Research

Distributed Robotic Systems

• The Distributed Robotics Garden
• Deployment and Optimization of Wireless ad-hoc Communication Networks
• Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots

Distributed Natural-Artificial Systems

• Cow Herding with Virtual Fences
• Aggregation and Collective Decisions in Mixed Animal-Robot Societies

Tracking and Monitoring of Distributed Systems

• CarTel, a distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics system
• SwisTrack - An open-source tracking tool for collective systems

Smart Materials and Soft-Robotics

• Chembots: combining chemistry, information theory and control to embed sensing, computation, and actuation in smart materials.