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TREEBOT: Tree Recovering Renewable Energy Robot

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2013)

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The authors aim at designing, prototyping and validating a new generation of ICT hardware and software technologies bio-inspired from trees, called TREEBOT, endowed with distributed sensing, alternators and intelligence for tasks of recovering renewable energy. TREEBOT takes inspiration from, and aim at reproducing, the flexibility, resistance and adaptation capabilities of trees. The tree robot will be composed of a network of sensorized and actuated roots, branches and leaves, displaying rich sensing and coordination capabilities as well as energy-efficient actuation and high sustainability, typical of the trees. Each tree branch and leave will consist of a robotic artefact that comprises sensors, actuators, alternators, control units, and by an elongation zone that mechanically connects the apex and the trunk of the robot.

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  1. Creative and Visionary Design lab, Humanot s.r.l., Prato, Italy

    Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo

  2. PMAR lab, Department of Applied Mechanics and Machine Design, Scuola Politecnica, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

    Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo & Rezia Molfino

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  1. Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo
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Correspondence to Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo .

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Ashutosh Natraj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Stephen Cameron

  3. University of Bristol and the West of En, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Chris Melhuish

  4. Imperial College London Department of Electrical and Electronic, London, United Kingdom

    Mark Witkowski

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Muscolo, G.G., Molfino, R. (2014). TREEBOT: Tree Recovering Renewable Energy Robot. In: Natraj, A., Cameron, S., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_3

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