Publications by Christopher Cianci

Towards Optimally Efficient Field Estimation with Threshold-Based Pruning in Real Robotic Sensor Networks

Alcherio Martinoli, Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok, Christopher Cianci

The efficiency of distributed sensor networks depends on an optimal trade-off between the usage of resources and data quality. The work in this paper addresses the problem of optimizing this trade-off in a self-configured distributed robotic sensor network ...

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The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Alcherio Martinoli, Dario Floreano, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, Christopher Cianci, James Pugh, Adam Klaptocz

Mobile robots have the potential to become the ideal tool to teach a broad range of engineering disciplines. Indeed, mobile robots are getting increasingly complex and accessible. They embed elements from diverse ﬁelds such as mechanics, digital electronic ...

IPCB: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco2009

Distributed intelligent algorithms for robotic sensor networks monitoring discontinuous anisotropic environmental fields

Christopher Cianci

Robotic sensor networks, at the junction between distributed robotics and wireless sensor networks, represent a strategic convergence between mobile and networked systems. In this thesis, we have begun to explore this crossover, and where possible, to brin ...

EPFL2009

Assembly of Configurations in a Networked Robotic System: A Case Study on a Reconfigurable Interactive Table Lamp

Alcherio Martinoli, Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok, Christopher Cianci

In the present study, we are interested in verifying how the progressive addition of constraints on communication and localization impact the performance of a swarm of small robots in shape formation tasks. Identified to be of importance in a swarm-user in ...

IEEE Press2008

Exploration of an Incremental Suite of Microscopic Models for Acoustic Event Monitoring Using a Robotic Sensor Network

Alcherio Martinoli, Christopher Cianci, James Pugh

Simulation is frequently used in the study of multi-agent systems. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is not necessarily clear how faithfully the details of the simulated model represent the behavior of the physical system. Often, the effects of the environm ...

IEEE2008

SwisTrack - A Flexible Open Source Tracking Software for Multi-Agent Systems

Jacques Jacot, Alcherio Martinoli, Pierre Roduit, Thomas Lochmatter, Nicolaus Correll, Christopher Cianci

Vision-based tracking is used in nearly all robotic laboratories for monitoring and extracting of agent positions, orientations, and trajectories. However, there is currently no accepted standard software solution available, so many research groups resort ...

IEEE2008

Dynamic Control of a Robotic Swarm using a Service-Oriented Architecture

Vlad Trifa, Christopher Cianci

The development, deployment, and control of groups of robots is a tedious process even for experienced roboticists. Particularly in heterogeneous systems a high granularity of control and visibility is difficult to achieve. The lack of standardized interfa ...

2008

Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics

Alcherio Martinoli, Xavier Raemy, Christopher Cianci, James Pugh

Swarm intelligence, and swarm robotics in particular, are reaching a point where leveraging the potential of communication within an artificial systempromises to uncover newand varied directions for interesting research without compromising the key propert ...

2007

Toward Multi-Level Modeling of Robotic Sensor Networks: A Case Study in Acoustic Event Monitoring

Alcherio Martinoli, Thomas Lochmatter, Christopher Cianci, James Pugh

Modeling and simulation can be powerful tools for analyzing multi-agent systems, such as networked robotic systems and sensor networks. In this paper, it is shown concretely how instances of both these elements fit into a general methodology for multi-leve ...

2007

Self-Organized Embedded Sensor/Actuator Networks for ''Smart'' Turbines

Alcherio Martinoli, Xavier Raemy, Nicolaus Correll, Christopher Cianci

Combining networks of static sensors with minimalist robotic swarms might enable a new generation of micromachinery equipped with sensor and actuator networks for inspection, maintenance, and repair. In such a scenario, limited capabilities of swarm member ...

2006

Threshold-based algorithms for power-aware load balancing in sensor networks

Alcherio Martinoli, Vlad Trifa, Christopher Cianci

2005