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A Stochastic Approach to Contact-rich Manipulation

For robots to operate in unstructured environments, they are required to interact with objects through contact. Those contacts may be used to push objects to the side, deform objects, or manipulate objects in-hand. This thesis addresses the problem of cont ...

EPFL2025

GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim

Chenghao Xu

Photorealistic synthetic data and novel rendering techniques significantly advanced computer vision research. However, datasets focused on computer vision applications cannot be easily applied to robotics because they typically lack physics-related informa ...

SAGE Publications2025

An HMM-based Real-time Intervention Methodology for a Social Robot Supporting Learning

Mortadha Abderrahim, Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno

To make social robots effective in education, they need to be autonomous both in terms of assessing the student's engagement state as well as intervening effectively in soft real-time when necessary. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is an interpretable machine le ...

IEEE2023

The neuromechanics of animal locomotion: From biology to robotics and back

Auke Ijspeert, Pavan P Ramdya

Robotics and neuroscience are sister disciplines that both aim to understand how agile, efficient, and robust locomotion can be achieved in autonomous agents. Robotics has already benefitted from neuromechanical principles discovered by investigating anima ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

A game-based approach for evaluating and customizing handwriting training using an autonomous social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting learning is a long and complex process that takes about ten years to be fully mastered. Nearly one-third of all children aged 4-12 experiences handwriting difficulties and, sadly, most of them are left to fight them on their own, due to the sca ...

IEEE2022

Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

The articles in this special section focus on long term human motion prediction. This represents a key ability for advanced autonomous systems, especially if they operate in densely crowded and highly dynamic environments. In those settings understanding a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Automated Calibration of a Biomimetic Space-Dependent Model for Zebrafish and Robot Collective Behaviour in a Structured Environment

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy, Frank Bonnet

Bio-hybrid systems made of robots and animals can be useful tools both for biology and robotics. To socially integrate robots into animal groups the robots should behave in a biomimetic manner with close loop interactions between robots and animals. Behavi ...

Springer2017

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, François André Heremans

Humanoid robots are gaining much interest nowadays. This is partly motivated by the ability of such robots to replace humans in dangerous environments being specifically designed for humans, such as man-made or natural disaster scenarios. However, existing ...

Ieee2016

Human-Robot Interaction: Tackling the AI Challenges

Séverin Lemaignan

Human-Robot interaction is an area full of challenges for artificial intelligence: dynamic, partially unknown environments that are not originally designed for autonomous machines; a large variety of situations and objects to deal with, with possibly compl ...

2014

Anthropomorphism and Human Likeness in the Design of Robots and Human-Robot Interaction

Julia Fink

In this literature review we explain anthropomorphism and its role in the design of socially interactive robots and human-robot interaction. We illus-trate the social phenomenon of anthropomorphism which describes people’s tendency to attribute lifelike qu ...

Springer2012

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

Face classification using touch with a humanoid robot hand

Aude Billard, Nicolas Sommer

This paper presents an experiment in which the iCub humanoid robot learns to recognize faces through proprioceptive information. We take inspiration in the way blind people recognize people's faces, i.e. through tactile exploration of the person's face. Th ...

2012

Design, Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Reactive Distributed Robotic Systems

Grégory Mermoud

This dissertation describes a complete methodological framework for designing, modeling and optimizing a specific class of distributed systems whose dynamics result from the multiple, stochastic interactions of their constitutive components. These componen ...

EPFL2012

A Survey of Tactile Human-Robot Interactions

Aude Billard, Brenna Dee Argall

Robots come into physical contact with humans in both experimental and operational settings. Many potential factors motivate the detection of human contact, ranging from safe robot operation around humans, to robot behaviors that depend on human guidance. ...

Elsevier2010

Brain-coupled Interaction for Semi-autonomous Navigation of an Assistive Robot

Roland Siegwart, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano

This paper presents a novel semi-autonomous navigation strategy designed for low throughput interfaces. A mobile robot (e.g. intelligent wheelchair) proposes the most probable action, as analyzed from the environment, to a human user who can either accept ...

Elsevier2010

Audio-visual detection of multiple chirping robots

Francesco Mondada, Alexey Gribovskiy

Design, study, and control of mixed animals-robots societies are the fields of scientific exploration that can bring new opportunities for study and control of groups of social insects and animals and, in particular, for improvement of welfare and breeding ...

IOS Press2008