Publications

2025

Journal Articles

Edible Pneumatic Battery for Sustained and Repeated Robot Actuation

B. Kwak; S. Zhang; A. Keller; Q. Qi; J. Rossiter et al. 

Advanced Science. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202509350.

Miniature Multihole Airflow Sensor for Lightweight Aircraft Over Wide Speed and Angular Range

L. Stuber; S. L. Jeger; R. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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]

A. Billard; M. Bouri; M. S. Sakar; J. Paik; A. Ijspeert et al. 

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

O. Aloui; R. Zufferey; W. Stewart; M. Askari; S. Jeger et al. 

Advanced Robotics Research. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adrr.202500050.

Edible aquatic robots with Marangoni propulsion

S. Zhang; B. Kwak; R. Zhu; M. Pankhurst; L. Zhang et al. 

Nature Communications. 2025. Vol. 16. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-59559-8.

First-Person View Interfaces for Teleoperation of Aerial Swarms

B. Jarvis; C. Toumieh; D. Floreano 

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

B. Kwak; J. Hars; D. Floreano 

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

Y. Sun; Y. Piskarev; E. Hofstetter; C. Fischer; Q. Boehler et al. 

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

A. Ollero; A. Suarez; C. Papaioannidis; I. Pitas; J. M. Marredo et al. 

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

J. Petrš; R. Kobayashi; F. van Diggelen; H. Nabae; K. Suzumori et al. 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202500310.

Conference Papers

Tensegrity-based Robot Leg Design with Variable Stiffness

E. Mortensen; J. Petrs; A. Dittrich; D. Floreano 

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

E. Hofstetter; Y. Piskarev; D. Floreano 

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

W. D. Shin / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Patents

Variable stiffness catheter for surgical applications, system for remote magnetic navigation surgical approach and method for manufacturing said catheter

Y. Piskarev; Y. Sun; E. H. Hofstetter; D. Floreano 

WO2025186256.

2025.

2024

Journal Articles

Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs

W. D. Shin; H. V. Phan; M. A. Daley; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

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

H. V. Phan; D. Floreano 

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

S. Jeger; V. Wüest; C. Toumieh; D. Floreano 

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

M. Macchini; B. Jarvis; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

Q. Qi; V. Lo Gatto; A. Keller; R. Boom; M. Caironi et al. 

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

V. Wüest; S. Jeger; M. Feroskhan; E. Ajanic; F. Bergonti et al. 

Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-52369-4.

Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots

H. V. Phan; H. Park; D. Floreano 

Nature. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07755-9.

High-Speed Motion Planning for Aerial Swarms in Unknown and Cluttered Environments

C. Toumieh; D. Floreano 

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

M. Askari; M. Benciolini; H. V. Phan; W. Stewart; A. Ijspeert et al. 

Communications Engineering. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-024-00241-0.

Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Y. Piskarev; Y. Sun; M. Righi; Q. Boehler; C. Chautems et al. 

Advanced Science. 2024. Vol. 11, num. 12, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202470069.

Towards edible robots and robotic food

D. Floreano; B. Kwak; M. Pankhurst; J. Shintake; M. Caironi et al. 

Nature Reviews Materials. 2024.  p. online. DOI : 10.1038/s41578-024-00688-9.

A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing

V. F. Annese; P. Cataldi; V. Galli; G. Coco; J. P. V. Damasceno et al. 

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

F. Bergonti; G. Nava; V. Wüest; A. Paolino; G. L’Erario et al. 

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

Multifunctional Wings and Appendages for Flight, Perching, and Locomotion

M. Askari / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics

Y. Piskarev / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Accurate and agile flight with winged drones

V. Wüest / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Patents

Method for wind harvesting and wind rejection in flying drones

C. Vourtsis; D. Floreano; N. S. Müller; W. J. Stewart; V. Casas Rochel 

WO2024069210.

2024.

2023

Journal Articles

Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking

M. Askari; W. D. Shin; D. Lenherr; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

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

M. Mangan; D. Floreano; K. Yasui; B. Trimmer; N. Gravish et al. 

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

Y. Piskarev; A. Devincenti; V. Ramachandran; P-E. Bourban; M. Dickey et al. 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 6, p. 2200409. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200409.

Wind Defiant Morphing Drones

C. Vourtsis; V. C. Rochel; N. S. Mueller; W. Stewart; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 2200297. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200297.

The evolution of behavioral cues and signaling in displaced communication

A. Bernard; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLoS Computational Biology. 2023. Vol. 19, num. 3, p. e1010487. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010487.

An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot

V. F. Annese; B. Kwak; G. Coco; V. Galli; I. K. Ilic et al. 

Advanced Sensor Research. 2023. num. 2300092, p. 9. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300092.

Conference Papers

Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

N. Wiedemann; V. Wüest; A. Loquercio; M. Müller; D. Floreano et al. 

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

S. Zhang; B. Kwak; D. Floreano 

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

E. Ajanic / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Resilient drones with morphing wings

C. Vourtsis / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Patents

A variable stiffness magnetic catheter made of a conductive shape memory polymer for minimally invasive surgery

Y. Piskarev; D. Floreano; J. Shintake 

WO2023099949.

2023.

2022

Journal Articles

Robotic Avian Wing Explains Aerodynamic Advantages of Wing Folding and Stroke Tilting in Flapping Flight

E. Ajanic; A. Paolini; C. Coster; D. Floreano; C. Johansson 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200148.

Sharp turning maneuvers with avian-inspired wing and tail morphing

E. Ajanic; M. Feroskhan; V. Wüest; D. Floreano 

Communications Engineering. 2022.  p. 10.1038/s44172 – 022. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-022-00035-2.

What we look for at Science Robotics

B. J. Nelson; P. Dupont; D. Floreano; K. Goldberg; H. Gu et al. 

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

F. Schiano; P. M. Kornatowski; L. Cencetti; D. Floreano 

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

W. D. Shin; W. Stewart; M. A. Estrada; A. J. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

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

F. Dell’Agnola; P-K. Jao; A. Arza; R. Chavarriaga; J. d. R. Millan et al. 

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2022.  p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3186625.

Dual Stiffness Tensegrity Platform for Resilient Robotics

D. Zappetti; Y. Sun; M. Gevers; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022.  p. 2200025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200025.

Enhancement of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive by CO2 Laser Treatment

Y. Piskarev; E. Desbouis; V. Ramachandran; J. Yang; N. Baugh et al. 

Advanced Engineering Materials. 2022. num. 2200355. DOI : 10.1002/adem.202200355.

