Publications by Felix Stephan Schill

Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill

We present a new Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) system for cooperative environmental sensing. The AUV was specifically developed as a platform for distributed, cooperative sensing in lakes and coastal areas. In this paper we describe the prerequisite ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Easily Deployable Underwater Acoustic Navigation System for Multi-Vehicle Environmental Sampling Applications

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Water as a medium poses a number of challenges for robots, limiting the progress of research in underwater robotics vis-a-vis ground or aerial robotics. The primary challenges are satellite based positioning and radio communication being unusable due to hi ...

IEEE2019

A Flexible Navigation Support System for a Team of Underwater Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

2019

Autonomous Feature Tracing and Adaptive Sampling in Real-World Underwater Environments

Alcherio Martinoli, Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

Applications of robots for gathering data in underwater environments has been limited due to the challenges posed by the medium. We have developed a miniature, agile, easy to carry and deploy Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) equipped with a suite of sen ...

IEEE2018

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Semi- or fully-autonomous Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) are currently studied and developed by public and private organizations as a solution for traffic congestion. While optimal collision-free navigation algorithms have been proposed for autonomous rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

For micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) involved in search and rescue missions, the ability to locate the source of a distress sound signal is significantly important and allows fast localization of victims and rescuers during nighttime, through foliage and in du ...

John Wiley & Sons2017

Underwater propelling device for underwater vehicle

Alexander Bahr, Felix Stephan Schill

The present invention relates to an underwater propelling device (10) i a stator (20) comprising circumferential arrayed coils (35) and being adapted to generate a controlled electromagnetic field along an axial direction, a shaftless propellant rotor (30) ...

2016

Comparative Study of Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation of VTOL Aerial Robots

Felix Stephan Schill

Force feedback is a powerful sensory cue that can provide a user, remotely teleoperating a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aerial robotic vehicle, with an enhanced perception of the robot motion and interaction with the local environment. The accepted ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Fluid-Mediated Stochastic Self-Assembly at Centimetric and Sub-Millimetric Scales: Design, Modeling, and Control

Alcherio Martinoli, Grégory Mermoud, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Bahar Haghighat

Stochastic self-assembly provides promising means for building micro-/nano-structures with a variety of properties and functionalities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the control and modeling of the process in engineered self-assembling systems co ...

2016

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

In a team of autonomous drones, individual knowledge about the relative location of teammates is essential. Existing relative positioning solutions for teams of small drones mostly rely on external systems such as motion tracking cameras or GPS satellites ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Automated Real-Time Control of Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microparticles

Alcherio Martinoli, Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Helmut Knapp

Self-assembly is a key coordination mechanism for large multi-unit systems and a powerful bottom-up technology for micro/nanofabrication. Controlled self-assembly and dynamic reconfiguration of large ensembles of microscopic particles can effectively bridg ...

2014

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

Localization is one of the key challenges that needs to be considered beforehand to design truly autonomous MAV teams. In this paper, we present a cooperative method to address the localization problem for a team of MAVs, where individuals obtain their pos ...

2014

Representation of Vehicle Dynamics in Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robots

Felix Stephan Schill

This paper considers the question providing effective feedback of vehicle dynamic forces to a pilot in haptic teleoperation of aerial robots. We claim that the usual state-of-the-art haptic interface, based on research motivated by robotic manipulator slav ...

2013

A scalable electro-magnetic communication system for underwater swarms

Felix Stephan Schill

Scalable, reliable underwater communication is still a major challenge limiting the deployment of large-scale cooperative underwater systems, such as swarms of AUVs, which generally rely on frequent updates from surrounding units for control and mission ob ...

IFAC2012

Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Meysam Basiri, Felix Stephan Schill

In search and rescue missions, Micro Air Vehicles (MAV's) can assist rescuers to faster locate victims inside a large search area and to coordinate their efforts. Acoustic signals play an important role in outdoor rescue operations. Emergency whistles, as ...

2012