8 accepted papers
Robotic manipulators hold significant untapped potential for manufacturing industries, particularly when deployed in multi-robot configurations that can enhance resource utilization, increase throughput, and reduce costs. However, industrial manipulators typically operate in isolated one-robot, one-
Robotic manipulators hold significant untapped potential for manufacturing industries, particularly when deployed in multi-robot configurations that can enhance resource utilization, increase throughput, and reduce costs. However, industrial manipulators typically operate in isolated one-robot, one-…
In industrial environments, predicting human actions is essential for ensuring safe and effective collaboration between humans and robots. This paper introduces a perception framework that enables mobile robots to understand and share information about human actions in a decentralized way. The frame
Rolling spherical robots have been studied in the past few years as an alternative to legged and wheeled robots in unstructured environments. These systems are of uttermost interest for space exploration: fast, robust to collision and able to handle various terrain topologies. This paper introduces…
The coordination of robot swarms - large decentralized teams of robots - generally relies on robust and efficient inter-robot communication. Maintaining communication between robots is particularly challenging in field deployments where robot motion, unstructured environments, limited computational
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have generally little capacity to carry payloads. Through collaboration, the UAVs can increase their joint payload capacity and carry more significant loads. For maximum flexibility to dynamic and unstructured environments and task demands, we propose a fully de…
In this paper, we demonstrate how behavioural structure, such as a finite state machine, can emerge in minimal robots without computation nor memory capabilities. As a case study we observe the ability of a group of non-holonomic robots to form robust, self-healing circle formations in a decentraliz…
One of the safest and most reliable strategies for vehicle's collision avoidance is embedded control at low level to guarantee safe motion in all situations using on-board sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight collision avoidance strategy that can be implemented as a low level motio…