Publications associées à Roomba

Implicit Distance Functions: Learning and Applications in Robotics

In this thesis, we address the complex issue of collision avoidance in the joint space of robots. Avoiding collisions with both the robot's own body parts and obstacles in the environment is a critical constraint in motion planning and is crucial for ensur ...

EPFL2023

How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch

Raphael Zufferey

Flapping wings produce lift and thrust in bio-inspired aerial robots, leading to quiet, safe and efficient flight. However, to extend their application scope, these robots must perch and land, a feat widely demonstrated by birds. Despite recent progress, f ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Introducing Productive Engagement for Social Robots Supporting Learning

Jauwairia Nasir

We have all been one such student or seen such students who can maintain the 'good student' image while playing a video game under the table or those loyal backbenchers, seemingly always distracted, who then ace their exams. These intricacies of human beha ...

EPFL2022

New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

We introduce a vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator (V-SPA) that leverages a single, shared vacuum power supply and enables complex soft robotic systems with multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) and diverse functions. In addition to actuation, other utilit ...

2017

On Combining Multi-robot Coverage and Reciprocal Collision Avoidance

Alcherio Martinoli, Andreas Breitenmoser

Although robotic coverage and collision avoidance are active areas of robotics research, the avoidance of collision situations between robots has often been neglected in the context of multi-robot coverage tasks. In fact, for robots of physical size, colli ...

Springer Japan2016

Construction par procédé additif réalisée avec des robots mobiles autonomes hétérogènes

Philippe Rétornaz

This thesis lies at the crossroad of three research fields: heterogenous mobile collective robotics, autonomous construction with mobile robots and 3D printing. The main goal of this work is to implement and study an innovative way to interact and modify t ...

EPFL2015

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

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

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

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

Living With a Vacuum Cleaning Robot - A 6-month Ethnographic Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

Little is known about the usage, adoption process and long-term effects of domestic service robots in people’s homes. We investigated the usage, acceptance and process of adoption of a vacuum cleaning robot in nine households by means of a six month ethnog ...

Springer Netherlands2013

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

Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots

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

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

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

Cutting Down the Energy Consumed by Domestic Robots: Insights from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Florian Christopher Vaussard

The market of domestic service robots, and especially vacuum cleaners, has kept growing during the past decade. According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 1 million units were sold worldwide in 2010. Currently, there is no in-depth an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Jürg Markus Germann, Michael Dommer

To date, most modular robotic systems lack flexibility when increasing the number of modules due to their hard building blocks and rigid connection mechanisms. In order to improve adaptation to environmental changes, softness on the module level might be b ...

2012

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

Non-iterative data-driven controller tuning with guaranteed stability: Application to direct-drive pick-and-place robot

Dominique Bonvin, Alireza Karimi, Klaske van Heusden

This paper illustrates the practical application of non-iterative correlation- based tuning with guaranteed stability. In this method, a sufficient condition for closed-loop stability is defined as the H infinity-norm of a particular error function. This n ...

2010

An implementing framework for holonic manufacturing control with multiple robot-vision stations

Pascal Gilbert

The paper describes a holonic control architecture and implementing issues for agile job shop assembly with networked intelligent robots, based on the dynamic simulation of material processing and transportation. The holarchy was defined considering the PR ...

2009

Stabilization of a 2D-SpiderCrane Mechanism Using Damping Assignment Passivity-based Control

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt

Cable-operated manipulators, also termed cable robots, possess a number of unique properties which make them suitable for tasks involving high payloads, large workspaces, and interacting with dangerous materials. But the fact that cables can only pull the ...

2008