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Catching Objects in Flight

Aude Billard, Ashwini Shukla, Seungsu Kim

We address the difficult problem of catching in-flight objects with uneven shapes. This requires the solution of three complex problems: accurate prediction of the trajectory of fastmoving objects, predicting the feasible catching configuration, and planni ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Small, fast and tough: an overview of our silicone-based actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

At the Microsystems for Space Technologies Laboratory, EPFL, we design and manufacture miniaturised silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). We love silicone, because even though the achievable strain is generally smaller than what you can get ...

2014

The Role of Environmental and Controller Complexity in the Distributed Optimization of Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Ezequiel Leonardo Di Mario

The ability to move in complex environments is a fundamental requirement for robots to be a part of our daily lives. Increasing the controller complexity may be a desirable choice in order to obtain an improved performance. However, these two aspects may p ...

2014

Effects of LHRF on toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Application of lower hybrid range of frequencies (LHRF) waves can induce both co- and counter-current directed changes in toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas, depending on the target plasma current, electron density, confinement regime and magnetic ...

2013

Shared control of a robot using EEG-based feedback signals

Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil

In the last years there has been an increasing interest on using human feedback during robot operation to incorporate non-expert human expertise while learning complex tasks. Most work has considered reinforcement learning frameworks were human feedback, p ...

2013

Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Timothy Stirling, James Roberts

Swarms of flying robots are promising in many applications due to rapid terrain coverage. However, there are numerous challenges in realising autonomous operation in unknown indoor environments. A new autonomous flight methodology is presented using relati ...

IEEE2012

Hall effect sensors performance investigation using three-dimensional simulations

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Maria-Alexandra Paun

Several Hall effect sensors were modeled and evaluated regarding the Hall voltage and sensitivity using 3D physical simulations. For accurate results the numerical offset and its temperature drift were analyzed. The versatility of the simulation allows var ...

2011

Learning Motion Dynamics to Catch a Moving Object

Aude Billard, Elena Gribovskaya, Seungsu Kim

In this paper, we consider a novel approach to control the timing of motions when these are encoded with autonomous dynamical systems (DS). Accurate timing of motion is crucial if a robot must synchronize its movement with that of a fast moving object. In ...

2010

Sensors for Applications in Magnetic Resonance Environments

Hannes Bleuler, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, Etienne Burdet

This paper analyzes sensing methods compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) reported in the literature, and presents the three generations of MR-compatible force/torque sensors we have developed for robotic systems to int ...

2008

On Learning, Representing and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

We present a Programming by Demonstration (PbD) framework for generically extracting the relevant features of a given task and for addressing the problem of generalizing the acquired knowledge to different contexts. We validate the architecture through a s ...

2007

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