2025
Journal Articles
Edible Pneumatic Battery for Sustained and Repeated Robot Actuation
Advanced Science. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202509350.Miniature Multihole Airflow Sensor for Lightweight Aircraft Over Wide Speed and Angular Range
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 10, p. 10722 – 10728. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2025.3604704.In Memoriam: Prof. Reymond Clavel [RAM Society News]
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2025. Vol. 32, num. 3, p. 213 – 214. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2025.3586085.Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures
Advanced Robotics Research. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adrr.202500050.Edible aquatic robots with Marangoni propulsion
Nature Communications. 2025. Vol. 16. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-59559-8.First-Person View Interfaces for Teleoperation of Aerial Swarms
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 5, p. 4476 – 4483. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2025.3553062.Edible Jumpers Powered by Shell Snapping
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 8, p. 2401230. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202401230.Instant variable stiffness in cardiovascular catheters based on fiber jamming
Science Advances. 2025. Vol. 11, num. 6. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.adn1207.Multi-Aerial Robotic System for Power Line Inspection and Maintenance: Comparative Analysis from the AERIAL-CORE Final Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. 2025. p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/tfr.2025.3586991.Evolutionary Codesign and Fabrication of Tensegrity Joints with Integrated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202500310.Conference Papers
Tensegrity-based Robot Leg Design with Variable Stiffness
2025. 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-04-23 – 2025-04-27.Rapid and Continuous Stiffness Control of Fiber-Jamming Catheters for Cardiac Ablation
2025. 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-04-23 – 2025-04-27.Theses
Avian-inspired designs for multi-modal robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Patents
Variable stiffness catheter for surgical applications, system for remote magnetic navigation surgical approach and method for manufacturing said catheter
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2025.2024
Journal Articles
Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs
Nature. 2024. Vol. 636, p. 86 – 91. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-08228-9.A twist of the tail in turning maneuvers of a bird-inspired feathered drone
Science Robotics. 2024. Vol. 9, num. 96. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ado3890.Adaptive morphing of wing and tail for stable, resilient, and energy-efficient flight of avian-inspired drones
npj Robotics. 2024. Vol. 2, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44182-024-00015-y.Data-Driven Personalization of Body-Machine Interfaces to Control Diverse Robot Types
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 2024. Vol. 55, num. 1, p. 353 – 365. DOI : 10.1109/TSMC.2024.3478113.The rise of transient robotics
Device. 2024. Vol. 2, num. 10. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100554.Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones
Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-52369-4.Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Nature. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07755-9.High-Speed Motion Planning for Aerial Swarms in Unknown and Cluttered Environments
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2024. Vol. 40, p. 3642 – 3656. DOI : 10.1109/tro.2024.3429193.Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot
Communications Engineering. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-024-00241-0.Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Science. 2024. Vol. 11, num. 12, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202470069.Towards edible robots and robotic food
Nature Reviews Materials. 2024. p. online. DOI : 10.1038/s41578-024-00688-9.A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing
Advanced Sensor Research. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 5, p. 2300150. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300150.Conference Papers
Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones
2024. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 13th – 17th, 2024. p. 8679 – 8685. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611506.Theses
Accurate and agile flight with winged drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Multifunctional Wings and Appendages for Flight, Perching, and Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Patents
Method for wind harvesting and wind rejection in flying drones
WO2024069210.
2024.2023
Journal Articles
Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2023. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 1856 – 1866. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2023. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 035005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/acc223.A Soft Gripper with Granular Jamming and Electroadhesive Properties
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 6, p. 2200409. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200409.Wind Defiant Morphing Drones
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 2200297. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200297.An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot
Advanced Sensor Research. 2023. num. 2300092, p. 9. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300092.The evolution of behavioral cues and signaling in displaced communication
PLoS Computational Biology. 2023. Vol. 19, num. 3, p. e1010487. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010487.Conference Papers
Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient
2023. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) “Embracing the Future: Making Robots for Humans”, London, May 29-June 2, 2023. p. 1349 – 1356. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160581.Design and manufacture of edible microfluidic logic gates
2023. 2023 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Singapore, April 3-7, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122039.Theses
Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Resilient drones with morphing wings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Patents
A variable stiffness magnetic catheter made of a conductive shape memory polymer for minimally invasive surgery
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2023.2022
Journal Articles
Robotic Avian Wing Explains Aerodynamic Advantages of Wing Folding and Stroke Tilting in Flapping Flight
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200148.Sharp turning maneuvers with avian-inspired wing and tail morphing
Communications Engineering. 2022. p. 10.1038/s44172 – 022. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-022-00035-2.What we look for at Science Robotics
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 71, p. eade5834. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ade5834.Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size
IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12150 – 12157. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3208716.Elastic-Actuation Mechanism for Repetitive Hopping Based on Power Modulation and Cyclic Trajectory Generation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2022. Vol. 39, num. 1, p. 558 – 571. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2022.3189249.Machine-Learning Based Monitoring of Cognitive Workload in Rescue Missions with Drones
