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Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Aquatic Environmental Sensing

Bringing advantages of parallelism and robustness, distributed robotic systems have become an active subject of research since many years. Yet, the progress in that direction with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been limited. This project aims at ...

EPFL2021

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Recent works in aerial robotics show that the self-organized and cohesive flight of swarms can emerge from the exchange of purely local information between neighboring agents. However, most of the current swarm models are not capable of flight in densely c ...

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Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Tristan Abondance, Kaushik Jayaram

The ability to efficiently and precisely manipulate objects in inaccessible environments is becoming an essential requirement for many applications of mobile robots, particularly at small sizes. Here, we propose and implement a mobile micromanipulation sol ...

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Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Qi Yan, Li Jiang

This letter studies the measurement scheduling problem for a group of

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mobile robots moving on a flat surface that are preforming cooperative localization (CL). We consider a scenario in which due to the limited on-board resources such as battery life a ...

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Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Alcherio Martinoli, Hala Khodr, Bahar Haghighat

Self-assembling robotic systems form a subclass of distributed robotic systems that undertake the fundamental task of structure formation. These systems build desired target structures by putting their constituting robotic modules together in a distributed ...

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Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms

Francesco Mondada, Roderich Gross

This paper describes an alternative path towards artificial life-one by which simple modular robots with novel hybrid motion control are used to represent artificial organisms. We outline conceptually how such a system would work, and present a partial har ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

This project is carried out under the partnership between LMTS and LAI to develop an autonomous micro-robot called DE-Ansect. This low power micro-robot moves thanks to dielectric elastomere actuators. For now the robot follows a black line on the ground. ...

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Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill

We present a new Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) system for cooperative environmental sensing. The AUV was specifically developed as a platform for distributed, cooperative sensing in lakes and coastal areas. In this paper we describe the prerequisite ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

Bahar Haghighat

The newly emerged and quickly growing science of nanotechnology has been recognized as one of ``the twenty-first century's great leaps forward in scientific knowledge''. Self-assembly provides a powerful enabling technique for nanotechnology by providing a ...

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A reconfiguration strategy for modular robots using origami folding

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Meibao Yao

Reconfigurability in versatile systems of modular robots is achieved by changing the morphology of the overall structure as well as by connecting and disconnecting modules. Recurrent connectivity changes can cause misalignment that leads to mechanical fail ...

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Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Aquatic Environmental Sensing

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

A reconfiguration strategy for modular robots using origami folding

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms

Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Aquatic Environmental Sensing

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation

A reconfiguration strategy for modular robots using origami folding