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A Soft Robot for Random Exploration of Terrestrial Environments

Dario Floreano, Jérémie Willemin, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Zappetti

A swarm of randomly moving miniature robots is an effective solution for the exploration of unknown terrains. However, the deployment of a swarm of miniature robots poses two challenges: finding an adequate locomotion strategy for fast exploration and obst ...

IEEE2018

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Carine Rognon, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu

Haptic guidance has been shown to improve performance in many fields as it can give additional information without overloading other sensory channels such as vision or audition. Our group is investigating new intuitive ways to interact with robots, and we ...

2018

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Dario Floreano, Auke Ijspeert, Carine Rognon, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness device, including a core including a low melting point alloy, an encapsulation surrounding the core, the encapsulation made of an elastic material and sealing the core, and a heating device arranged around the encapsulation, configured ...

2017

An origami-inspired cargo drone

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

Multicopters stand to revolutionize parcel delivery because of their capability to operate in areas with unsuitable road infrastructure and precisely maneuver in cluttered environments. However, current multicopters for delivery can be dangerous for people ...

2017

Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

Dario Floreano, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Stefano Mintchev

An aerial vehicle, configured to transport cargo, and including a propulsion system and a foldable cage is described. The foldable cage is substantially linear while in a folded configuration, and substantially circular while in a deployed configuration. M ...

2017

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Zappetti

In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells. We describe a novel strategy to realize tensegrity structures using planar manufacturing te ...

Springer2017

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Thibaut André Pierre Paschal, Stefano Mintchev

Bio-inspired underwater robots have several benefits compared to traditional underwater vehicles such as agility, efficiency, and an environmentally friendly body. However, the bio-inspired underwater robots developed so far have a single swimming mode, wh ...

2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz, Stefano Mintchev

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

Dario Floreano, Flavio Noca, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Stefano Mintchev, Matteo Di Luca

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness fiber made of silicone and low melting point alloys quickly becomes >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above 62 °C. It shows remarkable self-healing properties and can be clamped, knitted, and bonded, as shown ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Stefano Mintchev

An aerial vehicle including self-autonomous deployable arms and methods of deploying the vehicle are disclosed. The arms may include patterns located thereon that allow the arms to transition between wrapped, flat, and deployed configurations autonomously ...

2016

A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are rapidly becoming an essential tool in search and rescue missions because they can rapidly gather information from inaccessible or unsafe locations, thus increasing safety and rapidity of interventions. With this aim, we present a pocket s ...

Ieee2016

Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Morphology plays an important role in behavioral and locomotion strategies of living and artificial systems. There is biological evidence that adaptive morphological changes can not only extend dynamic performances by reducing tradeoffs during locomotion b ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

Dario Floreano, Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen, Stefano Mintchev

Flying robots are increasingly adopted in search and rescue missions because of their capability to quickly collect and stream information from remote and dangerous areas. To further enhance their use, we are investigating the development of a new class of ...

Ieee2016

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

Dario Floreano, Ludovic Daler, Stefano Mintchev

With the aim to extend the versatility and adaptability of robots in complex environments, a novel multi-modal flying and walking robot is presented. The robot consists of a flying wing with adaptive morphology that can perform both long distance flight an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

Dario Floreano, Louis Lazare Saint-Raymond, Ludovic Daler, Géraud L'Eplattenier, Stefano Mintchev

Aerial robots provide valuable support in several high-risk scenarios thanks to their capability to quickly fly to locations dangerous or even inaccessible to humans. In order to fully benefit from these features, aerial robots should be easy to transport ...

2015

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