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2022. p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3186625.Dual Stiffness Tensegrity Platform for Resilient Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. p. 2200025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200025.Enhancement of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive by CO2 Laser Treatment
Advanced Engineering Materials. 2022. num. 2200355. DOI : 10.1002/adem.202200355.On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3158758.A Variable Stiffness Magnetic Catheter Made of a Conductive Phase-Change Polymer for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Functional Materials. 2022. p. 1 – 11, 2107662. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202107662.How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022. p. 1 – 9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 65, p. eabg5561. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abg5561.Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73 – 80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12054 – 12061. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3122107.Autonomous Detection and Deterrence of Pigeons on Buildings by Drones
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745 – 1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.Conference Papers
Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots
2022. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 9628 – 9634. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982098.A Lightweight Device for Energy Harvesting from Power Lines with a Fixed-Wing UAV
2022. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2022), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 21-24, 2022. p. 86 – 93. DOI : 10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836070.Unleashing Soft Modular Robots by means of a Bio-inspired Connection Strategy
2022. 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-8, 2022. p. 553 – 558. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.9762069.Slip Anticipation for Grasping Deformable Objects Using a Soft Force Sensor
2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 10003 – 10008. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981174.Accurate Vision-based Flight with Fixed-Wing Drones
2022. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981921.Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. p. 1802 – 1809. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981956.Books
Tales from a Robotic World. How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.Theses
Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.2021
Journal Articles
Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 223 – 230. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3123378.Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 8341 – 8348. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3102324.Smart Textiles that Teach: Fabric‐Based Haptic Device Improves the Rate of Motor Learning
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100043. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100043.Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 6805 – 6812. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3096159.Stretchable and Soft Electroadhesion Using Liquid‐Metal Subsurface Microelectrodes
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2021. p. 2100263. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202100263.Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots
PLOS One. 2021. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. e0252202. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252202.Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments
Nature Machine Intelligence. 2021. Vol. 3, p. 545 – 554. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-021-00341-y.VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1343 – 1350. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3058073.Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 2954 – 2961. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3062298.Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms With a Vision-Based Headset
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1455 – 1462. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3051565.From individual robots to robot societies
Science Robotics. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 56, p. eabk2787. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abk2787.Conference Papers
Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics
2021. 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), Online, August 8-12, 2021. p. 115 – 121. DOI : 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900570.The Impact of Virtual Reality and Viewpoints in Body Motion Based Drone Teleoperation
2021. IEEE VR 2021, Lisbon, Portugal, March 27 – April 3, 2021. p. 511 – 518. DOI : 10.1109/VR50410.2021.00075.Seeking Quality Diversity in Evolutionary Co-design of Morphology and Control of Soft Tensegrity Modular Robots
2021. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), Lille, France (virtual conference), July 10-14, 2021. DOI : 10.1145/3449639.3459311.Theses
Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.2020
Journal Articles
Design Optimization of Soft Robots
Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2020. Vol. 27, num. 4, p. 10 – 11. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2020.3028658.Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities
Science Robotics. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 47, p. eabc2897. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abc2897.Lighter and Stronger: Cofabricated Electrodes and Variable Stiffness Elements in Dielectric Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020. Vol. 2, num. 10, p. 1 – 8, 2000069. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202000069.A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4233 – 4240. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993757.Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4297 – 4304. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993768.Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine
Smart Materials and Structures. 2020. Vol. 29, num. 7, p. 075013. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/ab87e0.Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures
Soft Robotics. 2020. Vol. 7, num. 3, p. 362 – 369. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2019.0091.Conference Papers
UWB-based system for UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments: Characterization and Dataset
2020. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA (but held online), October 25-29, 2020. p. 4521 – 4528. DOI : 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341042.Hand-worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation
2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 10212 – 10218. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196664.Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Fish Robot
2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1-5 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 2887 – 2892. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196675.Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks
2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), virtual conference (originally Paris, France), 1-5 June 2020 (originally 31 May – 4 Jun). p. 286 – 292. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196869.Theses
Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.Patents
Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump
WO2020233791.
