This article presents a design process of a single-wheel robot which consists of building a theoretical model, designing a mechanical structure, simulating the design, building a prototype and testing it. It describes the control strategy for this vehicle, developed during the simulation process, and how it works for a ready built prototype. It mainly focuses on the self-stabilisation problem e...

The paper is aimed to design and implement a remote sensing and monitoring system running on mobile robot with the capability of transmitting the data wirelessly to operating station. A simple mobile robot prototype with on-board sensors has been designed and implemented to scan and monitor several variables in the surrounding environment. The system enables the user operating from base station...

Paramagnetic beads have the superior advantages of easy separation and resuspension by controlling the magnetic filed. Previously, we have developed Magtration technology to automate paramagnetic bead handling and have built several automated instruments that handle 1-12 samples simultaneously. To achieve more high-throughput sample processing, two types of a 96-arrayed Integrated Magtration Un...

The design of a multipurpose sample cell holder for the high-throughput (HT) beamline B21 is presented. device compatible with robot bioSAXS changer currently installed on BM29, ESRF, and P12 Petra IV synchrotrons. This work presents an approach that uses 3D-printing to make hardware alterations which can expand versatility HT beamlines at low cost.

A smart multipurpose human assistance robotic dog is designed to guide the visually impaired and elderly people to some predefined destination avoiding obstacles and traffic. It is also designed to act as an advanced multipurpose human assistance and service robot that is able recognize the words spoken by the user, talk to them and take action according to the spoken voice command. Voice comma...

This paper presents a modular control architecture that enables a mobile manipulator to compliantly perform manipulation tasks in partially-known everyday human environments. An impedance velocity/force controller that allows the execution of a great variety of tasks under the Task Frame Formalism (TFF) is implemented. Tasks are represented as a net of basic abilities which are performed by the...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) response robots are special multipurpose devices, capable of moving and performing various tasks in water, autonomously, or with human teleoperation. Capability assessment of such devices is hard and complex work. This paper describes our work in AUV Response Robot testing from two aspects: First, additional testing methods are proposed for AUV capability ass...

This paper presents the ”Mixed Societies of Robots and Vertebrates” project that is carried out by the Mobile Robotics group at EPFL, Switzerland in collaboration with the Unité d’Ecologie Sociale at ULB, Belgium. The idea of the project is to study behavior in young chicks of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) by using mobile robots able to interact with animals and accepted as me...