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Bio-inspired Self-testing Configurable Circuits

Joël Rossier

Inspired by the basic processes of molecular biology, our studies resulted in defining a configurable molecule implementing mechanisms made up of simple processes. The goal of our paper is to demonstrate how these bio-inspired mechanisms and their underlyi ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

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

Swarm-bots to the Rescue

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Roderich Gross

We explore the problem of resource allocation in a system made up of autonomous agents that can either carry out tasks individually or, when necessary, cooperate by forming physical connections with each other. We consider a group transport scenario that i ...

Springer Verlag2009

A ruthenium-based metallostar: synthesis, sensitized luminescence and 1H relaxivity

Lothar Helm, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Alain Borel, Loïck Moriggi, Annina Aebischer

Ru-based metallostars Na4{Ru[Ln2bpy-DTTA2(H2O)4]3} (Ln = Y, Gd, and Eu) have been self-assembled in aqueous solution and their relaxivity and optical properties unravelled. The ynthesis and the purification of the new, highly stable heptametallic entities ...

2009

Towards Multi-Level Modeling of Self-Assembling Intelligent Micro-Systems

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Grégory Mermoud

We investigate and model the dynamics of two-dimensional stochastic self-assembly of intelligent micro-systems with minimal requirements in terms of sensing, actuation, and control. A microscopic agent-based model accounts for spatiality and serves as a ba ...

IFAAMAS2009

Group transport is being performed in many natural systems and has become a canonical task for studying cooperation in robotics. We simulate a system of simple, insect-like robots that can move autonomously and grasp objects as well as each other. We use a ...

2008

The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a peptidic folding precursor (Switch-Peptide) stable and soluble at physiological conditions, derived from a peptide having a potential for self-assembling and fibrillogenesis. Another object ...

2007

Self-replicating hardware for reliability: The embryonics project

Daniel Mange, Joël Rossier, Pierre-André Mudry

The multicellular structure of biological organisms and the interpretation in each of their cells of a chemical program (the DNA string or genome) is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the ...

2007

Autonomous Self-assembly in Swarm-Bots

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Roderich Gross

In this paper, we discuss the self-assembling capabilities of the swarm-bot, a distributed robotics concept that lies at the intersection between collective and self-reconfigurable robotics. A swarm-bot comprises autonomous mobile robots called s-bots. S-b ...

2006

Self-assembly of mobile robots - From swarm-bot to super-mechano colony

Roderich Gross

Up to now, only a few collective or modular robot systems have proven capable of letting separate and autonomous units, or groups of units, self-assemble. In each case, ad hoc control algorithms have been developed. The aim of this paper is to show that a ...

IOS Press2006