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Social Integrating Robots Suggest Mitigation Strategies for Ecosystem Decay

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Rafael Botner Barmak

We develop here a novel hypothesis that may generate a general research framework of how autonomous robots may act as a future contingency to counteract the ongoing ecological mass extinction process. We showcase several research projects that have underta ...

2021

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Barbara Bruno

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are adequately developed. One such model is the Creative Computational Problem S ...

Springer2021

Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Matthieu Jean-Michel Philippe Broisin, Martina Szopek, Robert Matthew Mills, Rafael Botner Barmak

In a time marked by ecological decay and by the perspective of a severe backlash of this ecosystem decay and climate devastation onto human society, bold moves that employ novel technology to counteract this decline are required. We present a novel concept ...

MIT Press2021

Developing STEM and Team-working Skills Through Collaborative Space Robotics Missions

Francesco Mondada, Evgeniia Bonnet

Building on the success of the first North-South cross-continental collaborative educational robotics mission held in November 2015 [1], this paper presents a practical model for scaling the event up into a program for developing countries, particularly th ...

IEEE2021

The symbiotic relationship between educational robotics and computer science in formal education

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

Educational Robotics (ER) has the potential to provide significant benefits to edu-cation, provided an increase in outreach by transitioning from the extra-curricular initiatives in which ER has thrived to formal education. As Computer Science (CS) Educati ...

2021

Aligning the Design of Educational Robotics Tools With Classroom Activities

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

This chapter addresses the alignment of educational robotics (ER) tools with classroom activities. To this end, it first introduces a conceptualization of ER activities describing the relevant cognitive artifacts and the learning theories underlying such a ...

IGI Global2021

Investigating the Role of Educational Robotics in Formal Mathematics Education: The Case of Geometry for 15-Year-Old Students

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Jérôme Guillaume Brender, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

Research has shown that Educational Robotics (ER) enhances student performance, interest, engagement and collaboration. However, until now, the adoption of robotics in formal education has remained relatively scarce. Among other causes, this is due to the ...

Springer, Cham2021

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Strategies to modulate zebrafish collective dynamics with a closed-loop biomimetic robotic system

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet

The objective of this study is to integrate biomimetic robots into small groups of zebrafish and to modulate their collective behaviours. A possible approach is to have the robots behave like sheepdogs. In this case, the robots would behave like a differen ...

2020

Introducing a Paper-Based Programming Language for Computing Education in Classrooms

Francesco Mondada, Andrea Mussati, Noé Duruz, Christian Giang, Aditya Mehrotra

Past research has shown that the use of tangible platforms for computingeducation can enhance students’ interest, engagement and collaboration within workgroups. However, to this day, the adoption of such interfaces in classrooms has remained relatively sc ...

ACM2020

Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show the worth of tangible manipulation of robots in educational contexts. In this article, we present the design and the evalua ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Formation des enseignant·e·s au numérique Rapport sur la deuxième année de formation à l’Education Numérique aux Cycles 1 et 2A en Collaboration avec la HEP Vaud, l’UNIL et le DFJC

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Caroline Pulfrey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Gregory Vivian Raymond Liegeois, Marjorie Michèle Maryse Coestier, Adrien José Raymond Garcia

Le Département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture (DFJC) du canton de Vaud a lancé en 2018 un vaste chantier numérique dans ses écoles. En août 2018, dix établissements ont débuté une phase pilote afin de tester différentes modal- ités de dév ...

EPFL - Learn Center for Learning Sciences2020

Robot swarms as an educational tool: The Thymio’s way

Francesco Mondada

Robotics provides useful tools for educational purposes, allowing to engage students in learning within disparate domains, from computer science and artificial intelligence – traditionally the main domains for educational robotics – to general education, h ...

2019

Localization of inexpensive robots with low-bandwidth sensors

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Shiling Wang, Ming Liu

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

Formation des Enseignant·e·s au Numérique: Rapport sur la Première Année de Formation à la Science Informatique au Cycle 1 en Collaboration avec la HEP Vaud, l’Unil et le DFJC

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto

Le département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture (DFJC) a lancé en 2018 un vaste chantier numérique dans le Canton de Vaud dont la première priorité est l’école vaudoise. En août 2018, 10 établissements on débuté une phase pilote afin de tes ...

EPFL2019

Magnet-assisted ball drive

Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Ayberk Özgür, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The present invention concerns a magnet-assisted ball drive. The drive comprises a ball and a drive element in contact with the ball. The drive element is arranged to be rotated around its axis of rotation to drive the ball. The ball and the drive element ...

2019

Device and method for sorting biological entities

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Norbert Crot, Marcin Antoni Sylwestrzak

A device for sorting biological entities is disclosed. The device comprises a channel to canalize the biological entities and a selector having slots to accommodate said entities. Means for detecting and analysing an optical parameter of the biological ent ...

2019

Bidirectional interactions facilitate the integration of a robot into a shoal of zebrafish Danio rerio

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Bertrand Eric Collignon, Vaios Papaspyros

Many studies on collective animal behavior seek to identify the individual rules that underlie collective patterns. However, it was not until the recent advancements of micro-electronic and embedded systems that scientists were able to create mixed groups ...

2019

Autonomous Exploration for Radioactive Hotspots Localization Taking Account of Sensor Limitations

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Effective radioactive hotspot localization and detection is limited by sensor characteristics (i.e., the long acquisition time and poor angular resolution AR of a gamma camera) that significantly degrade the performance of autonomous exploration in terms o ...

2019

Heuristics for the Development and Evaluation of Educational Robotics Systems

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Contribution: While previous research has studied the use of educational robotics in classrooms, there is still a lack of methods to support the development and evaluation of such tools. To this end, this paper presents an evaluation framework and a corres ...

2019

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