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Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

John Wiley & Sons2012

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

This paper reports on a 3 years applied research project dealing with several inspection scenarios of power plants and resulting in many robot prototypes and 3 main achievements. The project is a common effort between industry and university, including ALS ...

IEEE Press2010

Magnetic wheels optimization and application to the MagneBike climbing robot

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich

Magnetic wheels are a powerful solution to design inspection climbing robots with excellent mobility. Magnetic wheels optimization based on simulations and the results that were obtained on prototypes are presented. The measured adhesion was doubled betwee ...

World Scientific2010

MagneBike: Compact magnetic wheeled robot for power plant inspection

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, François Pomerleau

IEEE Press2010

Magnebike: A Magnetic Wheeled Robot with High Mobility for Inspecting Complex-Shaped Structures

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche

This paper describes the Magnebike robot, a compact robot with two magnetic wheels in a motorbike arrangement, which is intended for inspecting the inner casing of ferromagnetic pipes with complex-shaped structures. The locomotion concept is based on an ad ...

2009

Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

Francesco Mondada, Alcherio Martinoli, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Masoud Asadpour, Nicolaus Correll

Collective behavior based on self-organization has been shown in group-living animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have stimulated engineers to investigate approaches for the coordination of autonomous multirobot systems based on self-organi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2007

Compact Magnetic Wheeled Robot with High Mobility for Inspecting Complex Shaped Pipes Structures

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Fabien Tâche

IEEE Press2007

Adapted magnetic wheel unit for compact robots inspecting complex shaped pipe structures

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Fabien Tâche

IEEE Press2007

Robot-Animal Interaction: Perception and Behavior of Insbot

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Walter Karlen, Fabien Tâche, Masoud Asadpour

This paper describes hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot in size of a match box that simulates the behavior of cockroaches in order to establish a social interaction with them. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedicated ...

2006

Robot-animal interaction: Perception and behavior of insbot

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Walter Karlen, Fabien Tâche, Masoud Asadpour

This paper describes the hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot in size of a match box that simulates the behavior of cockroaches in order to establish a social interaction with them. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedic ...

2005

Perception and Behavior of InsBot : Robot-Animal Interaction Issues

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Masoud Asadpour

2005

Toward Micro Wall-Climbing Robots Using Biomimetic Fibrillar Adhesives

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche

Climbing is a challenging task for autonomous mobile robots primarily due to requirements for agile locomotion, and high maneuverability as well as robust and efficient attachment and detachment. A novel miniature wall-climbing robot is proposed. The robot ...

2005

Perception and Behavior of InsBot : Robot-Animal Interaction Issues

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Walter Karlen, Fabien Tâche, Masoud Asadpour

This paper describes the hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot, in size of a match box, that is able to interact with cockroaches. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedicated to hardware processing and behavior generation. ...

2005