, Gilles Roulet
Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...
IEEE Press2010Modeling Self-Assembly at All Scales
Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Loïc Jacot-Descombes, Grégory Mermoud
Can we devise a unique methodological framework for modeling and controlling these self-assembling systems? ...
2010Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture
Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Aude Billard, Alexander Spröwitz, Soha Pouya, Jesse van den Kieboom, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi
Imagine a world in which our furniture moves around like legged robots, interacts with us, and changes shape and function during the day according to our needs. This is the long term vision we have in the Roombots project. To work towards this dream, we ar ...
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