Palm OS

Permanent Magnet-Assisted Omnidirectional Ball Drive

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

We present an omnidirectional ball wheel drive design that utilizes a permanent magnet as the drive roller to generate the contact force. Particularly interesting for novel human-mobile robot interaction scenarios where the users are expected to physically ...

IEEE2016

A Handheld beta(+) Probe for Intra-Operative Detection of Radiotracers

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Christian Mester

A handheld probe for direct positron detection based on scintillators coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is presented in this paper. The battery-powered system is optimised for intra-operative use. It is fully sterilisable and wirelessly connected ...

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Low complexity image recognition algorithm for handheld applications

Pierre-André Farine, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Pradyumna Ayyalasomayajula

We propose a low complexity image recognition algorithm based on Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) suitable for handheld applications. The target application is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) device used in speech rehabilitation and ...

IEEE2011

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac, Grégory Savioz

The Self Deploying Microglider project aims at developing a novel palm sized robot that can climb up walls, deploy itself into the air, recover from every position in air and perform subsequent goal directed gliding and attachment to walls. So far, we deve ...

2007