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Exact Obstacle Avoidance for Robots in Complex and Dynamic Environments Using Local Modulation

Robots outside of the fenced factories have to deal with continuously changing environment, this requires fast and flexible modes of control. Planning methods or complex learning models can find optimal paths in complex surroundings, but they are computati ...

EPFL2024

Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target

Aude Billard, Michael Bosongo Bombile

Bimanual grabbing and tossing of packages onto trays or conveyor belts remains a human activity in the industry. For robots, such a dynamic task requires coordination between two arms and fast adaptation abilities when the tossing target is moving and subj ...

Elsevier2023

Tales from a Robotic World. How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future

Dario Floreano, Nicola Nosengo

Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks ...

MIT Press2022

Reconfigurable and Latchable Shape‐Morphing Dielectric Elastomers Based on Local Stiffness Modulation

Herbert Shea, Bekir Aksoy

Programmable soft materials exhibiting dynamically reconfigurable, reversible, fast, and latchable shape transformation are key for applications ranging from wearable tactile actuators to deployable soft robots. Multimorph soft actuator sheets with high lo ...

2020

Learning from demonstration for semi-autonomous teleoperation

Sylvain Calinon

Teleoperation in domains such as deep-sea or space often requires the completion of a set of recurrent tasks. We present a framework that uses a probabilistic approach to learn from demonstration models of manipulation tasks. We show how such a framework c ...

2019

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

An Origami-Inspired Reconfigurable Suction Gripper for Picking Objects with Variable Shape and Size

Aude Billard, Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov

Gripper adaptability to handle objects of different shape and size brings high flexibility to manipulation. Gripping flat, round, or narrow objects poses challenges to even the most sophisticated robotic grippers. Among various gripper technologies, the va ...

2018

Dust generation in tokamaks: Overview of beryllium and tungsten dust characterisation in JET with the ITER-like wall

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, , , , , , , , ,

The LegoPress: A Rehabilitation, Performance Assessment and Training Device

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier, Maxime Olivier Jeanneret-Grosjean

In this paper we present the LegoPress, a simple and cost-effective robotic device intended to be used for leg-press movements in rehabilitation and training. Basic adjustments can be done on the sitting position so as to maximize comfort and adapt the pos ...

2014

The LegoPress: A Rehabilitation, Performance Assessment and Training Device Mechanical Design and Control

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Jeremy Olivier

In this paper we present the LegoPress, a simple and cost-effective robotic device intended to be used for leg-press movements in rehabilitation and training. Basic adjustments can be done on the sitting position so as to maximize comfort and adapt the pos ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Lessons Learned from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners Entering in the Home Ecosystem

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Julia Fink, Florian Christopher Vaussard

This article considers the suitability of current robots designed to assist humans in accomplishing their daily domestic tasks. With several million units sold worldwide, robotic vacuum cleaners are currently the figurehead in this field. As such, we will ...

Elsevier2014

Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction in Domestic Environments

Julia Fink

Domestic service robots are nowadays widely available on the consumer market. As such, robots have begun entering people’s homes and daily lives. However, it seems that the dissemination of domestic robots has not happened as easily and widespread as it wa ...

EPFL2014

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

Compatible Component Selection Under Uncertainty Via Extended Constraint Satisfaction Approach

Paul Xirouchakis, Duck Young Kim

This paper deals with compatible component selection problems, where the goal is to find combinations of components satisfying design constraints given a product structure, component alternatives available in design catalogue for each subsystem of the prod ...

Univ Cincinnati Industrial Engineering2012

Cy-mag3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Barthélémy Lüthi

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a novel miniature magnetic climbing robot for industrial inspection. The robot has high mobility with low complexity. ...

2011

TRIPILLAR: Miniature magnetic caterpillar climbing robot with plane transition ability

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

We present a miniature magnetic climbing robot with dimensions 96 x 46 x 64mm(3). With two degrees of freedom it is able to climb ferromagnetic surfaces and to make inner plane to plane transitions whatever their inclination is. This robot, named TRIPILLAR ...

Cambridge University Press2011

Miniature Magnetic Climbing Inspection Robots

Frédéric Rochat

Industrial plants have an abundance of complex and confined areas that require systematic inspection. Maintenance work is necessary to ensure reliability and safety. In many cases, due to either size limitations or high danger, access is impossible to huma ...

EPFL2011

Tremo: an inspection climbing inchworm based on magnetic switchable device

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

TREMO is a compact magnetic climbing inchworm with the capability to move in complex ferromagnetic environments. The robot fits inside a cylinder of 500 mm in height and 120 mm in diameter for an approximate weight of 800 g. It has a modular configuration ...

World Scientific2011

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explor ...

Springer2011

Cy-mag3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Barthélémy Lüthi

Cy-mag3D is a miniature climbing robot with advanced mobility and magnetic adhesion. It is very compact: a cylindrical shape with 28 mm of diameter and 62 mm of width. Its design is very simple: two wheels, hence two degrees of freedom, and an advanced mag ...

World Scientific2010