2020.2019
Journal Articles
Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2950816.Haptic feedback perception and learning with cable-driven guidance in exosuit teleoperation of a simulated drone
IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 375 – 385. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2019.2925612.A Magnetic Continuum Device with Variable Stiffness for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 6, p. 1900086. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.201900086.Stretchable pumps for soft machines
Nature. 2019. Vol. 572, p. 516 – 519. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-019-1479-6.Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4523 – 4530. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2935377.Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications
IEEE Communications Letters. 2019. Vol. 23, num. 11, p. 1962 – 1966. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2934684.The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics
Journal of Field Robotics. 2019. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 1171 – 1191. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21887.The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments
Scientific Reports. 2019. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 7707. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-44187-2.The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 209 – 216. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885575.Inquiry-Based Learning with RoboGen: An Open-Source Software and Hardware Platform for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 356 – 369. DOI : 10.1109/TLT.2018.2833111.Conference Papers
Perception of a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device to Render the Sensation of Flight
2019. IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Tokyo, JAPAN, Jul 09-12, 2019. p. 61 – 66. DOI : 10.1109/WHC.2019.8816126.Embodied Flight with a Drone
2019. 2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00070.Theses
Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Patents
STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS
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2019.Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system
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2019.2018
Journal Articles
All‐Fabric Wearable Electroadhesive Clutch
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1800313. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201800313.Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Soft Robotics. 2018. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 466 – 474. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2017.0062.Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays
Scientific Reports. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2018. p. 201718648. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2362 – 2369. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 20, p. eaau0275. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.Soft Robotic Grippers
Advanced Materials. 2018. Vol. 30, num. 29, p. 1707035. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201707035.Ultra-stretchable strain sensors using carbon black-filled elastomer composites and comparison of capacitive versus resistive sensors
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 3, p. 1700284. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201700284.Conference Papers
Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor
2018. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems, PyeongChang, GangWon Province, Korea, October 17-20, 2018. p. 291 – 296.A Soft Robot for Random Exploration of Terrestrial Environments
2018. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018. p. 7492 – 7497. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460667.Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation
2018. Eurohaptics 2018, Pisa, Italy, June 13-16 2018. p. 404 – 415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor
2018. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), SOUTH KOREA, Oct 17-20, 2018. p. 291 – 296.A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology
2018. 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 11-12, 2018.Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation
2018. 11th International Conference on Haptics – Science, Technology, and Applications (EuroHaptics), Pisa, ITALY, Jun 13-16, 2018. p. 404 – 415. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_35.Working Papers
Tesla’s problem: overestimating automation, underestimating humans
2018
Patents
Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device
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2018.2017
Journal Articles
Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits
Nature Communications. 2017. Vol. 8, p. 14494. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms14494.Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones
Interface Focus. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 20160092. DOI : 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0092.Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358 – 365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.Disentangling constraints using viability evolution principles in integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies
Scientific Reports. 2017. Vol. 7, p. 235. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-00266-w.Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248 – 1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles
Journal of Field Robotics. 2017. Vol. 35, num. 2, p. 187 – 201. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21733.Conference Papers
A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202155.Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, September 24–28. p. 6221 – 6226. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206525.One Constraint at a Time: Using Viability Principles in Integrative Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies
2017. 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, San Francisco, CA, FEB 15-19, 2014. p. 289A – 289A. DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.1567.An origami-inspired cargo drone
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855 – 6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. p. 4197 – 4202. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206281.Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots
2017. Living Machines 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA, July 25-28, 2017. p. 497 – 508. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_42.Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology
2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203 – 1. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.Theses
Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.Patents
Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping
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2017.Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability
PL3439955; EP3439955; US10252795; EP3439955; SG11201808868Q; US2017291697; WO2017175199.
2017.Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same
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2017.2016
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Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 2, p. 231 – 238. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2016. Vol. 23, num. 3, p. 42 – 54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2016.2580593.A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments
Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, p. 789 – 803. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9494-4.On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 820 – 827. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833.Soft compliant gripper for safe manipulation of extremely fragile objects
SPIE Newsroom. 2016. DOI : 10.1117/2.1201603.006409.Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones
Artificial Life And Robotics. 2016. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 308 – 316. DOI : 10.1007/s10015-016-0302-9.Memetic Viability Evolution for Constrained Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2016. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 125 – 144. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2015.2428292.Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690 – 1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.Conference Papers
A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings
2016. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016. p. 1576 – 1581. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759255.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2016. 15th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Flagstaff, AZ, DEC 09-12, 2011. p. 21 – 39. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-29363-9_2.Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1061 – 1064. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931675.Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
2016. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14. p. 4957 – 4962. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759728.The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 821 – 828. DOI : 10.1145/2908812.2908886.A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance
2016. International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2016), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-27th, 2016. p. 396 – 401. DOI : 10.1109/SSRR.2016.7784333.Theses
Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Book Chapters
Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 2035 – 2068.Patents
Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle
US9446845; WO2016066790; US2016122016.
