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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

ASSISI: Mixing Animals with Robots in a Hybrid Society

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Martina Szopek

This paper describes the newly started EU-funded FP7 project ASSISI|bf, which deals with mixed societies: A honeybee society integrated with a group of stationary and interacting autonomous robotic nodes and a group of fish integrated in a society of auton ...

Springer2013

The Autonomous Photovoltaic MarXbot

Francesco Mondada, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, Martin Olivier Liniger

Domestic service robots are currently powered by the mains electricity. The growing multiplication of such devices negatively impacts our environment. In this study, we show the feasibility of harvesting energy from natural light in an indoor environment. ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

IEEE2013

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Dario Floreano, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Daniel Burnier, Valentin Longchamp, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

2013

Towards bio-hybrid systems made of social animals and robots

Francesco Mondada

For making artificial systems collaborate with group-living animals, the scientific challenge is to build artificial systems that can perceive, communicate to, interact with and adapt to animals. When such capabilities are available then it should be possi ...

Springer2013

Thymio II, a robot that grows wiser with children

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Thymio II is a small robot developed for education. It aims at offering a wide public the possibility to understand the basics of robotics and programming. To achieve this, it aims at being appealing to a large age range and serve as a medium for several t ...

IEEE2013

Towards Long-Term Collective Experiments

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, François Rey, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

It is often challenging to manage the battery supply when dealing with a fleet of mobile robots during long experiments. If one uses classical recharge stations, then agents are immobilized during the whole recharge process. In this study, we present a nov ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Involving and training public school teachers in using robotics for education

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Mariza Freire

The introduction of technology in the public school teaching process could help increasing the weak motivation we can observe toward engineering studies. To achieve this goal, one main obstacle is motivating public school teachers to use technological tool ...

2012

Building a safe robot for behavioral biology experiments

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Alexey Gribovskiy

IEEE2012

A Programming Workshop using the Robot "Thymio II": The Effect on the Understanding by Children

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo

Robots are both fascinating objects for the general public and devices whose conception, understanding and pro- gramming involve many fields. This unique combination makes them an ideal tool for introducing science and technology to children. This paper pr ...

IEEE2012

Integration of Online Learning into HTN Planning for Robotic Tasks

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Stéphane Magnenat

This paper extends hierarchical task network (HTN) planning with lightweight learning, considering that in robotics, actions have a non-zero probability of failing. Our work applies to A*-based HTN planners with lifting. We prove that the planner finds the ...

2012

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Francesco Mondada, Fanny Riedo, Philippe Rétornaz

Technology is playing an increasing role in our society. Therefore it becomes important to educate the general public, and young generations in particular, about the most common technologies. In this context, robots are excellent education tools, for many ...

Springer2012

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

Autonomous construction using scarce resources in unknown environments - Ingredients for an intelligent robotic interaction with the physical world

Francesco Mondada, Roland Philippsen, Stéphane Magnenat

The goal of creating machines that autonomously perform useful work in a safe, robust and intelligent manner continues to motivate robotics research. Achieving this autonomy requires capabilities for understanding the environment, physically interacting wi ...

Springer Verlag2012

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Francesco Mondada, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

The market of domestic service robots, and especially vacuum cleaners, has kept growing during the past decade. According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 1 million units were sold worldwide in 2010. Currently, there is no in-depth an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Physical interactions in swarm robotics: the hand-bot case study

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

This paper presents a case-study on the performance achieved by the mechanical interactions of self-assembling mobile robots. This study is based on the hand-bot robot, designed to operate within heterogeneous swarms of robots. The hand-bot is specialized ...

Springer2012

Analysis of Impact of an Annual Robotics Festival

Francesco Mondada, Fanny Riedo, Mariza Freire, Julia Fink

For four years a robotics festival has taken place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. As the number of visitors has rapidly grown from a few thousands to a dozen thousands, it gives an opportunity to investigate who is ...

IEEE2012

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

John Wiley & Sons2012

Development of a mobile robot to study the collective behavior of zebrafish

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet

A robot accepted by animals as conspecifics is a very powerful tool in behavioral biology, particularly in studies of gregarious animals. In this paper we present a robotic zebrafish designed for experiments on the collective animal behavior. The robot con ...

Ieee2012

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