Robotics at Ecole des Mines de Douai

• Team
• Open Positions
• Results: softwares, papers and talks
  • Videos of our work on Robotic exploration
• Robots we use for experiments

Results: softwares, papers and talks

• Distributed constraint reasoning applied to multi-robot exploration. A. Doniec, N. Bouraqadi, M. Defoort, V.T. Le and S. Stinckwich. Technical Report 20090601, Ecole des Mines, Douai, France, June 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Video (AVI, MOV, MP4)
• MADCAR-AGENT : un modèle pour le développement d’agents auto-adaptables. G. Grondin, N. Bouraqadi and L. Vercouter. Journées Francophones des Systèmes Multi-Agents. Lyon, France. 19-21 october 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
• Connectivity Awareness in Networked Robotic Systems. V.T. Le, N. Bouraqadi, S. Stinckwich, V Moraru. IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies. a Nang City, Vietnam. 14-16 july 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
• A Decentralized Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Multi-Robots Navigation. M. Defoort, A. Doniec and N. Bouraqadi. 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). Milan, Italy. 2-5 july 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF) - Video.
• Making Networked Robot Connectivity-Aware. V.T. Le, N. Bouraqadi, S. Stinckwich, V Moraru, A. Doniec. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009). Kobe Japan. 12-17 May 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
• Flocking-Based Multi-Robot Simulation. N. Bouraqadi and A. Doniec. 4th national conference on "Control Architecture for Robots" (CAR). Toulouse, France. 23-24 april 2009.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
  • Videos:
    • 1-frontiereExplorationMonoRobot.mov
    • 2-frontiereExplorationMultiRobot.mov
    • 3-flocking.mov
• Connectivity Awareness in Networked Robotic Systems. V.T. Le, N. Bouraqadi, S. Stinckwich, V. Moraru. Technical Report 20081001. Ecole des Mines de Douai. October 2008.
  • Paper (PDF)
• Towards an Adaptive Robot Control Architecture. Noury Bouraqadi and Serge Stinckwich. Second National Workshop on “Control Architectures of Robots: from models to execution on distributed control architectures”. Paris, France. May 31 and June 1st, 2007.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
• Towards A Generic Anticipatory Agent Architecture for Mobile Robots. Noury Bouraqadi and Serge Stinckwich. In proceedings of The Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS 2007). Angers, France. May 2007.
  • Paper (PDF) - Slides (PDF)
• More papers

Robots we use for experiments

• WifiBot: 4 small wheeled robots with on-board IP camera
  • We have a fleet of 4 WifiBots
  • WifiBotST: a framework for building control architecture for wifibot robots. Allows also building simulations.
  • WifiBot Pictures and Videos
• Nao: a humanoid robot
  • Nao Pictures and Videos
• Robulab10: A two medium size wheeled robots
  • Robulab10 Pictures and Videos