2016.2015
Journal Articles
A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997 – 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.An artificial elementary eye with optic flow detection and compositional properties
Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2015. Vol. 12, p. 20150414. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2015.0414.Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones
Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460 – 466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285 – 294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 026002. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/026002.Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns
Plos Computational Biology. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. e1004577. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577.Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 016005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016005.Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila
Nature. 2015. Vol. 519, p. 233 – 236. DOI : 10.1038/nature14024.Conference Papers
Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor
2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 26-30, 2015. p. 2190 – 2195. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139488.Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones
2015. SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto, Japon, October 28-30, 2015.DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg
2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits
2015. GECCO ’15, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015. p. 743 – 744. DOI : 10.1145/2739482.2764894.Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy
2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097 – 1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage
2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669 – 674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.Theses
Viability evolutionary algorithms and applications to neuroscience and biology
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.2014
Journal Articles
A Collision Resilient Flying Robot
Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469 – 509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.Takashi Gomi and the evolution of embodied AI
Adaptive Behavior. 2014. p. 1059712314553807. DOI : 10.1177/1059712314553807.Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition
PLOS One. 2014. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. e86831. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0086831.Soft Cells for Programmable Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules
Soft Robotics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 4, p. 239 – 245. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2014.0005.Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye
Sensors. 2014. Vol. 14, num. 11, p. 21702 – 21721. DOI : 10.3390/s141121702.Selection methods regulate evolution of cooperation in digital evolution
Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2014. Vol. 11, num. 90, p. 20130743. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2013.0743.Conference Papers
Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots
2014. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 14-18, 2014. p. 3933 – 3938. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943115.Programmable Self-assembly with Chained Soft Cells: An Algorithm to Fold into 2-D Shapes
2014. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-26, 2014. p. 220 – 229. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_21.Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation
2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1 – 3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines
2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 465 – 472. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch076.RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution
2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 136 – 137. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch022.Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles
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.Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES
2014. 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. p. 272 – 281. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_27.Reviews
Robotics and Neuroscience
Current Biology. 2014. Vol. 24, p. R910 – R920. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.058.Theses
Soft Cells for Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.From Genes to Organisms : Bioinformatics System Models and Software
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Book Chapters
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. p. 203 – 217.Patents
Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle
CN108137152; ES2767689; EP3347268; AU2016319276; PL3024726; EP3347268; CN108137152; AU2016319276; EP3024726; CN105164015; JP6224234; ES2633217; US9725170; EP2813428; US9611032; WO2017042354; JP2016523759; EP3024726; US2016001875; US2015360776; CN105164015; AU2014280222; WO2014198774; EP2813428.
2014.Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device
US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.
2014.2013
Journal Articles
Miniature curved artificial compound eyes
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332 – 9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60 – 71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.Evolving team compositions by agent swapping
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282 – 298. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2191292.Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)
RSC Advances. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 46, p. 24671 – 24679. DOI : 10.1039/c3ra44412k.Conference Papers
Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots
2013. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 281 – 293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
2013. IROS 13, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-6, 2013. p. 1361 – 1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696526.Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 1886 – 1892. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696606.Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks
2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.Optic-Flow Based Control of a 46g Quadrotor
2013. Workshop on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive
2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433 – 4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 3987 – 3992. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696926.Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.Hyper-flexible 1-D shape sensor
2013. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013. p. 1899 – 1902. DOI : 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627163.Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures
2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 5 – 18. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_1.Soft Cell Simulator: A tool to study Soft Multi-Cellular Robots
2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 1300 – 1305. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739644.Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. p. 281 – 293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.Reviews
Using robots to understand social behavior
Biological Reviews. 2013. num. 88, p. 31 – 39. DOI : 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00236.x.Theses
Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.VisionHat Development of a wearable collision alert system supported by flexible optic flow sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.Book Chapters
Aerial collective systems
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2013. p. 609 – 660.Posters
Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping
International Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, July 14-19, 2013.A Bee in the Mirror: A Bio-Inspired Model for Vision Based Mid-Air Collision Avoidance
Bionav – The application of animal navigation techniques in autonomous vehicles, Royal Holloway College, Egham, UK, 11-13 April 2013.Artificial muscles for soft robots
Festival de robotique.2012
Journal Articles
An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots
Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785 – 798. DOI : 10.1163/156855312X626325.Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2012. Vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864 – 868. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1104267109.Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011 – 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433.An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 – 1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.Vision Tape – a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2012. Vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131 – 1139. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2166760.Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila
PLOS One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048381.Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor
The American Naturalist. 2012. Vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391 – 400. DOI : 10.1086/664079.3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots
Autonomous Robots. 2012. Vol. 33, num. 1-2, p. 5 – 20. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-012-9277-0.Conference Papers
Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 4641 – 4647. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224987.Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor
2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 561 – 562.Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection
2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 530 – 531.Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles
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.Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors
2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012. p. 4810 – 4815. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385505.Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing
2012. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, December 3-7, 2012. p. 1591 – 1596. DOI : 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477823.Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors
2012. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 3956 – 3961. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225011.The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions
2012. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, July 1-4, 2012. p. 569 – 574. DOI : 10.1109/ICCME.2012.6275674.Theses
Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.Posters
A soft robotic actuator using dielectric minimum energy structures
2nd International Conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer (EAP) transducers & artificial muscles, Potsdam (Berlin), Germany, May 29-30, 2012.2011
Journal Articles
Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2011. Vol. 278, p. 378 – 383. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2010.1407.GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
Bioinformatics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263 – 2270. DOI : 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr373.A Quantitative Test of Hamilton’s Rule for the Evolution of Altruism
PLOS Biology. 2011. Vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615.Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems
Journal of Field Robotics. 2011. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405 – 423. DOI : 10.1002/rob.20385.Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis
Journal of Computational Science. 2011. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 165 – 177. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.01.007.Conference Papers
The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings
2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. p. 1503 – 1508. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502.The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery
2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems
2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2011), San Francisco, September 25-30, 2011. p. 5015 – 5020. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095129.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.Robot Companions for Citizens
2011. FET’11, Budapest, p. 47 – 51. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.017.The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot
2011. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011, Thailand, 2011-12-07 – 2011-12-11. p. 2249 – 2250. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181631.CURVACE – CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes
2011. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, May 4-6, 2011. p. 308 – 309. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.040.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.
