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A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research

Many invertebrates are ideal model systems on which to base robot design principles due to their success in solving seemingly complex tasks across domains while possessing smaller nervous systems than vertebrates. Three areas are particularly relevant for ...

2023

A Dynamical System Approach to Decentralized Collision-free Autonomous Coordination of a Mobile Assistive Furniture Swarm

Auke Ijspeert, Aude Billard, Lukas Huber, Anastasia Bolotnikova

In order to facilitate and assist the indoor mobility of people with special needs, the classically static objects in the environment, such as furniture, can be rendered mobile. The need for efficient and safe autonomous coordination of a mobile furniture ...

IEEE2022

Haptigami: a fingertip haptic interface with vibrotactile and 3-DoF cutaneous force feedback

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Frédéric Henri Vaskin Giraud

Wearable fingertip haptic devices aim to deliver somatosensory feedback for applications such as virtual reality, rehabilitation, and enhancing hardware/physical control interfaces. However, providing various kinds of feedback requires several Degrees of F ...

2022

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

Collision avoidance in next-generation fiber positioner robotic systems for large survey spectrographs

Denis Gillet, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Laurent Frédéric Jenni, Laleh Makarem

Some of the next generation massive spectroscopic survey projects, plan to use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed at a focal plane to quickly move in parallel the fiber-ends from the previous to the next target points. The most direct trajectories ...

EDP Sciences SA2014

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

Localization is one of the key challenges that needs to be considered beforehand to design truly autonomous MAV teams. In this paper, we present a cooperative method to address the localization problem for a team of MAVs, where individuals obtain their pos ...

2014

Real-Time Automated Modeling and Control of Self-Assembling Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud, Utkarsh Upadhyay

We present the M3 framework, a formal and generic computational framework for modeling and controlling distributed stochastic systems of purely reactive robots in an automated and real-time fashion. Based on the trajectories of the robots, the framework bu ...

Ieee2012

Towards simple control for complex, autonomous robotic applications: Combining discrete and rhythmic motor primitives

Auke Ijspeert, Ludovic Righetti, Sarah Dégallier Rochat, Sébastien Gay

Vertebrates are able to quickly adapt to new environments in a very robust, seemingly effortless way. To explain both this adaptivity and robustness, a very promising perspective in neurosciences is the modular approach to movement generation: Movements re ...

Springer Verlag2011