On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions

F. Schilling; E. Soria; D. Floreano 

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

Y. Piskarev; J. Shintake; C. Chautems; J. Lussi; Q. Boehler et al. 

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

W. Stewart; E. Ajanic; M. Muller; D. Floreano 

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022.  p. 1 – 9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.

Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation

V. Ramachandran; M. Macchini; D. Floreano 

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

F. Schiano; D. Natter; D. Zambrano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745 – 1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73 – 80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.

How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

A. Paolillo; F. Colella; N. Nosengo; F. Schiano; W. J. Stewart et al. 

Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 65, p. eabg5561. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abg5561.

Conference Papers

Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots

Y. Sun; K. M. Digumarti; H. V. Phan; O. Aloui; D. Floreano 

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

W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano; E. Ebeid 

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

D. Zappetti; W. J. Stewart; M. Boutot; D. Floreano 

2022. 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-8, 2022. p. 553 – 558. DOI : 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.9762069.

Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings

B. Kwak; J. Shintake; l. Zhang; D. Floreano 

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.

Slip Anticipation for Grasping Deformable Objects Using a Soft Force Sensor

E. J. K. Judd; B. Aksoy; K. M. Digumarti; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

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

V. Wüest; E. Ajanic; M. Müller; D. Floreano 

2022. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981921.

Books

Tales from a Robotic World. How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future

D. Floreano; N. Nosengo 

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.

Theses

Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms

F. M. Schilling / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms

E. Soria / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

2021

Journal Articles

Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots

W. Stewart; L. Guarino; Y. Piskarev; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021.  p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.

Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones

C. Vourtsis; W. Stewart; D. Floreano 

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

M. Macchini; L. De Matteis; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

V. Ramachandran; F. Schilling; A. R. Wu; D. Floreano 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021.  p. 2100043. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100043.

Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones

C. Vourtsis; R. V. Casas; F. R. Serrano; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

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

S. Park; J. Shintake; Y. Piskarev; Y. Wei; I. Joshipura et al. 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2021.  p. 2100263. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202100263.

Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots

I. Loshchilov; E. Del Dottore; B. Mazzolai; D. Floreano 

PLOS One. 2021. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. e0252202. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252202.

Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments

E. Soria; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

K. Minoda; F. Schilling; V. Wüest; D. Floreano; T. Yairi 

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

F. Schilling; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

M. Pavliv; F. Schiano; C. Reardon; D. Floreano; G. Loianno 

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

D. Floreano; H. Lipson 

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

M. Macchini; J. Frogg; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

M. Macchini; M. Lortkipanidze; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

E. Zardini; D. Zappetti; D. Zambrano; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

2021. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), Lille, France (virtual conference), July 10-14, 2021. DOI : 10.1145/3449639.3459311.

Theses

Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics

V. Ramachandran / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

M. Macchini / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Modular Robots

D. Zappetti / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

2020

Journal Articles

Design Optimization of Soft Robots

S. G. Nurzaman; L. Wang; F. Iida; J. Lipton; D. Floreano et al. 

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

E. Ajanic; M. Feroskhan; S. Mintchev; F. Noca; D. Floreano 

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

Y. Piskarev; J. Shintake; V. Ramachandran; N. Baugh; M. D. Dickey et al. 

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

P. M. Kornatowski; M. Feroskhan; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

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

P. M. Kornatowski; M. Feroskhan; W. J. Stewart; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4297 – 4304. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993768.

Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine

D. Zappetti; R. Arandes Vilagrasa; E. Ajanic; D. Floreano 

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

D. Zappetti; S. H. Jeoung; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

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

J. P. Queralta; C. Martinez Almansa; F. Schiano; D. Floreano; T. Westerlund 

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

M. Macchini; T. Havy; A. Weber; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

J. Shintake; D. Zappetti; T. Peter; Y. Ikemoto; D. Floreano 

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

V. Delafontaine; F. Schiano; G. Cocco; A. Rusu; D. Floreano 

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

P. M. Kornatowski / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Patents

Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump

V. Cacucciolo; D. Floreano; S. Maeda; H. Shea; J. Shintake 

WO2020233791.

2020.

2019

Journal Articles

Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces

M. Macchini; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

C. Rognon; V. Ramachandran; A. Wu; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

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

C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; Q. Boehler; D. Floreano; B. Nelson 

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 6, p. 1900086. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.201900086.

Stretchable pumps for soft machines

V. Cacucciolo; J. Shintake; Y. Kuwajima; S. Maeda; D. Floreano et al. 

Nature. 2019. Vol. 572, p. 516 – 519. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-019-1479-6.

Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation

F. Schilling; J. Lecoeur; F. Schiano; D. Floreano 

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

G. Cocco; D. Floreano 

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

J. Delmerico; S. Mintchev; A. Giusti; B. Gromov; K. Melo et al. 

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

J. Lecoeur; M. Dacke; D. Floreano; E. Baird 

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

D. Falanga; K. Kleber; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano; D. Scaramuzza 

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

J. E. Auerbach; A. Concordel; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano 

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

C. Rognon; M. Koehler; D. Floreano; A. M. Okamura 

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

A. T. Cherpillod; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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

C. Rognon / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance

J. J. D. N. Lecoeur / D. Floreano; E. Baird (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Patents

STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS

B. Nelson; S. Lyttle; C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; D. Floreano 

US2020230361; EP3678724; CN111050835; WO2019048328; EP3449965.

2019.

Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system

J. Miehlbradt; F. I. T. Dell’Agnola; A. Cherpillod; M. Coscia; F. Artoni et al. 

US12019438; US2021247758; WO2019244112; GB2574886; GB201810285.

2019.

2018

Journal Articles

All‐Fabric Wearable Electroadhesive Clutch

V. Ramachandran; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1800313. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201800313.

Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

J. Shintake; V. Cacucciolo; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

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

J. Lecoeur; E. Baird; D. Floreano 

Scientific Reports. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.

Ultra-stretchable strain sensors using carbon black-filled elastomer composites and comparison of capacitive versus resistive sensors

J. Shintake; Y. Piskarev; S. Jeong; D. Floreano 

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 3, p. 1700284. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201700284.

Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami

S. Mintchev; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 20, p. eaau0275. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.

Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones

J. C. Miehlbradt; A. T. Cherpillod; S. Mintchev; M. Coscia; F. Artoni et al. 

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

C. Rognon; S. Mintchev; F. I. T. Dell’Agnola; A. T. Cherpillod; D. Atienza Alonso et al. 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2362 – 2369. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.

Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles

M. A. Estrada; S. Mintchev; D. L. Christensen; M. R. Cutkosky; D. Floreano 

Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.

Soft Robotic Grippers

J. Shintake; V. Cacucciolo; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

Advanced Materials. 2018. Vol. 30, num. 29, p. 1707035. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201707035.

Conference Papers

Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor

P. Bai; B. Guerreiro; R. Cunha; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano et al. 

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

S. Mintchev; D. Zappetti; J. Willemin; D. Floreano 

2018. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018. p. 7492 – 7497. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460667.

A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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

C. Rognon; A. R. Wu; S. Mintchev; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

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.

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

C. Rognon; A. Wu; S. Mintchev; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

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

P. Bai; B. Guerreiro; R. Cunha; P. Kornatowski; D. Floreano et al. 

2018. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), SOUTH KOREA, Oct 17-20, 2018. p. 291 – 296.

Working Papers

Tesla’s problem: overestimating automation, underestimating humans

B. Büchel; D. Floreano 

2018

Patents

Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device

D. Floreano; C. Rognon; S. Mintchev; A. Concordel; D. Atienza Alonso et al. 

US10860014; US2019258239; EP3509801; WO2018047102.

2018.

2017

Journal Articles

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.

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

M. di Luca; S. Mintchev; G. H. M. Heitz; F. Noca; D. Floreano 

Interface Focus. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 20160092. DOI : 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0092.

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

S. Mintchev; S. D. de Rivaz; D. Floreano 

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248 – 1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

P. Ramdya; R. Thandiackal; R. Cherney; T. Asselborn; R. Benton et al. 

Nature Communications. 2017. Vol. 8, p. 14494. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms14494.

Disentangling constraints using viability evolution principles in integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies

G. E. Tamo; A. Maesani; S. Träger; M. Degiacomi; D. Floreano et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2017. Vol. 7, p. 235. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-00266-w.

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

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

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

Conference Papers

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

T. A. P. Paschal; J. Shintake; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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.

An origami-inspired cargo drone

P. M. Kornatowski; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855 – 6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.

A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field

C. Chautems; A. Tonazzini; D. Floreano; B. Nelson 

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

J. Shintake; H. A. Sonar; Y. Piskarev; J. Paik; D. Floreano 

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

G. E. Tamo; A. Maesani; S. Traeger; M. T. Degiacomi; D. Floreano et al. 

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.

Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology

D. Floreano; S. Mintchev; J. Shintake 

2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203 – 1. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

D. Zappetti; S. Mintchev; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

2017. Living Machines 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA, July 25-28, 2017. p. 497 – 508. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_42.

Theses

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

N. Dousse / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Patents

Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

US11065771; US2019047157; WO2017145103.

2017.

Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same

A. Tonazzini; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

US10113537; US2017292502; WO2017175174.

2017.

Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

P. M. Kornatowski; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

PL3439955; EP3439955; US10252795; EP3439955; SG11201808868Q; US2017291697; WO2017175199.

2017.

2016

Journal Articles

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 2, p. 231 – 238. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.

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.

Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks

S. Rosati; K. Kruzelecki; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano; B. Rimoldi 

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690 – 1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.

Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, p. 789 – 803. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9494-4.

Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones

N. Dousse; G. Heitz; D. Floreano 

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

A. Maesani; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2016. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 125 – 144. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2015.2428292.

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

A. Tonazzini; S. Mintchev; B. Schubert; B. Mazzolai; J. Shintake et al. 

Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.

Soft compliant gripper for safe manipulation of extremely fragile objects

H. Shea; J. Shintake; D. Floreano 

SPIE Newsroom. 2016. DOI : 10.1117/2.1201603.006409.

Conference Papers

Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

J. Shintake; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

2016. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14. p. 4957 – 4962. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759728.

Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity

J. E. Auerbach; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1061 – 1064. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931675.

A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings

L. Dufour; K. Owen; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; J. Germann; M. Kovac 

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.

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

G. Leclerc; J. E. Auerbach; G. Iacca; D. Floreano 

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

S. Mintchev; D. Floreano 

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

Fixed-wing drones for communication networks

M. Varga / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers

J. Shintake / D. Floreano; H. Shea (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Book Chapters

Evolutionary Robotics

S. Nolfi; J. Bongard; P. Husbands; D. Floreano 

Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 2035 – 2068.

Patents

Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle

S. Mintchev; L. Daler; D. Floreano; S. Mintchev 

US9446845; WO2016066790; US2016122016.

2016.

2015

Journal Articles

Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents

M. Varga; J-C. Zufferey; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285 – 294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

A. Maesani; P. Ramdya; S. Cruchet; K. Gustafson; R. Benton et al. 

Plos Computational Biology. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. e1004577. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577.

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

P. Ramdya; P. Lichocki; S. Cruchet; L. Frisch; W. Tse et al. 

Nature. 2015. Vol. 519, p. 233 – 236. DOI : 10.1038/nature14024.

A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot

L. Daler; S. Mintchev; C. Stefanini; D. Floreano 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 016005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016005.

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

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

R. Pericet-Camara; M. K. Dobrzynski; R. Juston; S. Viollet; R. Leitel et al. 

Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2015. Vol. 12, p. 20150414. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2015.0414.

A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry

F. Colonnier; A. Manecy; R. Juston; H. Mallot; R. Leitel et al. 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 026002. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/026002.

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

A. Vidyasagar; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. Kovac 

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

D. Floreano; R. J. Wood 

Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460 – 466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.

Conference Papers

Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones

N. Dousse; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

2015. SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto, Japon, October 28-30, 2015.

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

J. Shintake; B. E. Schubert; S. Rosset; H. Shea; D. Floreano 

2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097 – 1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.

Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor

S. Mintchev; L. Daler; G. L’Eplattenier; L. Saint-Raymond; D. Floreano 

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.

DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano et al. 

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.

Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage

M. Varga; M. Basiri; G. H. M. Heitz; D. Floreano 

2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669 – 674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.

Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits

J. E. Auerbach; G. H. M. Heitz; P. M. Kornatowski; D. Floreano 

2015. GECCO ’15, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015. p. 743 – 744. DOI : 10.1145/2739482.2764894.

Theses

Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles

M. Basiri / D. Floreano; P. M. U. De Almeida Lima (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Viability evolutionary algorithms and applications to neuroscience and biology

A. Maesani / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

L. Daler / D. Floreano; A. Ijspeert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

2014

Journal Articles

A Collision Resilient Flying Robot

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469 – 509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.

