Guest editorial: Special issue on distributed robotics - from fundamentals to applications

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Neuroprosthetics to support impaired hand functions: A multidisciplinary approach combining brain-machine interfaces and wearable exoskeletons

Luca Randazzo

Neuroprosthetics, the discipline that aims at interfacing neural systems to artificially engineered devices, has witnessed in recent years important advancements towards the ultimate goal of augmenting and restoring human functions through technology and a ...

EPFL2018

Automated Calibration of a Biomimetic Space-Dependent Model for Zebrafish and Robot Collective Behaviour in a Structured Environment

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet

Bio-hybrid systems made of robots and animals can be useful tools both for biology and robotics. To socially integrate robots into animal groups the robots should behave in a biomimetic manner with close loop interactions between robots and animals. Behavi ...

Springer2017

Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics

Dario Floreano, Jamie Paik, Jun Shintake, Harshal Arun Sonar, Yegor Piskarev

We present a fully edible pneumatic actuator based on gelatin-glycerol material. The actuator is monolithic, fabricated via a molding process, and measures 90 mm in length, 20 mm in width, and 17 mm in thickness. Thanks to the material mechanical character ...

2017

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, François André Heremans

Humanoid robots are gaining much interest nowadays. This is partly motivated by the ability of such robots to replace humans in dangerous environments being specifically designed for humans, such as man-made or natural disaster scenarios. However, existing ...

Ieee2016

Dynamic Grasp Adaptation : From Humans To Robots

Miao Li

The human hand is an amazing tool, demonstrated by its incredible motor capability and remarkable sense of touch. To enable robots to work in a human-centric environment, it is desirable to endow robotic hands with human-like capabilities for grasping and ...

EPFL2016

Hand Impedance Measurements During Interactive Manual Welding With a Robot

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

This paper presents a study of hand impedance measurements comparatively across ten professional and 14 novice manual welders, when they are performing tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding interactively with the KUKA lightweight robot arm (LWR). The results sh ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Construction Automation with Autonomous Mobile Robots: A Review

Francesco Mondada, Stefan John Witwicki, Hadi Ardiny

We review state-of-the-art research into automated construction by autonomous mobile robots. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructure without human intervention; and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve in ...

2015

Human-Robot Interaction: Tackling the AI Challenges

Séverin Lemaignan

Human-Robot interaction is an area full of challenges for artificial intelligence: dynamic, partially unknown environments that are not originally designed for autonomous machines; a large variety of situations and objects to deal with, with possibly compl ...

2014

Anthropomorphism and Human Likeness in the Design of Robots and Human-Robot Interaction

Julia Fink

In this literature review we explain anthropomorphism and its role in the design of socially interactive robots and human-robot interaction. We illus-trate the social phenomenon of anthropomorphism which describes people’s tendency to attribute lifelike qu ...

Springer2012

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

Design, Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Reactive Distributed Robotic Systems

Grégory Mermoud

This dissertation describes a complete methodological framework for designing, modeling and optimizing a specific class of distributed systems whose dynamics result from the multiple, stochastic interactions of their constitutive components. These componen ...

EPFL2012

A Survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions

Aude Billard, Brenna Dee Argall

Robots come into physical contact with humans in both experimental and operational settings. Many potential factors motivate the detection of human contact, ranging from safe robot operation around humans, to robot behaviors that depend on human guidance. ...

Elsevier2010