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Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Timothy Stirling, James Roberts
Deployment of multiple flying robots has attracted the interest of several research groups in the recent times both because such a feat represents many interesting scientific challenges and because aerial collective systems have a huge potential in terms o ...
Pan Stanford2013Double resonance spectroscopic studies using a new generation of microfabricated microwave cavity
Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Maddalena Violetti
We evaluate the potential of a new generation microwave cavity by double resonance spectroscopic studies. Both, the cell and the microwave cavity are microfabricated. This allows a substantial size reduction for the physics package, without compromising th ...
IEEE2013Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
Dario Floreano, Timothy Stirling
A major challenge in swarm robotics is efficiently deploying robots into unknown environments, minimising energy and time costs. This is especially important with small aerial robots which have extremely limited flight autonomy. This paper compares three d ...
Springer-Verlag Berlin2013Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Arnaud Garnier, Marco Pagnamenta
Autonomous navigation in obstacle-dense indoor environments is very challenging for flying robots due to the high risk of collisions, which may lead to mechanical damage of the platform and eventual failure of the mission. While conventional approaches in ...
2013Robot Companions for Citizens
This paper describes the scientific vision and objectives of the FET Flagship candidate initiative Robot Companions for Citizens. Robot Companions will be a new generation of machines that will primarily help and assist elderly people in activities of dail ...
Elsevier2011Workshop: Next-Generation Fibers for High Capacity Transmission—Radical Solutions
Driven by the exponentially growing demand for capacity, it is already apparent that the next generation of telecommunication networks will be radically different from previous implementations; coherent detection along with powerful digital signal processi ...
2011Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
For many real-life applications such as monitoring, mapping, search-and-rescue or ad-hoc communication networks, fleets of flying robots are expected to out-perform existing solutions. Robots can join forces to cover larger areas in less time, act as effic ...
EPFL2011Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
Dario Floreano, Timothy Stirling
A major challenge in swarm robotics is efficiently deploying robots into unknown environments, minimising energy and time costs. This is especially important with small aerial robots which have extremely limited flight autonomy. This paper compares three d ...
2010Predicting Usefulness of Measuring Structures during Load Tests
Ian Smith, James-Alexandre Goulet
This paper presents an approach for model identifiability that builds upon recent research into measurement data interpretation. The objective of this approach is to determine probabilistically to what degree the number of models able to explain a measured ...
2010Experimental Characterization of Pressure Wave Generation and Propagation in Biological Tissues
Kossi Agbeviade, Jacques Giovanola, Mathieu Benoit, Marcel Donnet
Aim of the study: This work develops a measurement technique for pressure waves in soft tissues. It aims at characterizing, understanding and modeling the generation and propagation of pressure waves in soft tissues, with a view towards medical application ...
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