Soft Cells for Programmable Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

J. M. Germann; A. Maesani; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

Soft Robotics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 4, p. 239 – 245. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2014.0005.

Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition

A. Maesani; P. R. Fernando; D. Floreano 

PLOS One. 2014. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. e86831. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0086831.

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

S. Viollet; S. Godiot; R. Leitel; W. Buss; P. Breugnon et al. 

Sensors. 2014. Vol. 14, num. 11, p. 21702 – 21721. DOI : 10.3390/s141121702.

Takashi Gomi and the evolution of embodied AI

D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 2014.  p. 1059712314553807. DOI : 10.1177/1059712314553807.

Selection methods regulate evolution of cooperation in digital evolution

P. Lichocki; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2014. Vol. 11, num. 90, p. 20130743. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2013.0743.

Conference Papers

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.

Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES

A. Maesani; D. Floreano 

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.

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

J. Auerbach; D. Aydin; A. Maesani; P. Kornatowski; T. Cieslewski et al. 

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.

Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines

J. E. Auerbach; C. Fernando; D. Floreano 

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.

Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation

R. Pericet Camara; G. Bahi Vila; J. Lecoeur; D. Floreano 

2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1 – 3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.

Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots

J. M. Germann; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano 

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

J. Germann; J. Auerbach; D. Floreano 

2014. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-26, 2014. p. 220 – 229. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_21.

Reviews

Robotics and Neuroscience

D. Floreano; A. Ijspeert; S. Schaal 

Current Biology. 2014. Vol. 24, p. R910 – R920. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.058.

Theses

Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments

A. Briod / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

From Genes to Organisms : Bioinformatics System Models and Software

T. Schaffter / D. Floreano; M. Affolter (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Soft Cells for Modular Robots

J. M. Germann / D. Floreano; R. Pfeifer (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Book Chapters

Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering

S. Hauert; S. Mitri; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. p. 203 – 217.

Patents

Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; A. Klaptocz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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

A. Briod; J-c. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.

2014.

2013

Journal Articles

Evolving team compositions by agent swapping

P. Lichocki; S. Wischmann; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282 – 298. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2191292.

Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

M. Dorigo; D. Floreano; L. Gambardella; F. Mondada; S. Nolfi et al. 

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60 – 71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano 

RSC Advances. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 46, p. 24671 – 24679. DOI : 10.1039/c3ra44412k.

Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

D. Floreano; R. Pericet Camara; S. Viollet; F. Ruffier; A. Brückner et al. 

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.

Conference Papers

Optic-Flow Based Control of a 46g Quadrotor

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. Workshop on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.

Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

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

T. Stirling; D. Floreano 

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.

Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks

S. Rosati; B. Rimoldi; K. Kruzelecki; A. jimenez-Pacheco; D. Floreano et al. 

2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.

Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots

A. Klaptocz; A. Briod; L. Daler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 1886 – 1892. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696606.

A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive

L. Daler; A. Klaptocz; A. Briod; M. Sitti; D. Floreano 

2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433 – 4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.

Soft Cell Simulator: A tool to study Soft Multi-Cellular Robots

J. M. Germann; A. Maesani; M. Stöckli; D. Floreano 

2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 1300 – 1305. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739644.

Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot

A. Briod; P. M. Kornatowski; A. Klaptocz; A. Garnier; M. Pagnamenta et al. 

2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 3987 – 3992. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696926.

Hyper-flexible 1-D shape sensor

M. Dobrzynski; H. Vanderparre; R. Pericet Camara; G. L’Eplattenier; S. Lacour et al. 

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.

A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion

L. Daler; J. Lecoeur; P. B. Hählen; D. Floreano 

2013. IROS 13, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-6, 2013. p. 1361 – 1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696526.

Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

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.

Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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

S. Mitri; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

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

P. Lichocki / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

VisionHat Development of a wearable collision alert system supported by flexible optic flow sensors

M. K. Dobrzynski / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Book Chapters

Aerial collective systems

J-C. Zufferey; S. Hauert; T. Stirling; S. Leven; J. Roberts et al. 

Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2013. p. 609 – 660.

Posters

A Bee in the Mirror: A Bio-Inspired Model for Vision Based Mid-Air Collision Avoidance

J. Lecoeur 

Bionav – The application of animal navigation techniques in autonomous vehicles, Royal Holloway College, Egham, UK, 11-13 April 2013.

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

International Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, July 14-19, 2013.

Artificial muscles for soft robots

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

Festival de robotique.

2012

Journal Articles

An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots

A. Klaptocz; L. Daler; A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 – 1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

J. M. Germann; M. Dommer; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785 – 798. DOI : 10.1163/156855312X626325.

3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots

J. Roberts; T. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2012. Vol. 33, num. 1-2, p. 5 – 20. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-012-9277-0.

Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor

P. Lichocki; D. Tarapore; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

The American Naturalist. 2012. Vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391 – 400. DOI : 10.1086/664079.

Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila

P. P. Ramdya; T. Schaffter; D. Floreano; R. Benton 

PLOS One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048381.

Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots

S. Wischmann; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

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

M. Dobrzynski; S. Mejri; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011 – 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433.

Vision Tape – a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation

M. Dobrzynski; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

IEEE Sensors Journal. 2012. Vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131 – 1139. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2166760.

Conference Papers

Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection

P. Lichocki; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

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.

Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors

M. Dobrzynski; I. Halasz; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

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.

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.

Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor

P. Lichocki; D. Tarapore; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

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.

Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing

A. Jimenez Pacheco; D. Bouhired; Y. Gasser; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

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.

Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots

T. Stirling; J. Roberts; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions

A. Briod; A. Klaptocz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors

A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Theses

Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery

A. Klaptocz / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. 

Posters

A soft robotic actuator using dielectric minimum energy structures

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; D. Floreano; H. Shea 

2nd International Conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer (EAP) transducers & artificial muscles, Potsdam (Berlin), Germany, May 29-30, 2012.

2011

Journal Articles

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Journal of Field Robotics. 2011. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405 – 423. DOI : 10.1002/rob.20385.

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton’s Rule for the Evolution of Altruism

M. Waibel; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLOS Biology. 2011. Vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615.

Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots

S. Mitri; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2011. Vol. 278, p. 378 – 383. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2010.1407.

Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis

C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Marbach; D. Floreano 

Journal of Computational Science. 2011. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 165 – 177. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.01.007.

GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach; D. Floreano 

Bioinformatics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263 – 2270. DOI : 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr373.

Conference Papers

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.

SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System

W. Karlen; D. Floreano 

2011. BIOSIGNALS 2011 – International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011. p. 132 – 137.

The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

M. Kovac; W. Hraiz; O. Fauria Torrent; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. p. 1503 – 1508. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502.

CURVACE – CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes

R. Pericet Camara; M. Dobrzynski; G. L’Eplattenier; J-C. Zufferey; F. Expert et al. 

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.

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.

Robot Companions for Citizens

P. Dario; P. Verschure; T. Prescott; G. Sandini; R. Cingolani et al. 

2011. FET’11, Budapest, p. 47 – 51. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.017.

Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; J. M. Germann; M. Kovac 

2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.

Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate

S. Hauert; S. Leven; M. Varga; F. Ruini; A. Cangelosi et al. 

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.

The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot

M. Kovač; N. Wassim-Hraiz; O. Fauria; J. C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

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.

The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery

O. Küng; C. Strecha; A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.

Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots

M. Dobrzynski; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

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

Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics

S. Leven / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers

P. Dürr / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots

J. Roberts / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information

T. Stirling / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2011. 

Posters

Vision Tape – a novel class of flexible vision sensor for robots and humans

M. Dobrzynski; G. L’Eplattenier; R. Pericet Camara; D. Floreano 

IEEE Swiss Image and Vision Sensors Workshop 2011 (SIVS 2011), Zurich, Switzerland, September 8, 2011.

Patents

Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye

J. Duparré; A. Brückner; F. Wippermann; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano et al. 

AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.

2011.

2010

Journal Articles

Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10 – 19. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2010.937319.

A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles

M. Kovac; J. M. Germann; C. Hürzeler; R. Siegwart; D. Floreano 

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

W. Karlen; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920 – 926. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2010.2097261.

Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference

D. Marbach; R. J. Prill; T. Schaffter; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano et al. 

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.

Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

M. Kovac; M. Schlegel; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2010. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295 – 306. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4.

Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information

T. Stirling; S. Wischmann; D. Floreano 

Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117 – 144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.

Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection

D. Floreano; L. Keller 

PLOS Biology. 2010. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292.

Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey 

Current Biology. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847 – R849. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.022.

Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies

D. Tarapore; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

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

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles. 2010. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107 – 117. DOI : 10.1260/1756-8293.2.2.107.

Conference Papers

Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments

T. Stirling; D. Floreano 

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

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

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 Swarming for Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, Anchorage, Alaska, May 7, 2010.

Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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

A. Klaptocz; G. Boutinard Rouelle; A. Briod; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System

W. Karlen; S. Cardin; D. Thalmann; D. Floreano 

2010. 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010. p. 6599 – 602. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627127.

Theses

Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics

M. Kovac / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms

S. Hauert / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

Book Chapters

Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering

S. Hauert; S. Mitri; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2010.

Conference Proceedings

Swarm Intelligence. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010

M. Dorigo; M. Birattari; G. Di Caro; R. Doursat; A. Engelbrecht et al. 

2010. 

Posters

Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots

S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

International Workshop on Self-Organized Systems, Zürich, Switzerland, December 9-11.

GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach; K. Manolis; D. Floreano 

3rd annual joint conference on Systems Biology, Regulatory Genomics, and Reverse Engineering Challenges, New York City, USA, November 16-20, 2010.

GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach; K. Manolis; D. Floreano 

All-SystemsX.ch-Day 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-2, 2010.

2009

Journal Articles

Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination

P. Dürr; W. Karlen; J. Guignard; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2009. Vol. 2009, p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.1155/2009/179680.

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201 – 219. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9139-6.

Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2009. Vol. 3, p. 71 – 78. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2008817.

Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation

M. Waibel; L. Keller; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2009. Vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648 – 660. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2008.2011741.

The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests

S. Mitri; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

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.

Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay

S. Hauert; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21 – 32. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-008-9104-9.

Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 102 – 113. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03945.x.

Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods

D. Marbach; T. Schaffter; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Journal of Computational Biology. 2009. Vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229 – 239. DOI : 10.1089/cmb.2008.09TT.

Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 234 – 245. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03944.x.

Conference Papers

How to control MAVs in cluttered environments?

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2009. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St-Louis, October 11-15.

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; X. Raemy; J. Pugh; C. Cianci et al. 

2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59 – 65.

optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.

A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities

M. Kovac; M. Schlegel; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics

J. F. Roberts; T. S. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Methods for Artificial Evolution of Truly Cooperative Robots

L. Keller; D. Floreano 

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.

Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots

S. Hauert; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2009. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009. p. 55 – 61. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982930.

Books

Flying Insects and Robots

 

Berlin: Springer, 2009.

Theses

Adaptive wake and sleep detection for wearable systems

W. Karlen / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

A. Beyeler / D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

The evolution of communication in robot societies

S. Mitri / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Evolutionary reverse engineering of gene networks

D. Marbach / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Book Chapters

Technology and Manufacturing of Ultralight Micro Air Vehicles

A. Klaptocz; J-D. Nicoud 

Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 299 – 316.

A Robotic Platform for Studying the Evolution of Communication

D. Floreano; S. Mitri; J. Hubert 

Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 306.

Active Vision for Goal-Oriented Humanoid Robot Walking

M. Suzuki; T. Gritti; D. Floreano 

Creating Brain-Like Intelligence; Springer-Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 313.

Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication

S. Mitri; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 123 – 134.

Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 73 – 86.

Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot

M. Kovac; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. p. 271 – 284.

2008

Journal Articles

Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay

S. Hauert; L. Winkler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Swarm Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167 – 188. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-008-0013-5.

Enactive Robot Vision

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 2008. Vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122 – 128. DOI : 10.1177/1059712308089183.

Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning

D. Floreano; P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi 

Evolutionary Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47 – 62. DOI : 10.1007/s12065-007-0002-4.

The Age of Analog Networks

C. Mattiussi; D. Marbach; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

AI Magazine. 2008. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63 – . DOI : 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2156.

Conference Papers

Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios

A. Soltoggio; J. A. Bullinaria; C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

2008. Artificial Life XI, Winchester UK, 5-8 August 2008. p. 569 – .

Improving Actigraph Sleep/Wake Classification with Cardio-Respiratory Signals

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

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

M. Kovac; M. Fuchs; A. Guignard; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot

M. Kovac; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2008. 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 2008. p. 41 – 42.

Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots

J. F. Roberts; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.

Optic flow to control small UAVs

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

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.

Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; A. Soltoggio; D. Floreano 

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.

