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Publications associées (12)
Edible Soft Actuators based on Konjac Glucomannan for Underwater Operation
Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake, Ryo Kanno
Soft robots are being increasingly developed and deployed for underwater applications such as exploration, monitoring, and rescue owing to their innate compliance, mechanical and chemical stability, and waterproof properties. However, they are still predom ...
2024From Surfactants to 3D Printing: How Ion-Chelator Pair Interactions Affect the Mechanical Properties of Bioinspired Materials
The remarkable adaptability observed in marine ecosystems has often inspired researchers when developing new soft materials. The research undertaken in this thesis explores how ion chelator pair interactions influence the mechanical properties of bioinspir ...
EPFL2024Biomechanics at the workplace under hypogravity conditions
The main goal of my research is to establish guidelines for workplace design based on human biomechanics: specifically sitting workplaces and handling areas in 1/6G-1/3G (Moon, Mars) conditions. Such a workplace could be used in long-term space missions in ...
EPFL2022Autonomous Feature Tracing and Adaptive Sampling in Real-World Underwater Environments
Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi
Applications of robots for gathering data in underwater environments has been limited due to the challenges posed by the medium. We have developed a miniature, agile, easy to carry and deploy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) equipped with a suite of sen ...
IEEE2018Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake, Thibaut André Pierre Paschal
Bio-inspired underwater robots have several benefits compared to traditional underwater vehicles such as agility, efficiency, and an environmentally friendly body. However, the bio-inspired underwater robots developed so far have a single swimming mode, wh ...
2017An Algorithm for Formation-Based Chemical Plume Tracing Using Robotic Marine Vehicles
Alcherio Martinoli, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares, António Pedro Rodrigues de Aguiar
Robotic chemical plume tracing is a growing area of research, with envisioned real-world applications including pollution tracking, search and rescue, and ecosystem identification. However, following a chemical signal in the water is not an easy task due t ...
IEEE2016Design and Implementation of a Range-Based Formation Controller for Marine Robots
Alcherio Martinoli, Jorge Miguel Dias Almeida Rodrigues Soares
There is considerable worldwide interest in the use of groups of autonomous marine vehicles to carry our challenging mission scenarios, of which marine habitat mapping of complex, non-structured environments is a representative example. Relative positionin ...
Springer International Publishing2014A scalable electro-magnetic communication system for underwater swarms
Scalable, reliable underwater communication is still a major challenge limiting the deployment of large-scale cooperative underwater systems, such as swarms of AUVs, which generally rely on frequent updates from surrounding units for control and mission ob ...
IFAC2012A survey of techniques and challenges in underwater localization
Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are expected to support a variety of civilian and military applications. Sensed data can only be interpreted meaningfully when referenced to the location of the sensor, making localization an important problem. W ...
2011A Study of Forward Error Correction Schemes for Reliable Transport in Underwater Sensor Networks
Underwater communications is a very challenging topic due to its singular channel characteristics. Most protocols used in terrestrial wireless communications can not be directly applied in the underwater world. A high bit error rate and low propagation del ...
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