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Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

An aerial vehicle, configured to transport cargo, and including a propulsion system and a foldable cage is described. The foldable cage is substantially linear while in a folded configuration, and substantially circular while in a deployed configuration. M ...

2017

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Zappetti

In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells. We describe a novel strategy to realize tensegrity structures using planar manufacturing te ...

Springer2017

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Semi- or fully-autonomous Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) are currently studied and developed by public and private organizations as a solution for traffic congestion. While optimal collision-free navigation algorithms have been proposed for autonomous rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Thibaut André Pierre Paschal, Stefano Mintchev

Bio-inspired underwater robots have several benefits compared to traditional underwater vehicles such as agility, efficiency, and an environmentally friendly body. However, the bio-inspired underwater robots developed so far have a single swimming mode, wh ...

2017

Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

For micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) involved in search and rescue missions, the ability to locate the source of a distress sound signal is significantly important and allows fast localization of victims and rescuers during nighttime, through foliage and in du ...

John Wiley & Sons2017

A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field

Dario Floreano, Alice Tonazzini

Remote magnetic navigation of catheters is a technique used to perform radiofrequency ablation of heart tissue in order to treat cardiac arrhythmias. The flexible magnetic catheters used in this context are in some cases not sufficiently dexterous to navig ...

IEEE2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz, Stefano Mintchev

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Pavan P Ramdya, Robin Thandiackal

To escape danger or catch prey, running vertebrates rely on dynamic gaits with minimal ground contact. By contrast, most insects use a tripod gait that maintains at least three legs on the ground at any given time. One prevailing hypothesis for this differ ...

Nature Research2017

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

Dario Floreano, Flavio Noca, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Stefano Mintchev, Matteo Di Luca

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness fiber made of silicone and low melting point alloys quickly becomes >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above 62 °C. It shows remarkable self-healing properties and can be clamped, knitted, and bonded, as shown ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Memetic Viability Evolution for Constrained Optimization

Dario Floreano, Andrea Maesani, Giovanni Iacca

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adapta- tion Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms for unconstrai ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Stefano Mintchev

An aerial vehicle including self-autonomous deployable arms and methods of deploying the vehicle are disclosed. The arms may include patterns located thereon that allow the arms to transition between wrapped, flat, and deployed configurations autonomously ...

2016

A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are rapidly becoming an essential tool in search and rescue missions because they can rapidly gather information from inaccessible or unsafe locations, thus increasing safety and rapidity of interventions. With this aim, we present a pocket s ...

Ieee2016

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A highly versatile soft gripper that can handle an unprecedented range of object types is developed based on a new design of dielectric elastomer actuators employing an interdigitated electrode geometry, simultaneously maximizing both electroadhesion and e ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

In a team of autonomous drones, individual knowledge about the relative location of teammates is essential. Existing relative positioning solutions for teams of small drones mostly rely on external systems such as motion tracking cameras or GPS satellites ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), a soft actuator technology, hold great promise for biomimetic underwater robots. The high-voltages required to drive DEAs can however make them challenging to use in water. This paper demonstrates a method to create D ...

Ieee2016

Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Morphology plays an important role in behavioral and locomotion strategies of living and artificial systems. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not only extend dynamic performances by reducing tradeoffs during locomotion b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

Dario Floreano, Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are increasingly adopted in search and rescue missions because of their capability to quickly collect and stream information from remote and dangerous areas. To further enhance their use, we are investigating the development of a new class of ...

Ieee2016

A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod

We aim at developing autonomous miniature hovering flying robots capable of navigating in unstructured GPS-denied environments. A major challenge is the miniaturization of the embedded sensors and processors that allow such platforms to fly by themselves. ...

Springer Verlag2016

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

Dario Floreano, Guillaume Paul Olivier Leclerc, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca

Evolutionary algorithms are increasingly being applied to problems that are too computationally expensive to run on a single personal computer due to costly fitness function evaluations and/or large numbers of fitness evaluations. Here, we introduce the Se ...

ACM Press2016

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