2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System
2011. BIOSIGNALS 2011 – International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011. p. 132 – 137.myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems
2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 1913 – 1918. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048425.Theses
Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Posters
Vision Tape – a novel class of flexible vision sensor for robots and humans
IEEE Swiss Image and Vision Sensors Workshop 2011 (SIVS 2011), Zurich, Switzerland, September 8, 2011.Patents
Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye
AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.
2011.2010
Journal Articles
Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information
Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117 – 144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude
Current Biology. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847 – R849. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.022.Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection
PLOS Biology. 2010. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292.Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot
Autonomous Robots. 2010. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295 – 306. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4.Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2010. Vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286 – 6291. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0913357107.Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2010. Vol. 64, p. 675 – 684. DOI : 10.1007/s00265-009-0885-4.Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles. 2010. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107 – 117. DOI : 10.1260/1756-8293.2.2.107.A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77 – 91. DOI : 10.1007/s12213-010-0026-1.Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920 – 926. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2010.2097261.Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10 – 19. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2010.937319.Conference Papers
Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System
2010. 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010. p. 6599 – 602. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627127.Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, Anchorage, Alaska, May 7, 2010.Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments
2010. 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10th 2010. p. 562 – 563. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_61.Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3329 – 3334. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509273.Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010). p. 15 – 20. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509421.An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, US, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3349 – 3354. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338.Theses
Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.Book Chapters
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2010.Conference Proceedings
Swarm Intelligence. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010
2010.Posters
GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
All-SystemsX.ch-Day 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-2, 2010.GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
3rd annual joint conference on Systems Biology, Regulatory Genomics, and Reverse Engineering Challenges, New York City, USA, November 16-20, 2010.Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
International Workshop on Self-Organized Systems, Zürich, Switzerland, December 9-11.2009
Journal Articles
Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 102 – 113. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03945.x.The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2009. Vol. 106, num. 37, p. 15786 – 15790. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0903152106.Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 234 – 245. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03944.x.Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods
Journal of Computational Biology. 2009. Vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229 – 239. DOI : 10.1089/cmb.2008.09TT.Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2009. Vol. 3, p. 71 – 78. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2008817.Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21 – 32. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-008-9104-9.Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2009. Vol. 2009, p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.1155/2009/179680.Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2009. Vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648 – 660. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2008.2011741.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201 – 219. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9139-6.Conference Papers
A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs
2009. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 2873 – 2878. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465.The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59 – 65.A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 583 – 588. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005.optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow
2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.Methods for Artificial Evolution of Truly Cooperative Robots
2009. International Workshop on Artificial Neural Network 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. p. 768 – 772. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_96.How to control MAVs in cluttered environments?
2009. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St-Louis, October 11-15.Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots
2009. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009. p. 55 – 61. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982930.2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St. Louis, October 10-15, 2009. p. 3659 – 3664. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354263.Books
Flying Insects and Robots
Berlin: Springer, 2009.Theses
Evolutionary reverse engineering of gene networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.The evolution of communication in robot societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Adaptive wake and sleep detection for wearable systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Book Chapters
Active Vision for Goal-Oriented Humanoid Robot Walking
Creating Brain-Like Intelligence; Springer-Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 313.A Robotic Platform for Studying the Evolution of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 306.Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 73 – 86.Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. p. 271 – 284.Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 123 – 134.Technology and Manufacturing of Ultralight Micro Air Vehicles
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 299 – 316.2008
Journal Articles
Enactive Robot Vision
Adaptive Behavior. 2008. Vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122 – 128. DOI : 10.1177/1059712308089183.Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay
Swarm Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167 – 188. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-008-0013-5.The Age of Analog Networks
AI Magazine. 2008. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63 – . DOI : 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2156.Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning
Evolutionary Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47 – 62. DOI : 10.1007/s12065-007-0002-4.Conference Papers
Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot
2008. 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 2008. p. 41 – 42.Optic flow to control small UAVs
2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 2008-09-22.Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios
2008. Artificial Life XI, Winchester UK, 5-8 August 2008. p. 569 – .Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs
2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots
2008. The 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 6-8, 2008. p. 41 – 46. DOI : 10.1109/LAB-RS.2008.22.Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots
2008. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. p. 1242 – 1247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650856.Improving Actigraph Sleep/Wake Classification with Cardio-Respiratory Signals
2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, BC, 20.-25.8.2008. p. 5262 – 5265. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650401.A miniature 7g jumping robot
2008. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2008), Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008. p. 373 – 378. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543236.Books
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.Book Chapters
Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008.Evolution of Altruistic Robots
Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008. p. 232 – 248.Posters
Scalable Reverse Engineering of Nonlinear Gene Networks
Exhibition of the Master projects, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 7, 2008.Patents
Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight
PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.
