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Bio-inspired robotics

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Detection of Slippery Terrain with a Heterogeneous Team of Legged Robots

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

Learning by Imitation with the STIFF-FLOP Surgical Robot: A Biomimetic Approach Inspired by Octopus Movements

Sylvain Calinon

Transferring skills from a biological organism to a hyper-redundant system is a challenging task, especially when the two agents have very different structure/embodiment and evolve in different environments. In this article we propose to address this probl ...

2014

Learning robotic eye–arm–hand coordination from human demonstration: a coupled dynamical systems approach

Aude Billard, Luka Lukic, José Santos-Victor

We investigate the role of obstacle avoidance in visually guided reaching and grasping movements. We report on a human study in which subjects performed prehensile motion with obstacle avoidance where the position of the obstacle was systematically varied ...

Springer2014

Rich Locomotion Skills with the Oncilla Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Massimo Vespignani, Alexander Spröwitz, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Peter Eckert, Alexandre Tuleu

We are motivated to better understand how adaptive locomotion (rough terrain locomotion, turning, gait transition, etc) can be realized using a quadrupedal platform with constrained resources. These constraints include computational power limitation, no ac ...

2014

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Ilya Loshchilov, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Andrea Maesani, Titus Cieslewski, Ludovic Daler, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Deniz Aydin, Pradeep Ruben Fernando

Science instructors from a wide range of disciplines agree that hands-on laboratory components of courses are pedagogically necessary (Freedman, 1997). However, certain shortcomings of current laboratory exercises have been pointed out by several authors ( ...

The MIT Press2014

On the dynamics of human locomotion and co-design of lower limb assistive devices

Jesse van den Kieboom

Recent developments in lower extremities wearable robotic devices for the assistance and rehabilitation of humans suffering from an impairment have led to several successes in the assistance of people who as a result regained a certain form of locomotive c ...

EPFL2014

Bimanual Compliant Tactile Exploration for Grasping Unknown Objects

Aude Billard, Nicolas Sommer, Miao Li

Humans have an incredible capacity to learn properties of objects by pure tactile exploration with their two hands. With robots moving into human-centred environment, tactile exploration becomes more and more important as vision may be occluded easily by o ...

2014

Adaptive pulsed laser line extraction for terrain reconstruction using a dynamic vision sensor

Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter

Mobile robots need to know the terrain in which they are moving for path planning and obstacle avoidance. This paper proposes the combination of a bio-inspired, redundancy-suppressing dynamic vision sensor (DVS) with a pulsed line laser to allow fast terra ...

2014

Learning Reach-to-Grasp Motions From Human Demonstrations

Ashwini Shukla

Reaching over to grasp an item is arguably the most commonly used motor skill by humans. Even under sudden perturbations, humans seem to react rapidly and adapt their motion to guarantee success. Despite the apparent ease and frequency with which we use th ...

EPFL2014

A Miniature Mobile Robot Developed to be Socially Integrated with Species of Small Fish

Francesco Mondada, Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira

A robot accepted by animals as conspecific is a very powerful tool in behavioral biology, particularly in studies of gregarious animals. In this paper we present the first results of acceptance of a robotic fish designed for experiments on collective anima ...

2014

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