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How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Yousef Jalali, Beanta Christina Elisabeth Alberink

The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

EPFL2024

Autonomous construction with a mobile robot in a resource-limited environment: a demonstration of the integration of perception, planning and action

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Alexey Gribovskiy

This demo presents a miniature mobile robot performing autonomous construction in an environment where resources are limited. After an exploration phase, the robot builds a structure at a designated location according to an order from a human. Since local ...

IOS Press2012

Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

We study cooperative navigation for robotic swarms in the context of a general event-servicing scenario. In the scenario, one or more events need to be serviced at specific locations by robots with the required skills. We focus on the question of how the s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Magnebike: A Magnetic Wheeled Robot with High Mobility for Inspecting Complex-Shaped Structures

Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche

This paper describes the Magnebike robot, a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a motorbike arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of ferromagnetic pipes with complex-shaped structures. The locomotion concept is based on an ad ...

2009

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

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

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

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education

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

In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by designing them to be pe ...

ACM2017

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

Climbing robot with thermal glue

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat

Climbing robots require an adhesion principle in order to overcome gravity. Many physical principles have been used. In this work, the use of thermal glue is proposed. The implementation of miniature thermal glue dispenser is presented with experimental re ...

World Scientific2011

Real-Time Audio-Visual Calls Detection System for a Chicken Robot

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy

Design, study, and control of mixed animals-robots societies is the field of scientific exploration that can bring new opportunities for study and control of groups of social animals. In the Chicken Robot project we develop a mobile robot, socially accepta ...

2009

Fuzzy Control System for Autonomous Navigation and Parking of Thymio II Mobile Robots

Francesco Mondada

This paper proposed a fuzzy controller for the autonomous navigation problem of robotic systems in a dynamic and uncertain environment. In particular, we are interested in determining the robot motion to reach the target while ensuring their own safety and ...

2014

Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris

We present in this paper a realistic looking robotic survival challenge simulation. Using a model of the e-puck, an open-source mobile robot designed for educational purposes, our simulation allows several players to program the behaviour of e-pucks compet ...

Springer2008

Design of a modular robotic system that mimics small fish locomotion and body movements for ethological studies

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet, Bertrand Eric Collignon

Robotic animals are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bioinspired robotics, biomimetics, and animal behavioral studies. The design of these robots poses great challenges as they often have to achieve very high-level performances in ...

Sciyo2017

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Roland Siegwart, Francesco Mondada, Gilles Caprari, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Fabien Tâche, Andreas Breitenmoser

This paper reports on a 3 years applied research project dealing with several inspection scenarios of power plants and resulting in many robot prototypes and 3 main achievements. The project is a common effort between industry and university, including ALS ...

IEEE Press2010

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Adam Klaptocz

Mobile robots have the potential to become the ideal tool to teach a broad range of engineering disciplines. Indeed, mobile robots are getting increasingly complex and accessible. They embed elements from diverse ﬁelds such as mechanics, digital electronic ...

IPCB: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco2009

Development of algorithmic thinking skills in K-12 education: A comparative study of unplugged and digital assessment instruments

Francesco Mondada

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital competencies, the need for a robust and universal method to assess students’ algorithmic thinking (AT) skills has become increasingly pronounced. Algorithmic thinking refers to the ability to analyse a problem a ...

2024

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

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

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

A review: Can robots reshape K-12 STEM education?

Francesco Mondada, Séverin Lemaignan

Can robots in classroom reshape K-12 STEM education, and foster new ways of learning? To sketch an answer, this article reviews, side-by-side, existing literature on robot-based learning activities featuring mathematics and physics (purposefully putting as ...

IEEE2015

Dataset to Model the Sustainability of a Primary School Digital Education Curricular Reform and Professional Development Program

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse the sustainability of an in-service teacher training program for Digital Education that took place from September 2019 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. As such, the study f ...

Zenodo2022

The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Valentin Longchamp, Daniel Burnier

Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...

IEEE Press2010

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