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Tubulo II: magnetic climbing inchworm for inspection of boiler tubes

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich

TUBULO II is a climbing inspection robot with for inner inspection of boiler tubes. Its locomotion principle is the inchworm type. The adhesion is realized with Magnetic Switchable Device [1]. The inner is able to operate within a tube of inner bore diamet ...

World Scientific2011

Cy-mag3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Barthélémy Lüthi

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a novel miniature magnetic climbing robot for industrial inspection. The robot has high mobility with low complexity. ...

2011

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Francesco Mondada, Alcherio Martinoli, Michael Bonani, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a consid ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

ASEBA: A Modular Architecture for Event-Based Control of Complex Robots

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Valentin Longchamp, Philippe Rétornaz

We propose ASEA, a modular architecture for event-based control of complex robots. ASEBA runs scripts inside virtual machines on self-contained sensor and actuator nodes. This distributes processing with no loss of versatility and provides several benefits ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Tremo: an inspection climbing inchworm based on magnetic switchable device

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

TREMO is a compact magnetic climbing inchworm with the capability to move in complex ferromagnetic environments. The robot fits inside a cylinder of 500 mm in height and 120 mm in diameter for an approximate weight of 800 g. It has a modular configuration ...

World Scientific2011

Communication assisted navigation in robotic swarms: self-organization and cooperation

Francesco Mondada

We present a communication based navigation algorithm for robotic swarms. It lets robots guide each other's navigation by exchanging messages containing navigation information through the wireless network formed among the swarm. We study the use of this al ...

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Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz

IEEE Press2011

A Social Approach for Target Localization: Simulation and Implementation in the marXbot Robot

Francesco Mondada, Andres Perez-Uribe, Andres Upegui, Philippe Rétornaz

Foraging is a common benchmark problem in collective robotics in which a robot (the forager) explores a given environment while collecting items for further deposition at specific locations. A typical real-world application of foraging is garbage collectio ...

2011

Towards an Autonomous Evolution of Non-Biological Physical Organisms

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Roderich Gross, Lorenz Küchler

We propose an experimental study where simplistic organ- isms rise from inanimate matter and evolve solely through physical interactions. These organisms are composed of three types of macroscopic building blocks floating in an agitated medium. The dynamis ...

Springer Verlag2011

Climbing robot with thermal glue

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Vitalis Hirschmann, Frédéric Rochat, Thierry Barras

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

TRIPILLAR: Miniature magnetic caterpillar climbing robot with plane transition ability

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich

We present a miniature magnetic climbing robot with dimensions 96 x 46 x 64mm(3). With two degrees of freedom it is able to climb ferromagnetic surfaces and to make inner plane to plane transitions whatever their inclination is. This robot, named TRIPILLAR ...

Cambridge University Press2011

Cy-mag3De: magnetic climbing inspection robot

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Marti

Cy-Mag3De is a magnetic climbing inspection robot with advanced mobility. It is based on an innovative, award-winning and patented magnetic design. Its mobility is further enhanced thanks to a novel active tail. The robot has a cylindrical shape of 80 mm i ...

World Scientific2011

Design of Magnetic Switchable Device (MSD) and applications in climbing robot

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich

A Magnetic Switchable Device (MSD) is a ferromagnetic circuit using permanent magnets where the flux can circulate between different paths when its configuration is changed. This routes or cancels the flux through specific surfaces, and thus turns on or of ...

World Scientific2010

Towards Mixed Societies of Chickens and Robots

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Alexey Gribovskiy

To design, to study, and to control mixed animals-robots societies is a challenging field of scientific exploration that can bring new frameworks to study individual and collective behaviors in animal and mixed robot-animal societies. In the Chicken Robot ...

IEEE Press2010

Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Paolo Germano, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Valentin Longchamp, Philippe Rétornaz

SLAM is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Applications areas such as consumer robotics appliances would clearly benefit from low-cost and compact SLAM implementations. The SLAM research community has developed s ...

IEEE Press2010

Magnetic wheels optimization and application to the MagneBike climbing robot

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich

Magnetic wheels are a powerful solution to design inspection climbing robots with excellent mobility. Magnetic wheels optimization based on simulations and the results that were obtained on prototypes are presented. The measured adhesion was doubled betwee ...

World Scientific2010

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

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

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

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

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

MagneBike: Compact magnetic wheeled robot for power plant inspection

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

IEEE Press2010

Tubulo - a train-like miniature inspection climbing robot for ferromagnetic tubes

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Hannes Bleuler, Gilles Caprari, Frédéric Rochat, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich

A train-like miniature climbing inspection robot for ferromagnetic tubes is presented in this paper. Using magnetic wheels, it climbs in tubes of 25 mm of diameter and bigger in any orientation, and pass bends with curvatures above 150 mm in some cases. It ...

IEEE Press2010

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