2008.Student Projects
Observation of Insect Collisions
2008.Waypoint navigation with a MAV
2008.2007
Journal Articles
A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot
Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671 – 1684. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782227417.Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots
Current Biology. 2007. Vol. 17, p. 514 – 519. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058.Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2007. Vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596 – . DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2006.886801.Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 2007. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61 – 96. DOI : 10.1007/s10710-006-9019-1.Conference Papers
Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks
2007. 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2007), València, 11.4.-13.4.07. p. 155 – 165. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-71783-6_15.A Simple and Robust Fixed-Wing Platform for Outdoor Flying Robot Experiments
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69 – 70.Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133 – 134.Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters
2007. GECCO 2007, University College, London, 2007. p. 1304 – . DOI : 10.1145/1276958.1277205.A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2007), Rome, Italy, 10-14.4.2007. p. 367 – 372. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363814.3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’07), Roma, Italy, April 10th-14th, 2007. p. 1336 – 1341. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363170.Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight
2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17.Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 61 – 62.Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems
2007. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007) 25-28 Sept. 2007, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. p. 2471 – 2478. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424781.Adaptive Sleep/Wake Classification Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals for Wearable Devices
2007. Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2007, Montreal, 27.-30.11.2007. p. 203 – 206. DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463344.Theses
Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Enactive robot vision
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Conference Proceedings
International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Book of Abstracts
2007. International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots.Posters
Optic-flow-based Altitude and Forward Speed Regulation using Stereotypical Lateral Movements
International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, August 12-17.Bioinspired Vision-based Microflyers
EPFL.A 1.5g SMA actuated Microglider looking for the Light
EPFL.A Low-cost, Safe and Easy-to-Use Flying Platform for Outdoor Robotic Research and Education
International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007.Wearable Human Sleep/Wake Classification
BMES Annual Chapter Conference, Lausanne, 31.10.2007.Pheromone-based Swarming for Position-less MAVs
Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17 August.Self Deploying Microglider
Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17.8.2007.Patents
Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks
US2007011111; US7370019.
2007.2006
Journal Articles
Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships
Autonomous Robots. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243 – 254. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-006-9718-8.Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2006. Vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137 – 146. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2005.858857.Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots
International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005 – 1024. DOI : 10.1002/int.20173.Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2006. Vol. 273, p. 1815 – 23. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513.Conference Papers
Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving
2006. The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 March 2006. p. 153 – .Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers
2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836 – 2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation
2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15. p. 3267 – 3272. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2006.282436.Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots
2006. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006. p. 10 – .Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding
2006. 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006. p. 671 – . DOI : 10.1007/11844297_68.Influence of the level of polyandry and genetic architecture on division of labour
2006. The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, June 3-7, 2006. p. 358 – 364.Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation
2006. From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Roma, Italy, 25-29 September 2006. p. 263 – . DOI : 10.1007/11840541_22.Active Vision for Neural Development and Landmark Navigation
2006. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 9-14 July 2006. p. 247 – 248.Reviews
Trends in Dynamic and Embodied Cognition
International Neural Network Society Newsletter. 2006. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 9 – .Conference Proceedings
Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices
2006. EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006.Artificial Life X
2006. Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.2005
Journal Articles
The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2005. Vol. 12, num. 2, p. 21 – 28. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313.From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons
Artificial Life. 2005. Vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121 – 138. DOI : 10.1162/1064546053278900.The SWARM-BOTS Project
Künstliche Intelligenz. 2005. p. 32 – 35.The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots
Neural Networks. 2005. Vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656 – . DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.043.Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots
Evolutionary Computation. 2005. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527 – . DOI : 10.1162/106365605774666912.Conference Papers
Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots
2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 189 – 199. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_20.Constraints on Body Movement during Visual Development Affect Behavior of Evolutionary Robots
2005. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, 31 July-4 August 2005. p. 2778 – . DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556365.Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
2005. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2005), Barcelona, 18-22 April. p. 2594 – 2599. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504.Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT
2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 282 – 291. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_29.Theses
Bio-inspired vision-based flying robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Multi-cellular reconfigurable circuits : evolution, morphogenesis and learning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Posters
Bio-inspired Indoor Microflyers
50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, 9-14 July.2004
Journal Articles
Machine Self-Evolution
YLEM journal. 2004. Vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4 – 10.Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes
Evolutionary Computation. 2004. Vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495 – . DOI : 10.1162/1063656043138923.SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193 – 221. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c.Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot
Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223 – 245. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3.Coevolution of active vision and feature selection
Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218 – . DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.Conference Papers
Connecting Transistors and Proteins
2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 9 – 14.Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics
2004. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14. p. 53 – 60.Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes
2004. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2004), Seattle, 24-26 June. p. 30 – 37.The SWARM-BOTS project
2004. Swarm Robotics (SAB’2004), Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17. p. 31 – 44. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4.Book Chapters
Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004. p. 293 – 311.Conference Proceedings
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation – GECCO 2004
2004. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.Reports
Hardware morphogenetic developmental system
2004
Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft
2004
Posters
Optic-flow-based Navigation for Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
Insect Sensors and Robotics, Brisbane, Australia, 23-26 August 2004.Patents
Spiking neural network device
AU2002338754; WO2004027704.
