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Roombots: Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive Furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Aude Billard, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Soha Pouya, Jesse van den Kieboom, Stéphane Bonardi

Imagine a world in which our furniture moves around like legged robots, interacts with us, and changes shape and function during the day according to our needs. This is the long term vision we have in the Roombots project. To work towards this dream, we ar ...

2010

Learning to move in modular robots using central pattern generators and online optimization

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Jérôme Maye

This article addresses the problem of how modular robotics systems, i.e. systems composed of multiple modules that can be configured into different robotic structures, can learn to locomote. In particular, we tackle the problems of online learning, that is ...

SAGE Publications2008

Oncilla robot: a light-weight bio-inspired quadruped robot for fast locomotion in rough terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Mostafa Ajallooeian, Alexandre Tuleu

: On the hardware level, we are proposing and testing a bio-inspired quadruped robot design (Oncilla robot), based on light-weight, compliant, and three-segmented legs. Our choice of placing the compliance such that it is spanning two joints enforces a non ...

2011

Collaborative Manipulation and Transport of Passive Pieces Using the Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots Roombots

Auke Ijspeert, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi

Manipulation and transport of objects using mobile robotic platforms is a well studied field with several successful approaches. The main difficulty while using such platforms is the lack of adaptation capabilities to changes in the environment and the res ...

2013

Gait Optimization for Roombots Modular Robots - Matching Simulation and Reality

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Soha Pouya, Stéphane Bonardi

The design of efficient locomotion gaits for robots with many degrees of freedom is challenging and time con- suming even if optimization techniques are applied. Control parameters can be found through optimization in two ways: (i) through online optimizat ...

2013

Natural User Interface for Roombots

Auke Ijspeert, Ayberk Özgür, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi

Roombots (RB) are self-reconfigurable modular robots designed to study robotic reconfiguration on a structured grid and adaptive locomotion off grid. One of the main goals of this platform is to create adaptive furniture inside living spaces such as homes ...

IEEE2014

Roombots: A Hardware Perspective on 3D Self-Reconfiguration and Locomotion with a Homogeneous Modular Robot

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi

In this work we provide hands-on experience on designing and testing a self-reconfiguring modular robotic system, Roombots (RB), to be used among others for adaptive furniture. In the long term, we envision that RB can be used to create sets of furniture, ...

Elsevier2014

Design and Evaluation of a Graphical iPad Application for Arranging Adaptive Furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Rico Möckel, Julia Fink, Stéphane Bonardi, Jérémy Blatter

We present the design and evaluation of an iPad application that will be used to operate the modular robots “Roombots”. Roombots are the building blocks for adaptive pieces of furniture. The application allows a user to arrange adaptive furniture within a ...

2012

Roombots-Towards Decentralized Reconfiguration with Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotic Metamodules

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Mikaël Mayer, Rico Möckel, Pierre-André Mudry, Stéphane Bonardi

This paper presents our work towards a decentralized reconfiguration strategy for self-reconfiguring modular robots, assembling furniture-like structures from Roombots metamodules. We explore how reconfiguration by locomotion from a configuration A to a co ...

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Locomotion in modular robots based on central pattern generators

Auke Ijspeert, Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Jérôme Maye

2008

Automatic Generation of Reduced CPG Control Networks for Locomotion of Arbitrary Modular Robot Structures

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Soha Pouya, Jesse van den Kieboom, Stéphane Bonardi

The design of efficient locomotion controllers for arbitrary structures of reconfigurable modular robots is challenging because the morphology of the structure can change dynamically during the completion of a task. In this paper, we propose a new method t ...

2014

Exploring adaptive locomotion with YaMoR, a novel autonomous modular robot with Bluetooth interface

Auke Ijspeert, Rico Möckel

2006

An Easy to Use Bluetooth Scatternet Protocol for fast Data Exchange in Wireless Sensor Networks and Autonomous Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Jérôme Maye

2007

Compliant and adaptive control of a planar monopod hopper in rough terrain

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji, Rico Möckel, Soha Pouya

IEEE2013

An experimental study on the role of compliant elements on the locomotion of the self-reconfigurable modular robots Roombots

Auke Ijspeert, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi

This paper presents the results of a study on the exploitation of compliance in structures made of self-reconfigurable modular robots - Roombots. This research was driven by the following three hypotheses: (1) compliance can improve locomotion performance; ...

Ieee2013

Locomotion through Reconfiguration based on Motor Primitives for Roombots Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Alexander Spröwitz, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi

We present the hardware and reconfiguration experiments for an autonomous self-reconfigurable modular robot called Roombots (RB). RB were designed to form the basis for self-reconfigurable furniture. Each RB module contains three degrees of freedom that ha ...

IEEE2012

Adaptive Locomotion Control in Modular Robotics

Auke Ijspeert, Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Jérôme Maye

2007