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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

Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

Ludovic Daler

There is a growing interest in using robots in dangerous environments, such as for exploration, search-and-rescue or monitoring applications, in order to reduce the risks for workers or rescuers and to improve their efficiency. Typically, flying robots off ...

EPFL2015

Robogami: A Fully Integrated Low-Profile Robotic Origami

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Intelligent robotic systems that can react to unprogrammed tasks and unforeseen environmental changes require augmented "softness." Robogami, a low-profile origami robot, addresses intrinsic (material-wise) and extrinsic (mechanism-wise) softness with its ...

2015

DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Stefano Mintchev, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

We introduce a soft actuator for grippers using DEA capable of bending actuation. The actuator is also able to generate the electro-adhesion by the fringe field formed at the edges of the electrodes. The adhesion improves the holding force and ensures the ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Learning Force and Position Constraints in Human-robot Cooperative Transportation

Sylvain Calinon

Physical interaction between humans and robots arises a large set of challenging problems involving hardware, safety, control and cognitive aspects, among others. In this context, the cooperative (two or more people/robots) transportation of bulky loads in ...

2014

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

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

Kinematic Batch Calibration for Legged Robots

Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter

This paper introduces a novel batch optimization based calibration framework for legged robots. Given a nondegenerate calibration dataset and considering the stochastic models of the sensors, the task is formulated as a maximum likelihood problem. In order ...

2013

Assessment of protein binding with magnetic microrobots in fluid

Mahmut Selman Sakar

For applications such as targeting therapeutic nanocarriers to specific tissues, as well as for the more general problem of assessing binding affinity between proteins, it is important to discover tools which may be used for both micromanipulation as well ...

2013

Miniature Mobile Systems for Inspection of Ferromagnetic Structures

Patrick Schoeneich

Power plants require periodical inspections to control their state. To ensure a safe operation, parts that could fail before the next inspection are repaired or replaced, since a forced outage due to a failure can cost up to millions of dollars per day. No ...

EPFL2012