Felix Schill

EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL
GR A2 445
(Building GR)
Station 2
CH
-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (21) 693 3214
Fax: +41 (21) 693 1280
felix.schill[at]epfl.ch

Curriculum

Diploma 2003 (Universität Karlsruhe); Ph.D. 2008 (PhD Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra)

2016-onwards Co-founder and Director of Hydromea S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland.
2011-2016 Postdoctoral Scholar (STI and ENAC, EPFL).
2008-2011 Research Fellow at The Australian National University, Canberra.
2003-2007 PhD student at RSISE, the Australian National University.

Research Interest

Swarm robotics and distributed robotic systems. Distributed underwater communication, TDMA networking. Underwater and aerial robots.

Current project

Distributed 3D Environmental Sensing with a Team of Underwater Robots

Main Publications

2019

A Flexible Navigation Support System for a Team of Underwater Robots

A. A. Quraishi; A. Bahr; F. S. Schill; A. Martinoli 

2019-08-22. IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, Audust 22-23, 2019. p. 70-75. DOI : 10.1109/MRS.2019.8901064.

Easily Deployable Underwater Acoustic Navigation System for Multi-Vehicle Environmental Sampling Applications

A. A. Quraishi; A. Bahr; F. S. Schill; A. Martinoli 

2019-05-20. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Montreal, Canada, May 20-24, 2019. p. 3464-3470. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793699.

Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring

F. S. Schill; A. Bahr; A. Martinoli 

2019. 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), London, ENGLAND, November 7-9, 2016. p. 679-693. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-73008-0_47.

2018

Autonomous Feature Tracing and Adaptive Sampling in Real-World Underwater Environments

A. A. Quraishi; A. Bahr; F. S. Schill; A. Martinoli 

2018-05-20. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, 21-25 May 2018. p. 5699-5704. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460627.

2017

Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles

M. Basiri; F. Schill; P. Lima; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2017. Vol. 35, num. 2, p. 187-201. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21733.

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

N. Dousse; G. H. M. Heitz; F. S. Schill; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358-365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.

2016

Underwater propelling device for underwater vehicle

F. Schill; A. Bahr 

ES2733339; CN107207083; EP3218259; HK1243392; CN107207083; EP3218259; WO2016075631; US9227709.

2016.

Comparative Study of Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation of VTOL Aerial Robots

X. Hou; R. Mahony; F. Schill 

Ieee Transactions On Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems. 2016. Vol. 46, num. 10, p. 1352-1363. DOI : 10.1109/Tsmc.2015.2503396.

Fluid-Mediated Stochastic Self-Assembly at Centimetric and Sub-Millimetric Scales: Design, Modeling, and Control

B. Haghighat; M. Mastrangeli; G. Mermoud; F. S. Schill; A. Martinoli 

Micromachines. 2016. Vol. 7, num. 8 (Special Issue on “Building by Self-Assembly”), p. 138. DOI : 10.3390/mi7080138.

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; P. Lima; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 820-827. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833.

2014

Automated Real-Time Control of Fluidic Self-Assembly of Microparticles

M. Mastrangeli; F. S. Schill; J. Goldowsky; H. Knapp; J. Brugger et al. 

2014. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong (China), May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 5860-5865. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907721.

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; D. Floreano; P. Lima 

2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 4729-4734. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907551.

2013

Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems

M. Basiri; F. Schill; D. Floreano; P. Lima 

2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.

Representation of Vehicle Dynamics in Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robots

X. Hou; R. Mahony; F. S. Schill 

2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, May 6-10, 2013. p. 1485-1491. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630767.

2012

A scalable electro-magnetic communication system for underwater swarms

F. S. Schill; U. R. Zimmer 

2012. 9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC), Arenzano (GE), Italy, September 19-21, 2012. p. 97-102. DOI : 10.3182/20120919-3-IT-2046.00017.

Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles

M. Basiri; F. S. Schill; P. Lima U.; D. Floreano 

2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.. p. 4737-4742. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608.

2011

myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems

F. M. Nieuwenhuizen; M. Jump; M. White; P. Perfect; P. Padfield et al. 

2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.

myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.

M. Jump; P. Perfect; G. D. Padfield; M. D. White; D. Floreano et al. 

2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.

Aerial SLAM with a Single Camera using Visual Expectation

M. J. Milford; F. S. Schill; P. Corke; R. Mahony 

2011. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, May 9-13, 2011. p. 2506-2512. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980329.

Estimating Ego-Motion in Panoramic Image Sequences with Inertial Measurements

F. S. Schill; R. Mahony; P. Corke 

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics; Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. p. 87-101.

myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems

M. Jump; P. Padfield; M. White; D. Floreano; P. Fua et al. 

2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.

2007

Distributed Communication in Swarms of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

F. S. Schill / U. R. Zimmer (Dir.)  

The Australian National University, 2007.