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Software integration in mobile robotics, a science to scale up machine intelligence

Stéphane Magnenat

The present work tackles integration in mobile robotics. Integration is often considered to be a mere technique, unworthy of scientific investigation. On the contrary, we show that integrating capabilities in a mobile robot entails new questions that the p ...

EPFL2010

Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Stéphane Magnenat, Markus Waibel

The efficiency of social insect colonies critically depends on their ability to efficiently allocate workers to the various tasks which need to be performed. While numerous models have investigated the mechanisms allowing an efficient colony response to ex ...

2006

Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat

We study a simple algorithm inspired by the Brazil nut effect for achieving segregation in a swarm of mobile robots. The algorithm lets each robot mimic a particle of a certain size and broadcast this information locally. The motion of each particle is con ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2009

Bringing robotics into formal education using the Thymio open source hardware robot

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz, Fanny Riedo

Mobile robots are valuable tools for education because of both the enthusiasm they raise and the multidisciplinary nature of robotics technology. Mobile robots give access to a wide range of fields, such as complex mechanics, sensors, wireless transmission ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Stéphane Magnenat, Sara Mitri

Information transfer plays a central role in the biology of most organisms, particularly social species [1, 2]. Although the neurophysiological processes by which signals are produced, conducted, perceived, and interpreted are well understood, the conditio ...

2007

Aseba Meets D-Bus: From the Depths of a Low-Level Event-

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat

The robotics research community has clearly acknowledged the need of open and standard software stacks to promote reuse of code and developments. However, to date no particular project has prevailed. We suggest that one possible reason for this is that mos ...

2009

Augmented Robotics for Learners: A Case Study on Optics

Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Stéphane Magnenat, Amaury Robert Dame

In recent years, robots have been surfing on a trendy wave as standard devices for teaching programming. The tangibility of robotics platforms allows for collaborative and interactive learning. Moreover, with these robot platforms, we also observe the occu ...

IEEE2019

Autonomous construction using scarce resources in unknown environments - Ingredients for an intelligent robotic interaction with the physical world

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Roland Philippsen

The goal of creating machines that autonomously perform useful work in a safe, robust and intelligent manner continues to motivate robotics research. Achieving this autonomy requires capabilities for understanding the environment, physically interacting wi ...

Springer Verlag2012

Towards an Autonomous Evolution of Non-Biological Physical Organisms

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat

We propose an experimental study where simplistic organ- isms rise from inanimate matter and evolve solely through physical interactions. These organisms are composed of three types of macroscopic building blocks floating in an agitated medium. The dynamis ...

Springer Verlag2011

Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz

This paper presents a case-study on the performance achieved by the mechanical interactions of self-assembling mobile robots. This study is based on the hand-bot robot, designed to operate within heterogeneous swarms of robots. The hand-bot is specialized ...

Springer2012

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific locations by robots with the required skills. We focus on the question of how the s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Localization of inexpensive robots with low-bandwidth sensors

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat

Recent progress in electronics has allowed the construction of affordable mobile robots. This opens many new opportunities, in particular in the context of collective robotics. However, while several algorithms in this field require global localization, th ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings

Pascal Fua, Stéphane Magnenat, Tien Dat Ngo

Coloring books capture the imagination of children and provide them with one of their earliest opportunities for creative expression. However, given the proliferation and popularity of digital devices, real-world activities like coloring can seem unexcitin ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

ASEBA: A Modular Architecture for Event-Based Control of Complex Robots

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Valentin Longchamp

We propose ASEA, a modular architecture for event-based control of complex robots. ASEBA runs scripts inside virtual machines on self-contained sensor and actuator nodes. This distributes processing with no loss of versatility and provides several benefits ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Paolo Germano, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Valentin Longchamp

SLAM is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Applications areas such as consumer robotics appliances would clearly benefit from low-cost and compact SLAM implementations. The SLAM research community has developed s ...

IEEE Press2010

Autonomous construction with a mobile robot in a resource-limited environment: a demonstration of the integration of perception, planning and action

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Alexey Gribovskiy

This demo presents a miniature mobile robot performing autonomous construction in an environment where resources are limited. After an exploration phase, the robot builds a structure at a designated location according to an order from a human. Since local ...

IOS Press2012

Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris

We present in this paper a realistic looking robotic survival challenge simulation. Using a model of the e-puck, an open-source mobile robot designed for educational purposes, our simulation allows several players to program the behaviour of e-pucks compet ...

Springer2008

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Adam Klaptocz

Mobile robots have the potential to become the ideal tool to teach a broad range of engineering disciplines. Indeed, mobile robots are getting increasingly complex and accessible. They embed elements from diverse ﬁelds such as mechanics, digital electronic ...

IPCB: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco2009

The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Valentin Longchamp, Daniel Burnier

Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...

IEEE Press2010

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Christoph Studer, André Guignard

A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to a ...

2005