Books

Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies

D. Floreano; C. Mattiussi 

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

Book Chapters

Evolution of Altruistic Robots

D. Floreano; S. Mitri; A. Perez-Uribe; L. Keller 

Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008. p. 232 – 248.

Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; P. Husbands; S. Nolfi 

Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008.

Posters

Scalable Reverse Engineering of Nonlinear Gene Networks

T. Schaffter; D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

Exhibition of the Master projects, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 7, 2008.

Patents

Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.

2008.

Student Projects

Waypoint navigation with a MAV

A. Briod 

2008.

Observation of Insect Collisions

A. Briod 

2008.

2007

Journal Articles

Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots

D. Floreano; S. Mitri; S. Magnenat; L. Keller 

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

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2007. Vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596 – . DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2006.886801.

Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems

D. Roggen; D. Federici; D. Floreano 

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 2007. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61 – 96. DOI : 10.1007/s10710-006-9019-1.

A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot

J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; A. Beyeler; J-D. Nicoud; D. Floreano 

Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671 – 1684. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782227417.

Conference Papers

Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133 – 134.

Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots

D. Floreano; S. Hauert; S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17.

Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight

J. F. Roberts; T. Stirling; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.

Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism

M. Kovac; G. Savioz; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. Srinivasan et al. 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 61 – 62.

Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks

D. Marbach; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

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

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69 – 70.

A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light

M. Kovac; A. Guignard; J-D. Nicoud; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Adaptive Sleep/Wake Classification Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals for Wearable Devices

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2007. Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2007, Montreal, 27.-30.11.2007. p. 203 – 206. DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463344.

Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems

A. Soltoggio; P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

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.

Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters

C. Mattiussi; P. Dürr; D. Floreano 

2007. GECCO 2007, University College, London, 2007. p. 1304 – . DOI : 10.1145/1276958.1277205.

3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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.

Theses

Enactive robot vision

M. Suzuki / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. 

Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants

M. Waibel / D. Floreano; L. Keller (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2007. 

Conference Proceedings

International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Book of Abstracts

D. Floreano; M. Srinivasan; C. Ellington; J-C. Zufferey 

2007. International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots.

Posters

Pheromone-based Swarming for Position-less MAVs

S. Hauert; L. Winkler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17 August.

Self Deploying Microglider

M. Kovac; M. Fuchs; G. Savioz; A. Guignard; J-D. Nicoud et al. 

Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17.8.2007.

A Low-cost, Safe and Easy-to-Use Flying Platform for Outdoor Robotic Research and Education

S. Leven; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007.

A 1.5g SMA actuated Microglider looking for the Light

M. Kovac; A. Guignard; J-D. Nicoud; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

EPFL.

Bioinspired Vision-based Microflyers

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

EPFL.

Optic-flow-based Altitude and Forward Speed Regulation using Stereotypical Lateral Movements

A. Beyeler; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, August 12-17.

Wearable Human Sleep/Wake Classification

W. Karlen; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

BMES Annual Chapter Conference, Lausanne, 31.10.2007.

Patents

Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

US2007011111; US7370019.

2007.

2006

Journal Articles

Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

M. Waibel; D. Floreano; S. Magnenat; L. Keller 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2006. Vol. 273, p. 1815 – 23. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513.

Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

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

D. Floreano; Y. Epars; J-C. Zufferey; C. Mattiussi 

International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005 – 1024. DOI : 10.1002/int.20173.

Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships

J-C. Zufferey; A. Guanella; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

Autonomous Robots. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243 – 254. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-006-9718-8.

Conference Papers

Active Vision for Neural Development and Landmark Navigation

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

2006. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 9-14 July 2006. p. 247 – 248.

Influence of the level of polyandry and genetic architecture on division of labour

D. Tarapore; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

2006. The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, June 3-7, 2006. p. 358 – 364.

Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving

M. Suzuki; J. van der Blij; D. Floreano 

2006. The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 March 2006. p. 153 – .

A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation

J-C. Zufferey; A. Klaptocz; A. Beyeler; J-D. Nicoud; D. Floreano 

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.

Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

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.

Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers

A. Beyeler; C. Mattiussi; J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836 – 2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.

Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots

D. Floreano; M. Suzuki 

2006. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006. p. 10 – .

Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding

P. Dürr; C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2006. 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006. p. 671 – . DOI : 10.1007/11844297_68.

Reviews

Trends in Dynamic and Embodied Cognition

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano 

International Neural Network Society Newsletter. 2006. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 9 – .

Conference Proceedings

Artificial Life X

L. M. Rocha; L. S. Yaeger; M. A. Bedeau; D. Floreano; R. L. Goldstone et al. 

2006. Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.

Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices

A. Ijspeert; J. Buchli; A. Selverston; M. Rabinovich; M. Hasler et al. 

2006. EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006.

2005

Journal Articles

Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots

D. Floreano; M. Suzuki; C. Mattiussi 

Evolutionary Computation. 2005. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527 – . DOI : 10.1162/106365605774666912.

The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics

F. Mondada; L. Gambardella; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo 

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

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; J-D. Nicoud 

Artificial Life. 2005. Vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121 – 138. DOI : 10.1162/1064546053278900.

The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano; E. A. Di Paolo 

Neural Networks. 2005. Vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656 – . DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.043.

The SWARM-BOTS Project

M. Dorigo; E. Tuci; F. Mondada; S. Nolfi; J-L. Deneubourg et al. 

Künstliche Intelligenz. 2005.  p. 32 – 35.

Conference Papers

Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots

B. von Haller; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano 

2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 189 – 199. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_20.

Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2005. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2005), Barcelona, 18-22 April. p. 2594 – 2599. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504.

Constraints on Body Movement during Visual Development Affect Behavior of Evolutionary Robots

M. Suzuki; D. Floreano; E. A. Di Paolo 

2005. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, 31 July-4 August 2005. p. 2778 – . DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556365.

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; A. Guignard; S. Magnenat; C. Studer et al. 

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

J-C. Zufferey / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks

C. Mattiussi / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

Multi-cellular reconfigurable circuits : evolution, morphogenesis and learning

D. Roggen / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2005. 

Posters

Bio-inspired Indoor Microflyers

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, 9-14 July.

2004

Journal Articles

Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot

M. Dorigo; V. Trianni; E. Sahin; R. Groß; T. H. Labella et al. 

Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223 – 245. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3.

SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept

F. Mondada; G. C. Pettinaro; A. Guignard; I. Kwee; D. Floreano et al. 

Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193 – 221. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c.