2004.2003
Journal Articles
Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize
Ercim News. 2003. num. 53, p. 25 – 26.Conference Papers
Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection
2003. European Cognitive Science Conference, Osnabrück, Germany, 10-13 September. DOI : 10.4324/9781315782362-9.SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation
2003. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 1626 – 1631. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1248877.Vision-based Navigation from Wheels to Wings
2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 2968 – 2973. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249322.Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs
2003. 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EvoRob’2003), Essex, UK, 14-16 April. p. 593 – 604. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36605-9_54.Effects of group composition and level of selection in the evolution of cooperation in artificial ants
2003. 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2003). p. 128 – 137. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_14.Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings
2003. 3rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems (HART’2002), Fukui, Japan, December 6-7, 2002. p. 65 – 70.POEtic Tissue: An Integrated Architecture for Bio-inspired Hardware
2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 129 – 140. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_12.A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit
2003. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2003), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March. p. 153 – 164. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_14.Hardware spiking neural network with run-time reconfigurable connectivity in an autonomous robot
2003. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 9-11. p. 189 – 198. DOI : 10.1109/EH.2003.1217666.Reports
Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation
2003
2002
Journal Articles
Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2002. Vol. 6, num. 1, p. 31 – 37. DOI : 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01812-X.Conference Papers
Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots
2002. 2nd International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV’2002), Tübingen, November 22 – 24, 2002. p. 592 – 600. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36181-2_59.SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics
2002. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR’2002), Stockholm, Sweden, October 7-11. p. 71 – 76.Levels of Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior in Evolutionary Neural Controllers
2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation on Adaptive Behavior (SAB’2002), Edinburgh, UK, 4 – 9 – 11 August.SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities
2002. Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13. p. 11 – 22.Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems
2002. The Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 5 – 9 August. p. 247 – .Evolutionary Bits’n’Spikes
2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December.SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots
2002. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. p. 145 – 150. DOI : 10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1173259.Books
Manuale sulle Reti Neurali
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.Book Chapters
Trends in Evolutionary Robotics
Proceedings of the 2002 Interdisciplinary College; Bremen: Arendtap Publishing, 2002. p. 314 – 333.Ago Ergo Sum
Consciousness Evolving; Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2002. p. 181 – 204.Conference Proceedings
From Animals to Animats 7
2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.2001
Journal Articles
Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution
Theory in Biosciences. 2001. Vol. 120, num. 3-4, p. 225 – 240. DOI : 10.1078/1431-7613-00042.Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments
Evolutionary Computation. 2001. Vol. 9, num. 4, p. 495 – 524. DOI : 10.1162/10636560152642887.Transitive choices by a simple, fully connected, backpropagation neural network: implications for the comparative study of transitive inference
Animal Cognition. 2001. Vol. 4, p. 61 – 68. DOI : 10.1007/s100710100092.Evolution of Plastic Control Networks
Autonomous Robots. 2001. Vol. 11, num. 3, p. 311 – 317. DOI : 10.1023/A:1012459627968.Conference Papers
An Evolutionary Active-Vision System
2001. The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, South Korea, 05/27/2001 – 05/30/2001. p. 107 – .Books
Evolutionary Robotics. The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organizing Machines
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.Book Chapters
Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-based Robots
Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life; Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001. p. 38 – 61.Co-Evolution and Ontogenetic Change in Competing Robots
Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents; Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2001.2000
Journal Articles
Evolutionary robotics: developing robots through artificial evolution
ERCIM News. 2000. Vol. 42, p. 12 – 13.Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots
3D The Journal of Three dimensional images (in japanese). 2000. Vol. 14, num. 4, p. 64 – 69.Evolutionary Robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness
Neural Networks. 2000. Vol. 13, num. 4-5, p. 431 – 443. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(00)00032-0.Conference Papers
Artificial Evolution of Robust Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots
2000. 3rd International Conference on Human and Computer (HC’2000), Aizu, Japan,Evolutionary Robotics: Coping with Environmental Change
2000. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 8 – 12.Evolutionary On-Line Self-Organization of Autonomous Robots
2000. 5th International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB’2000), Oita University, Japan,Evolutionary Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments
2000. 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2000). p. 241 – 251. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-46406-9_24.Theses
Evolutionary adaptive robots : artificial evolution of adaptation mechanisms for autonomous agents
Lausanne, EPFL, 2000.Book Chapters
Evolutionary Robotics: The Next Generation
Evolutionary Robotics III; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 2000.Conference Proceedings
From Animals to Animats 6
2000. 6th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.1999
Journal Articles
Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1999. Vol. 15, num. 6, p. 990 – 1000. DOI : 10.1109/70.817664.Learning and Evolution
Autonomous Robots. 1999. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 89 – 113. DOI : 10.1023/A:1008973931182.Conference Papers
Synthetic approaches to neurobiology: review and case study in the control of anguiliform locomotion
1999. 5th European Conference, ECAL’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13–17, 1999. p. 195 – 204. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_26.Incremental Evolution with Minimal Resources
1999. First International Khepera Workshop (IKW’1999).Evolution of Adaptive-Synapse Controllers
1999. 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’1999), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-17 September.Adaptive exploration of a dynamic environment by a group of communicating robots
1999. 5th European Conference, ECAL’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13–17, 1999. p. 596 – 605. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_79.A probabilistic model for understanding and comparing collective aggregation mechanisms
1999. 5th European Conference, ECAL’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13–17, 1999. p. 575 – 584. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_77.Conference Proceedings
Advances in Artificial Life
1999. 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’99).1998
Journal Articles
Evolution, Modularity, and Emergence in Autonomous Robots
1998.Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do ‘arm races’ arise in artificial evolution?
