Publications de Florian Christopher Vaussard

A Holistic Approach to Energy Harvesting for Indoor Robots : Theoretical Framework and Experimental Validations

Service robotics is a fast expanding market. Inside households, domestic robots can now accomplish numerous tasks, such as floor cleaning, surveillance, or remote presence. Their sales have considerably increased over the past years. Whereas 1.05 million d ...

EPFL2015

Lessons Learned from Robotic Vacuum Cleaners Entering in the Home Ecosystem

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

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

Which Robot Behavior Can Motivate Children to Tidy up Their Toys? Design and Evaluation of "Ranger"

Francesco Mondada, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Pierre Dillenbourg, Philippe Rétornaz, Alain Berthoud, Julia Fink, Séverin Lemaignan

We present the design approach and evaluation of our proto- type called “Ranger”. Ranger is a robotic toy box that aims to motivate young children to tidy up their room. We evalu- ated Ranger in 14 families with 31 children (2-10 years) using the Wizard-of ...

2014

The Autonomous Photovoltaic MarXbot

Francesco Mondada, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, Martin Olivier Liniger

Domestic service robots are currently powered by the mains electricity. The growing multiplication of such devices negatively impacts our environment. In this study, we show the feasibility of harvesting energy from natural light in an indoor environment. ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

IEEE2013

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

Towards Long-Term Collective Experiments

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, François Rey, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

It is often challenging to manage the battery supply when dealing with a fleet of mobile robots during long experiments. If one uses classical recharge stations, then agents are immobilized during the whole recharge process. In this study, we present a nov ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

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

Francesco Mondada, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

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

Towards Autonomous Energy-Wise RObjects

Francesco Mondada, Alcherio Martinoli, Michael Bonani, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz

In this article, the RObject concept is first introduced. This is followed by a survey of applicable energy scavenging technologies. Energy is a key issue for the large scale deployment of robotics in daily life, as recharging the batteries places a consid ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

The MarXbot, a Miniature Mobile Robot Opening new Perspectives for the Collective-robotic Research

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Stéphane Magnenat, Michael Bonani, Daniel Burnier, Valentin Longchamp, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Philippe Rétornaz, Gilles Roulet

Collective and swarm robotics explores scenarios involving many robots running at the same time. A good platform for collective-robotic experiments should provide certain features among others: it should have a large battery life, it should be able to perc ...

IEEE Press2010