Machine Self-Evolution

D. Floreano; F. Mondada; A. Perez-Uribe; D. Roggen 

YLEM journal. 2004. Vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4 – 10.

Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes

C. Mattiussi; M. Waibel; D. Floreano 

Evolutionary Computation. 2004. Vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495 – . DOI : 10.1162/1063656043138923.

Coevolution of active vision and feature selection

D. Floreano; T. Kato; D. Marocco; E. Sauser 

Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218 – . DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.

Conference Papers

Connecting Transistors and Proteins

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 9 – 14.

Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2004. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2004), Seattle, 24-26 June. p. 30 – 37.

The SWARM-BOTS project

M. Dorigo; E. Tuci; R. Groß; V. Trianni; T. H. Labella et al. 

2004. Swarm Robotics (SAB’2004), Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17. p. 31 – 44. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4.

Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics

F. Mondada; M. Bonani; S. Magnenat; A. Guignard; D. Floreano et al. 

2004. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14. p. 53 – 60.

Book Chapters

Evolution of Embodied Intelligence

D. Floreano; F. Mondada; A. Perez-Uribe; D. Roggen 

Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004. p. 293 – 311.

Conference Proceedings

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation – GECCO 2004

K. Deb; R. Poli; W. Banzhaf; -G. Beyer; E. Burke et al. 

2004. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Reports

Hardware morphogenetic developmental system

D. Roggen; D. Floreano 

2004

Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

2004

Posters

Optic-flow-based Navigation for Ultralight Indoor Aircraft

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano 

Insect Sensors and Robotics, Brisbane, Australia, 23-26 August 2004.

Patents

Spiking neural network device

D. Floreano 

AU2002338754; WO2004027704.

2004.

2003

Journal Articles

Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize

S. Nolfi; J-L. Deneubourg; D. Floreano; L. M. Gambardella; F. Mondada et al. 

Ercim News. 2003. num. 53, p. 25 – 26.

Conference Papers

Effects of group composition and level of selection in the evolution of cooperation in artificial ants

A. Perez-Uribe; D. Floreano; L. Keller 

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

D. Floreano; J-C. Zufferey; C. Mattiussi 

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

A. Tyrrell; E. Sanchez; D. Floreano; G. Tempesti; D. Mange et al. 

2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 129 – 140. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_12.

Hardware spiking neural network with run-time reconfigurable connectivity in an autonomous robot

D. Roggen; S. Hofmann; Y. Thoma; D. Floreano 

2003. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 9-11. p. 189 – 198. DOI : 10.1109/EH.2003.1217666.

Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs

J. Blynel; D. Floreano 

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.

Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection

D. Floreano 

2003. European Cognitive Science Conference, Osnabrück, Germany, 10-13 September. DOI : 10.4324/9781315782362-9.

A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit

D. Roggen; D. Floreano; C. Mattiussi 

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.

Vision-based Navigation from Wheels to Wings

J-C. Zufferey; A. Beyeler; D. Floreano 

2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 2968 – 2973. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249322.

SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation

F. Mondada; A. Guignard; M. Bonani; D. Bär; M. Lauria et al. 

2003. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 1626 – 1631. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1248877.

Reports

Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation

C. Mattiussi; D. Floreano 

2003

2002

Journal Articles

Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2002. Vol. 6, num. 1, p. 31 – 37. DOI : 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01812-X.

Conference Papers

SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots

E. Sahin; T. Labella; V. Trianni; J-L. Deneubourg; P. Rasse et al. 

2002. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. p. 145 – 150. DOI : 10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1173259.

Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems

D. Marocco; D. Floreano 

2002. The Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 5 – 9 August. p. 247 – .

Evolutionary Bits’n’Spikes

D. Floreano; N. Schoeni; G. Caprari; J. Blynel 

2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December.

SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities

F. Mondada; G. C. Pettinaro; I. Kwee; A. Guignard; D. Floreano et al. 

2002. Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13. p. 11 – 22.

Levels of Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior in Evolutionary Neural Controllers

J. Blynel; D. Floreano 

2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation on Adaptive Behavior (SAB’2002), Edinburgh, UK, 4 – 9 – 11 August.

Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots

J-C. Zufferey; D. Floreano; M. van Leeuwen; T. Merenda 

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

G. C. Pettinaro; I. Kwee; L. Gambardella; F. Mondada; D. Floreano et al. 

2002. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR’2002), Stockholm, Sweden, October 7-11. p. 71 – 76.

Books

Manuale sulle Reti Neurali

D. Floreano; C. Mattiussi 

Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.

Book Chapters

Trends in Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano 

Proceedings of the 2002 Interdisciplinary College; Bremen: Arendtap Publishing, 2002. p. 314 – 333.

Ago Ergo Sum

D. Floreano 

Consciousness Evolving; Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2002. p. 181 – 204.

Conference Proceedings

From Animals to Animats 7

J. Hallam; D. Floreano; G. Hayes; J. Meyer 

2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.

2001

Journal Articles

Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

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

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

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

C. De Lillo; D. Floreano; F. Antinucci 

Animal Cognition. 2001. Vol. 4, p. 61 – 68. DOI : 10.1007/s100710100092.

Evolution of Plastic Control Networks

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Autonomous Robots. 2001. Vol. 11, num. 3, p. 311 – 317. DOI : 10.1023/A:1012459627968.

Conference Papers

An Evolutionary Active-Vision System

T. Kato; D. Floreano 

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

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Book Chapters

Co-Evolution and Ontogenetic Change in Competing Robots

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi; F. Mondada 

Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents; Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2001.

Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-based Robots

D. Floreano; C. Mattiussi 

Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life; Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001. p. 38 – 61.

2000

Journal Articles

Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

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

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Neural Networks. 2000. Vol. 13, num. 4-5, p. 431 – 443. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(00)00032-0.

Evolutionary robotics: developing robots through artificial evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

ERCIM News. 2000. Vol. 42, p. 12 – 13.

Conference Papers

Evolutionary On-Line Self-Organization of Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

2000. 5th International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB’2000), Oita University, Japan,

Artificial Evolution of Robust Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

2000. 3rd International Conference on Human and Computer (HC’2000), Aizu, Japan,

Evolutionary Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

2000. 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2000). p. 241 – 251. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-46406-9_24.

Evolutionary Robotics: Coping with Environmental Change

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

2000. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 8 – 12.

Theses

Evolutionary adaptive robots : artificial evolution of adaptation mechanisms for autonomous agents

J. Urzelai / D. Floreano (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2000. 

Book Chapters

Evolutionary Robotics: The Next Generation

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Evolutionary Robotics III; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 2000.