Artificial Life. 1998. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 311 – 335. DOI : 10.1162/106454698568620.Incremental Robot Shaping
Connection Science. 1998. Vol. 10, p. 341 – 360. DOI : 10.1080/095400998116486.Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors
Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 117 – 140. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(97)00110-X.Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 7-8, p. 1461 – 1478. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00082-3.Conference Papers
Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics
1998. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT’1998), Berlin, p. 137 – 151. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-64957-3_69.How co-evolution can enhance the adaptation power of artificial evolution: Implications for evolutionary robotics
1998. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT’1998).Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice
1998. 5th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1998), Zurich, Switzerland, August 17-21. p. 515 – 524.Incremental Robot Shaping
1998. 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming.Book Chapters
Design, Control, and Applications of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Agents; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. p. 159 – 186.Evolution and learning in Autonomous Robotic Agents
Bio-inspired Computing Systems; Lausanne: PPUR, 1998.Evolutionary Robotics in Artificial Life and Behavior Engineering
Evolutionary Robotics II; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1998.1997
Conference Papers
Adaptive Behavior in Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics
1997. 4th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’1997).God Save the Red Queen! Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics
1997. 2nd Conference on Genetic Programming.Reviews
An Internal Teacher for Neural Computation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1997. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 687 – 688. DOI : 10.1017/S0140525X97261601.Engineering Adaptive Behavior
Adaptive Behavior. 1997. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 407 – 416. DOI : 10.1177/105971239700500309.Book Chapters
Evolutionary Mobile Robotics
Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science; Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.Reducing Human Design and Increasing Adaptivity in Evolutionary Robotics
Evolutionary Robotics I; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1997.Media
Interview on Evolutionary Robotics
1997.1996
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Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics. 1996. Vol. 26, num. 3, p. 396 – 407. DOI : 10.1109/3477.499791.Conference Papers
Evolutionary Re-Adaptation of Neurocontrollers in Changing Environments
1996. Intelligent Technologies.Evolving fast-learning neural controllers for a mobile robot
1996. 24th Conference of Neurobiology, Goettingen,Extraction of Coherent Information from Non-Overlapping Receptive Fields
1996. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN’1996), Bochum, Germany, July 16-19, 1996. p. 389 – 394. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-61510-5_68.Evolution of Plastic Neurocontrollers for Situated Agents
1996. 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1996), Cape Cod, Massachusetts, September 9-13. p. 402 – 410.1995
Journal Articles
A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance
Perception. 1995. Vol. 24S, p. 22.Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 1995. Vol. 16, num. 2-4, p. 183 – 195. DOI : 10.1016/0921-8890(96)81008-6.Robotica Evolutiva: metodologia e prospettive
Sistemi Intelligenti. 1995. Vol. VII, num. 2, p. 203 – 221.Theses
Neuroetologia Artificiale: alla ricerca delle basi adattive dell’intelligenza
University of Trieste, 1995.Book Chapters
Evolution and Mobile Autonomous Robotics
Towards Evolvable Hardware, The Evolutionary Engineering Approach; Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995. p. 221 – 249.1994
Conference Papers
Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic Evolution of a Neural Network Driven Robot
1994. 3rd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1994), Brighton, England, August 8-12. p. 421 – 430.Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective
1994. From Perception to Action Conference (PERAC’1994).Conception évolutionniste de réseaux de neurones pour le contrôle de robots mobiles
1994. Journées Neurosciences et Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Chamonix, France, 2-5 mai 2004.How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics
1994. 4th International Workshop on Artificial Life, Cambridge, p. 190 – 197.Reports
Reti neurali artificiali: fondamenti tecnici e teorici
1994
1993
Journal Articles
Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network
Cognitive Systems. 1993. Vol. 3, p. 331 – 349.Conference Papers
Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks
1993. Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1992).Patterns of Interactions in Shared Environments
1993. 2nd European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL’1993).Anticipatory Tracking of a Moving Object
1993. Artificial and Natural Visual Systems. p. 344 – 353. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-57379-8_21.1992
Conference Papers
Prediction and Imitation of Linguistic Sounds by Neural Networks
1992. First Workshop on Neural Networks and Speech Processing.Reports
Internal Prediction and Environment Models: An application to the development of language
1992
1991
Conference Papers
Emergent complex behaviours in ecosystems of neural networks
1991. Parallel Architectures and Neural Networks.Reports
Symmetry Detection with a Neural Network
1991