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Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Although the technology for fully autonomous swarms of robots is rapidly progressing, the human operator will continue to play an important role during any swarming mission due to safety, monitoring and control constraints. In this paper, we present the se ...

Springer2016

Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adam Klaptocz, Mirko Kovac, Jürg Markus Germann

Many environments where robots are expected to operate are cluttered with objects, walls, debris, and different horizontal and vertical structures. In this chapter, we present four design features that allow small robots to rapidly and safely move in 3 dim ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2016

Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks

Dario Floreano, Bixio Rimoldi, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Stefano Rosati, Karol Jacek Kruzelecki

This paper reports experimental results on self-organizing wireless networks carried by small flying robots. Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) composed of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are flexible, inexpensive and fast to deploy. This makes them a v ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry

Dario Floreano

In this study, a miniature artificial compound eye (15 mm in diameter) called the curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) was endowed for the first time with hyperacuity, using similar micro-movements to those occurring in the fly's compound eye. A period ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Joshua Evan Auerbach

The promise of Evolutionary Robotics (ER) to completely automatize the design of robot controllers and/or morphologies is an idea with great appeal not only to researchers, but also to students. However, when attempting to grab and hold student interest, t ...

ACM2015

An artificial elementary eye with optic flow detection and compositional properties

Dario Floreano, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Ramon Pericet Camara

We describe a 2 mg artificial elementary eye whose structure and functionality is inspired by compound eye ommatidia. Its optical sensitivity and electronic architecture are sufficient to generate the required signals for the measurement of local optic flo ...

2015

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Maja Varga, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz

There are many situations where fixed-wing drones may be required to track ground moving agents, such as humans or cars, which are typically slower than drones. Some control strategies have been proposed and validated in simulations using the average dista ...

Elsevier2015

Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

2015

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Stefano Mintchev

With the aim to extend the versatility and adaptability of robots in complex environments, a novel multi-modal flying and walking robot is presented. The robot consists of a flying wing with adaptive morphology that can perform both long distance flight an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

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

We report on an actuator based on dielectric elastomers that is capable of antagonistic actuation and passive folding. This actuator enables foldability in robots with simple structures. Unlike other antagonistic dielectric elastomer devices, our concept u ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

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

A novel variable stiffness actuator composed of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) embedded silicone substrate is demonstrated. The device which we call variable stiffness dielectric elastomer actuator (VSDEA) enable ...

IEEE2015

Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Maja Varga, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz

Teams of fixed wing micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) could provide a wide area coverage and relay data in wireless ad-hoc networks. In such applications fixed wing MAVs have to be able to regulate an inter-robot distance. Fixed wing MAVs have reduced maneuvera ...

2015

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Louis Lazare Saint-Raymond, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Stefano Mintchev

Aerial robots provide valuable support in several high-risk scenarios thanks to their capability to quickly fly to locations dangerous or even inaccessible to humans. In order to fully benefit from these features, aerial robots should be easy to transport ...

2015

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

Dario Floreano, Andrea Maesani, Pavan P Ramdya, Kyle Gustafson

The neural mechanisms determining the timing of even simple actions, such as when to walk or rest, are largely mysterious. One intriguing, but untested, hypothesis posits a role for ongoing activity fluctuations in neurons of central action selection circu ...

2015

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

Dario Floreano, Lukas Frisch, Pawel Lichocki, Winnie Wing Yee Tse, Pavan P Ramdya

Collective behaviour enhances environmental sensing and decision-making in groups of animals. Experimental and theoretical investigations of schooling fish, flocking birds and human crowds have demonstrated that simple interactions between individuals can ...

2015

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler, Arnaud Garnier, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

A VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aerial flying vehicle comprising an inner frame, a gimbal system and an outer frame, the inner frame comprising a propulsion system and a control system, the propulsion system being able to generate a lift force. The ...

2014

Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots

Dario Floreano, Jürg Markus Germann, Bryan Edward Schubert

With the ongoing rise of soft robots there emerges a need for new soft robotic technologies that can cope with hyper-flexibility and stretchability. In this paper, we describe our developments on enabling controllable adhesion, namely electroadhesion, for ...

Ieee2014

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

The demand for bendable sensors increases constantly in the challenging field of soft and micro-scale robotics. We present here, in more detail, the flexible, functional, insect-inspired curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) that was previously introduc ...

Mdpi Ag2014

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