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Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

Francesco Mondada, Dario Floreano, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Daniel Burnier, Valentin Longchamp, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

2013

Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

Swarms of flying robots are promising in many applications due to rapid terrain coverage. However, there are numerous challenges in realising autonomous operation in unknown indoor environments. A new autonomous flight methodology is presented using relati ...

IEEE2012

3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

Swarms of indoor flying robots are promising for many applications, including searching tasks in collapsing buildings, or mobile surveillance and monitoring tasks in complex man-made structures. For tasks that employ several flying robots, spatial-coordina ...

Springer Verlag2012

Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots

James Roberts

Collective flying robots show great potential in many diverse indoor applications. Their added robustness, parallel operation and redundancy has clear advantages over a single flying robot. However, flying within cluttered and unprepared indoor environment ...

EPFL2011

2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

In the growing field of collective robotics, spatial co-ordination between robots is often critical and usually achieved via local relative positioning sensors. We believe that range and bearing sensing, based on infrared technology, has the potential to f ...

2009

Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts

Flying has an advantage when compared to ground based locomotion, as it simplifies the task of overcoming obstacles and allows for rapid coverage of an area while also providing a birds-eye-view of the environment. One of the key challenges that has preven ...

2008

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

This paper presents a Miniature Aerial Vehicle (MAV) capable of hands-off autonomous operation within indoor environments. Our prototype is a Quadrotor weighing approximately 600g, with a diameter of 550mm, which carries the necessary electronics for stabi ...

2007