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= Team =
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* François Michaud
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* Patrice Masson
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* Jean-François Laplante
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* Serge Caron
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* Dominic Létourneau
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* Tamie Salter
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*[[Media:RoballTeaserLowRes.avi|Roball Teaser (low res)]]
 
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Revision as of 15:25, 10 November 2008

Robot sphérique / Spherical Robot


Considering making a robot that can move in a home environment, filled with all kinds of obstacles, requires particular locomotion capabilities. A mobile robotic toy for toddlers would have to move around other toys and objects, and be able to sustain rough interplay situations. Encapsulating the robot inside a sphere and using this sphere to make the robot move around in the environment is one solution. The robot, being spherical, can navigate smoothly through obstacles, and create simple and appealing interactions with toddlers. The encapsulating shell of the robot helps protect its fragile electronics. Roball's second prototype was specifically developed to be a toy and used to study interactions between a robot and toddlers using quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques. Observations confirm that Roball's physical structure and locomotion dynamics generate interest and various interplay situations influenced by environmental settings and the child's personality. Roball is currently being used to see how child interaction can be perceived directly from onboard navigation sensors.


Voir aussi / See also: HRI


Team

  • François Michaud
  • Patrice Masson
  • Jean-François Laplante
  • Serge Caron
  • Dominic Létourneau
  • Tamie Salter

Video

Publications

  1. Laplante, J.-F., Masson, P., Michaud, F. (2007) ”Analytical longitudinal and lateral models of a spherical rolling robot,” Technical Report, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. (pdf)
  2. Laplante, J.-F. (2004), "Effet de la dynamique d'un robot sphéraique et de son effet sur l'attention et la mobilité des jeunes enfants", Mémoire de maîtrise, Département de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, août. (pdf)
  3. Michaud, F., Caron, S. (2002), "Roball, the rolling robot", Autonomous Robots, 12(2): 211-222. (pdf)
  4. Michaud, F., de Lafontaine, J., Caron, S. (2001), "A spherical robot for planetary exploration", Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), Canadian Space Agency, St-Hubert Québec. (pdf)
  5. Roball - the rolling robot. F. Michaud, S. Caron. U.S. Patent #6,227,933, May 8, 2001.
  6. Michaud, F., Caron, S. (2000), "Roball - An autonomous toy-rolling robot", Proceedings Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE), CMU Robotics Institute and AAAI, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 127-134. (pdf)
  7. Michaud, F., Caron, S. (2000), "An autonomous toy-rolling robot", Proceedings PRECARN-IRIS International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), Montréal Québec, 114-119. (pdf)