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A Case for the Design of Attention and Gesture Systems for Social Robots

Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Utku Norman

The success of social robots, even (or, especially) in use cases as simple as "manning" a booth to promote a product in a shopping mall, depends on their ability of interacting with humans in a timely, effective and enjoyable way. In this paper we present ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Accessible Maker-based Approaches to Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Amaury Robert Dame, Aditya Mehrotra

Educational Robotics holds the potential to promote the development of important 21st century skills, such as creativity and problem-solving skills in addition to digital literacy. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed particular obstac ...

2021

Children, Robots, and Virtual Agents: Present and Future Challenges

Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi

Research on child-agent interaction is rapidly expanding. It is, therefore, necessary to converge our collective efforts to broaden our understanding and perspectives of how virtual agents, affect and potentially improve the well-being of children. "Childr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Learning strategies and representations for intuitive robot learning from demonstration

Thibaut Antoine Kulak

Robots are becoming more and more present around us, both in industries and in our homes. One key capability of robots is their adaptability to various situations that might appear in the real world. Robot skill learning is therefore a crucial aspect of ro ...

EPFL2021

Cognitive Learning with a Robot: The Case of Script Acquisition

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

This research is situated in a specialized context offering a rarely occurring opportunity for research questions and technical objectives about language acquisition. The Kazakh language transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan raises chall ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction

Carine Rognon

Robotic teleoperation is fundamental to augment the resilience, precision, and force of robots with the cognition of the operator. However, current interfaces, such as joysticks and remote controllers, are often complicated to handle since they require cog ...

EPFL2019

Optimal transport of closed differential forms for convex costs

Bernard Dacorogna, Olivier Kneuss

Let c : A(k-1) -> R+ be convex and Omega subset of R-n be a bounded domain. Let f(0) and f(1) be two closed k-forms on Omega satisfying appropriate boundary conditions. We discuss the minimization of integral(Omega) c (A) dx over a subset of (k - 1)-forms ...

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2015

Neuroprosthetic rehabilitation and translational mechanism after severe spinal cord injury

Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler

Traumatic SCIs have long-term health, economic and social consequences, stressing the urgency to develop interventions to improve recovery after such injuries. Today, the only proven effective interventions to enhance recovery after SCI are activity-based ...

EPFL2014

Long-range and high-resolution distributed Brillouin fiber sensors | Capteur Brillouin réparti à fibre optique à haute résolution et longue portée

Luc Thévenaz

Brillouin-based distributed optical fiber sensors have been the subject of intense research in recent years because they offer a unique solution for continuous, real-time monitoring in civil engineering and petroleum industry. These sensors provide strain ...

2013

The Hand-bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz

We present a novel approach to mobile object manipulation for service in indoor environments. Current research in service robotics focus on single robots able to move, manipulate objects, and transport them to various locations. Our approach differs by tak ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Nonlinear Average Consensus

Martin Hasler, Leonidas Georgopoulos

We present an algorithm for nonlinear consensus in complex networks. Our motivation draws from analysis on the algorithm based on a weighted linear update protocol. Comparison of the asymptotic with early convergence rate encourages an alternative algorith ...

IEICE2009

Modeling and Optimization of a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll

We present a simple, behavior-based, distributed control algorithm to inspect a regular structure with a swarm of autonomous, miniature robots, using only on-board, local sensors. To estimate intrinsic advantages and limita- tions of the proposed control s ...

Springer2006

Small-Scale Robot Formation Movement Using a Simple On-Board Relative Positioning System

Alcherio Martinoli

We explore the problem of smallscale multirobot formation control using only an unsophisticated onboard relative positioning module. The robotic setup and module are implemented and tested in a realistic virtual simulator, using standard formation types an ...

2006

Modélisation et commande du moteur piézoélectrique à onde progressive

Matteo Bullo

Piezoelectric motors are resonant vibromotors. They represent a new actuator generation in the field of servo-drives. In particular, the travelling wave ultrasonic motor presents a high torque at low speed, a zero speed torque without feeding, low sensitiv ...

EPFL2005

Position Feedback for Microrobots based on Scanning Probe Microscopy

Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Marc Breguet, Ashwin Lal

A cluster of small cooperative robots capable of executing measurement and manipulation tasks is being developed within the scope of a European project. The robots are autonomous and have an overall dimension in the order of 1 cm/sup 3/. In this paper we p ...

2004