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Learning by Teaching a Robot: The Case of Handwriting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Deanna Hood, Ana Paiva

Robots for education are not limited to support ICT teaching, and they are indeed finding new roles in the classroom. This article reports on such a new paradigm for educative robots, that involves learning by teaching and strong social engagement to help ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Towards Reproducing Humans' Exquisite Dexterity and Reactivity

Aude Billard

Our homes, offices and urban surroundings are carefully built to be inhabited by us, humans. Tools and furniture are designed to be easily manipulated by the human hand. Floors and stairs are modeled for human-sized legs. For robots to work seamlessly in o ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

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Robotic odor source localization is a promising tool with numerous applications in safety, search and rescue, and environmental science. In this paper, we present an algorithm for odor source localization using multiple cooperating robots equipped with che ...

IEEE2015

Distributed vs. Centralized Particle Swarm Optimization for Learning Flocking Behaviors

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Ezequiel Leonardo Di Mario

In this paper we address the automatic synthesis of controllers for the coordinated movement of multiple mobile robots. We use a noise-resistant version of Particle Swarm Optimization to learn in simulation a set of 50 weights of a plastic artificial neura ...

The MIT Press2015

A Holistic Approach to Energy Harvesting for Indoor Robots

Florian Christopher Vaussard

Service robotics is a fast expanding market. Inside households, domestic robots can now accomplish numerous tasks, such as floor cleaning, surveillance, or remote presence. Their sales have considerably increased over the past years. Whereas 1.05 million d ...

EPFL2015

Providing and Optimizing a Robotic Construction Plan for Rescue Operations

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

After a terrible disaster such as an earthquake or a nuclear accident, finding victims and isolating them from hazards are usually the first priorities for rescuers. As the security of rescuers and the stabilization of the environment are critical componen ...

2015

Decentralized multi-robot coordination in crowded workspaces

Laleh Makarem

The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...

EPFL2015

Autonomous Construction of Separated Artifacts by Mobile Robots Using SLAM and Stigmergy

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Autonomous mobile robots equipped with arms have the potential to be used for automated construction of structures in various sizes and shapes, such as houses or other infrastructures. Existing construction processes, like many other additive manufacturing ...

2015

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This article considers the suitability of current robots designed to assist humans in accomplishing their daily domestic tasks. With several million units sold worldwide, robotic vacuum cleaners are currently the figurehead in this field. As such, we will ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Lessons Learned from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners Entering in the Home Ecosystem

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Julia Fink, Florian Christopher Vaussard

Elsevier2014