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Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Roderich Gross

We study a simple algorithm inspired by the Brazil nut effect for achieving segregation in a swarm of mobile robots. The algorithm lets each robot mimic a particle of a certain size and broadcast this information locally. The motion of each particle is con ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2009

Learning and Control of UAV maneuvers Based on Demonstrations

Aude Billard, Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh

Many maneuvers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can be considered within a framework of trajectory following. Though this issue can differ from one application to another, they all share the same problem of finding an optimal path (or signal) to perform t ...

2009

Visual Debugging of MPI Applications

Roger Hersch, Ali Al-Shabibi

We present the design and implementation of a debugging tool that displays a message-passing graph of the execution of an MPI application. Parts of the graph can be hidden or highlighted based on the stack trace, calling process or communicator of MPI call ...

Springer2008

Coordination schemes for distributed boundary coverage with a swarm of miniature robots

Nicolaus Correll

We provide a comparison of a series of original coordination mechanisms for the distributed boundary coverage problem with a swarm of miniature robots. Our analysis is based on real robot experimentation and models at different levels of abstraction. Distr ...

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Inspiring and Modeling Multi-Robot Search with Particle Swarm Optimization

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh

Within the field of multi-robot systems, multi-robot search is one area which is currently receiving a lot of research attention. One major challenge within this area is to design effective algorithms that allow a team of robots to work together to find th ...

2007

Study of vehicle noise for different operating conditions

André-Gilles Dumont, Edward Chung, Ashish Bhaskar

The noise emission level from a vehicle is significantly influenced by different driving conditions and drivers’ behaviour. Almost all the in practice road traffic noise estimation models do not differentiate between different operating conditions. In this ...

2006

Rigid body dynamics simulation for robot motion planning

Alan Ettlin

The development of robot motion planning algorithms is inherently a challenging task. This is more than ever true when the latest trends in motion planning are considered. Some motion planners can deal with kinematic and dynamic constraints induced by the ...

EPFL2006

Applying Aspects of Multi-Robot Search to Particle Swarm Optimization

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh, Loïc Segapelli

We present a modified version of the Particle swarm Optimization algorithm in which we adjust the virtual swarm search by incorporating inter-agent dynamics native to multi-robot search scenarios. The neighborhood structure of PSO is modified to accurately ...

2006

Contribution à l'étude des modes de rayonnement acoustique d'une structure

Olivier Schevin

Noise radiated by different industrial structures that surround us in daily life are more and more considered as environmental pollution. Standards defining a tolerable sound level for each of these noise sources are regularly called into question and resp ...

EPFL2001

Exploring unknown environments

Monika Henzinger

We consider exploration problems where a robot has to construct a complete map of an unknown environment. We assume that the environment is modeled by a directed, strongly connected graph. The robot's task is to visit all nodes and edges of the graph using ...

2000