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Development and control of interactive reconfigurable robotic systems

While reconfigurable robots provide a new promising approach for interactive systems, the complexity of distributed actuation/sensing systems, coupled kinematics and desired functionalities also bring new challenges and questions both in control design and ...

EPFL2021

Exploring Spatial Perspective Taking in Human-Robot Interaction

Elmira Yadollahi

Humans often rely on their perspective taking skills to thrive within the world's complex relations and connections. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, not only perceptually but also cogni ...

EPFL2021

Flocking-enhanced social contagion

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Populations of mobile agents-animal groups, robot swarms, or crowds of people-self-organize into a large diversity of states as a result of information exchanges with their surroundings. While in many situations of interest the motion of the agents is driv ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Robot swarms as an educational tool: The Thymio’s way

Francesco Mondada

Robotics provides useful tools for educational purposes, allowing to engage students in learning within disparate domains, from computer science and artificial intelligence – traditionally the main domains for educational robotics – to general education, h ...

2019

Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

Jamie Paik

This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of MRR systems have been presented to date, and these robots promise to be ...

ANNUAL REVIEWS2019

Cellulo: Tangible Haptic Swarm Robots for Learning

Ayberk Özgür

Robots are steadily becoming one of the significant 21st century learning technologies that aim to improve education within both formal and informal environments. Such robots, called Robots for Learning, have so far been utilized as constructionist tools o ...

EPFL2018

Design Methodology for Constructing Multimaterial Origami Robots and Machines

Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov

Robotic origami allows rapid prototyping of intelligent robots and machines constructed from thin sheets of functional materials. Multimaterial-based design freedom of origami robots creates functional versatility; however, the design parameters pose chall ...

2018

Workshop on Robots for Learning: R4L

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ana Paiva

While robots have been popular as a tool for STEM teaching, the use of robots in other learning scenarios is novel. The field of HRI has started to report on how to make effective robots usable in educational contexts. However, many challenges remain. For ...

ACM2017

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Léa Marie Pereyre, Ayberk Özgür, Séverin Lemaignan, Manon Aline Briod, Maria Maria Beltran Reyes

In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by designing them to be pe ...

ACM2017

On Combining Multi-robot Coverage and Reciprocal Collision Avoidance

Alcherio Martinoli, Andreas Breitenmoser

Although robotic coverage and collision avoidance are active areas of robotics research, the avoidance of collision situations between robots has often been neglected in the context of multi-robot coverage tasks. In fact, for robots of physical size, colli ...

Springer Japan2016