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Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device

David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Carine Rognon, Alice Ghislaine Concordel

A system for interacting with a remote object comprising a wearable jacket for a user, two actuators for supporting arms of the user, motors for causing movements to at least one of a torso and the arms of the user, and sensors for measuring at least one o ...

2018

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu, Carine Rognon

Haptic guidance has been shown to improve performance in many fields as it can give additional information without overloading other sensory channels such as vision or audition. Our group is investigating new intuitive ways to interact with robots, and we ...

2018

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

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

The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza

The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...

2019

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen, Dario Floreano, 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

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier

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

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

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

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

FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control

David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Carine Rognon, Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod

Most human–drone interfaces, such as joysticks and remote controllers, require attention and developed skills during teleoperation. Wearable interfaces could enable a more natural and intuitive control of drones, which would make this technology accessible ...

2018

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu, Carine Rognon

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake

Origami manufacturing has led to considerable advances in the field of foldable structures with innovative applications in robotics, aerospace, and metamaterials. However, existing origami are either load-bearing structures that are prone to tear and fail ...

2018

Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system

David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Silvestro Micera, Stefano Mintchev, Fiorenzo Artoni, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Martina Coscia, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod

A method for remotely controlling an operated unmanned object, comprises defining of a set of control movements of an operator; selecting of minimal necessary signals to reliably acquire the operator's control movements; defining of a mapping of the contro ...

2019

Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Matthew Alfonso Estrada

Micro air vehicles (MAVs) are finding use across an expanding range of applications. However, when interacting with the environment, they are limited by the maximum thrust they can produce. Here, we describe FlyCroTugs, a class of robots that adds to the m ...

2018

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

Ori-Pixel, a Multi-DoFs Origami Pixel for Modular Reconfigurable Surfaces

Jamie Paik, Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno

Reconfigurable surfaces using robotic pixels can produce discretize 3D contours, shapes and motion patterns. In existing devices, the rendering resolution and richness of shapes and patterns are limited by the use of linear pixels that only produce single ...

2020

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Jun Shintake, 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

Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness device, including a core including a low melting point alloy, an encapsulation surrounding the core, the encapsulation made of an elastic material and sealing the core, and a heating device arranged around the encapsulation, configured ...

2017

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Ludovic Daler

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