Conference Proceedings

From Animals to Animats 6

J. Meyer; A. Berthoz; D. Floreano; H. Roitblat; S. Wilson 

2000. 6th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.

1999

Journal Articles

Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation

A. Arleo; J. d. R. Millán; D. Floreano 

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 1999. Vol. 15, num. 6, p. 990 – 1000. DOI : 10.1109/70.817664.

Learning and Evolution

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

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

A. Ijspeert 

1999. 5th European Conference, ECAL’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13–17, 1999. p. 195 – 204. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_26.

Evolution of Adaptive-Synapse Controllers

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

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

A. Billard; A. Ijspeert; A. Martinoli 

1999. 5th European Conference, ECAL’99, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13–17, 1999. p. 596 – 605. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_79.

Incremental Evolution with Minimal Resources

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

1999. First International Khepera Workshop (IKW’1999).

A probabilistic model for understanding and comparing collective aggregation mechanisms

A. Martinoli; A. Ijspeert; L. Gambardella; D. Floreano; J. Nicoud et al. 

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

D. Floreano; J. Nicoud; F. Mondada 

1999. 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’99).

1998

Journal Articles

Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do ‘arm races’ arise in artificial evolution?

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

Artificial Life. 1998. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 311 – 335. DOI : 10.1162/106454698568620.

Incremental Robot Shaping

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo; M. Colombetti 

Connection Science. 1998. Vol. 10, p. 341 – 360. DOI : 10.1080/095400998116486.

Evolution, Modularity, and Emergence in Autonomous Robots

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano 

1998. 

Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors

J. Kay; D. Floreano; W. Phillips 

Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 117 – 140. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(97)00110-X.

Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

Neural Networks. 1998. Vol. 11, num. 7-8, p. 1461 – 1478. DOI : 10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00082-3.

Conference Papers

Incremental Robot Shaping

J. Urzelai; D. Floreano; M. Dorigo; M. Colombetti 

1998. 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming.

Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi; F. Mondada 

1998. 5th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1998), Zurich, Switzerland, August 17-21. p. 515 – 524.

Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

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

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano 

1998. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT’1998).

Book Chapters

Evolutionary Robotics in Artificial Life and Behavior Engineering

D. Floreano 

Evolutionary Robotics II; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1998.

Design, Control, and Applications of Autonomous Mobile Robots

D. Floreano; J. Godjevac; A. Martinoli; F. Mondada; J. Nicoud 

Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Agents; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. p. 159 – 186.

Evolution and learning in Autonomous Robotic Agents

D. Floreano; J. Urzelai 

Bio-inspired Computing Systems; Lausanne: PPUR, 1998.

1997

Conference Papers

God Save the Red Queen! Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi 

1997. 2nd Conference on Genetic Programming.

Adaptive Behavior in Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; S. Nolfi 

1997. 4th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’1997).

Reviews

Engineering Adaptive Behavior

D. Floreano 

Adaptive Behavior. 1997. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 407 – 416. DOI : 10.1177/105971239700500309.

An Internal Teacher for Neural Computation

D. Floreano 

Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1997. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 687 – 688. DOI : 10.1017/S0140525X97261601.

Book Chapters

Evolutionary Mobile Robotics

D. Floreano 

Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science; Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.

Reducing Human Design and Increasing Adaptivity in Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano 

Evolutionary Robotics I; Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1997.

Media

Interview on Evolutionary Robotics

D. Floreano; M. Kelly; G. Robertson 

1997.

1996

Journal Articles

Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

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

Evolving fast-learning neural controllers for a mobile robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1996. 24th Conference of Neurobiology, Goettingen,

Evolution of Plastic Neurocontrollers for Situated Agents

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1996. 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1996), Cape Cod, Massachusetts, September 9-13. p. 402 – 410.

Evolutionary Re-Adaptation of Neurocontrollers in Changing Environments

D. Floreano 

1996. Intelligent Technologies.

Extraction of Coherent Information from Non-Overlapping Receptive Fields

D. Floreano 

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.

1995

Journal Articles

A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance

D. Floreano; W. Phillips; J. Kay 

Perception. 1995. Vol. 24S, p. 22.

Robotica Evolutiva: metodologia e prospettive

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano; O. Miglino; F. Mondada 

Sistemi Intelligenti. 1995. Vol. VII, num. 2, p. 203 – 221.

Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots

F. Mondada; D. Floreano 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 1995. Vol. 16, num. 2-4, p. 183 – 195. DOI : 10.1016/0921-8890(96)81008-6.

Theses

Neuroetologia Artificiale: alla ricerca delle basi adattive dell’intelligenza

D. Floreano 

University of Trieste, 1995. 

Book Chapters

Evolution and Mobile Autonomous Robotics

F. Mondada; D. Floreano 

Towards Evolvable Hardware, The Evolutionary Engineering Approach; Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995. p. 221 – 249.

1994

Conference Papers

How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics

S. Nolfi; D. Floreano; O. Miglino; F. Mondada 

1994. 4th International Workshop on Artificial Life, Cambridge, p. 190 – 197.

Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1994. From Perception to Action Conference (PERAC’1994).

Conception évolutionniste de réseaux de neurones pour le contrôle de robots mobiles

F. Mondada; D. Floreano 

1994. Journées Neurosciences et Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Chamonix, France, 2-5 mai 2004.

Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic Evolution of a Neural Network Driven Robot

D. Floreano; F. Mondada 

1994. 3rd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1994), Brighton, England, August 8-12. p. 421 – 430.

Reports

Reti neurali artificiali: fondamenti tecnici e teorici

D. Floreano 

1994

1993

Journal Articles

Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network

D. Floreano; D. Parisi; F. Antinucci; F. Natale 

Cognitive Systems. 1993. Vol. 3, p. 331 – 349.

Conference Papers

Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks

D. Floreano 

1993. Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’1992).

Patterns of Interactions in Shared Environments

D. Floreano 

1993. 2nd European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL’1993).

Anticipatory Tracking of a Moving Object

D. Floreano 

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

D. Parisi; D. Floreano 

1992. First Workshop on Neural Networks and Speech Processing.

Reports

Internal Prediction and Environment Models: An application to the development of language

D. Floreano; D. Parisi 

1992

1991

Conference Papers

Emergent complex behaviours in ecosystems of neural networks

D. Floreano; O. Miglino; D. Parisi 

1991. Parallel Architectures and Neural Networks.

Reports

Symmetry Detection with a Neural Network

D. Floreano; L. Zang; W. Gerbino 

1991