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25 July 2018
Vol 3, Issue 20
Vol 3, Issue 20
Research Articles
- A highly sensitive, self-powered triboelectric auditory sensor for social robotics and hearing aids
A self-powered triboelectric auditory sensor is designed for human-robot interactions.
- BMI control of a third arm for multitasking
A brain-machine interface allowed participants to do a task with a robotic arm while performing a different task with their own arms.
- Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami
An origami inspired by insect wings addresses the challenges of achieving both high load bearing and resilience in folding structures.
- Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments
A flocking model that uses an evolutionary optimization framework is validated with a self-organized swarm of 30 drones.
- Autonomous task sequencing in a robot swarm
In a robot swarm, the ability to collectively sequence tasks can emerge from the interaction of reactive individual robots.
- Rotary-actuated folding polyhedrons for midwater investigation of delicate marine organisms
A robot end effector uses one rotary actuator to fold the net of a dodecahedron, completely surrounding delicate mid-water organisms.
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ONLINE COVER Crowd Control. Programming autonomous navigation and task completion for a single robot is already challenging. Coordinating a group of robots to work together adds considerable complexity. Vásárhelyi et al. developed a model to optimize the behavior of a rapidly moving flock of aerial robots in a confined environment and validated the results with 30 outdoor drones. Garattoni and Birattari created a ground robot system that was not preprogrammed with the correct sequence of tasks. Through collective action and communication, the robot swarm was able to "learn" and execute the tasks in the proper order. [CREDIT: ZSOLT BÉZSENYI]