2023
Journal Articles
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon
Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2023-06-08. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2023.3271203.Conference Papers
Theses
Resilient drones with morphing wings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.2022
Journal Articles
What we look for at Science Robotics
Science Robotics. 2022-10-26. Vol. 7, num. 71, p. eade5834. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ade5834.Conference Papers
VIO-UWB-Based Collaborative Localization and Dense Scene Reconstruction within Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems
2022-01-01. 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, Guilin, PEOPLES R CHINA, Jul 09-11, 2022. p. 87-94. DOI : 10.1109/ICARM54641.2022.9959470.Books
Theses
Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.2021
Journal Articles
Conference Papers

Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics
2021-08-08. 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.Theses
Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.2020
Journal Articles
Conference Papers
Theses
Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.Patents
Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump
WO2020233791.
2020.2019
Journal Articles
Conference Papers
Theses
Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Patents
STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS
US2020230361; EP3678724; CN111050835; WO2019048328; EP3449965.
2019-03-14.Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system
US2021247758; WO2019244112; GB2574886; GB201810285.
2019.Student Projects
Realistic Simulation Environment for Obstacle Avoidance of Quadcopter Swarms
2019-05-09.2018
Journal Articles
Conference Papers
Patents
Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device
US10860014; US2019258239; EP3509801; WO2018047102.
2018.2017
Journal Articles
Radio Resource Management Optimization of Flexible Satellite Payloads for DVB-S2 Systems
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 2017. p. 1-15. DOI : 10.1109/TBC.2017.2755263.Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles
Journal of Field Robotics. 2017. Vol. 35, num. 2, p. 187-201. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21733.Disentangling constraints using viability evolution principles in integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies
Scientific Reports. 2017. Vol. 7, p. 235. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-00266-w.Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248-1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits
Nature Communications. 2017. Vol. 8, p. 14494. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms14494.Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones
Interface Focus. 2017. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 20160092. DOI : 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0092.Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358-365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.Conference Papers
A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202155.Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots
2017. Living Machines 2017, Palo Alto, California, USA, July 25-28, 2017. p. 497-508. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_42.Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. p. 4197-4202. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206281.An origami-inspired cargo drone
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855-6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.One Constraint at a Time: Using Viability Principles in Integrative Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies
2017. 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, San Francisco, CA, FEB 15-19, 2014. p. 289A-289A. DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.1567.Foldable Drones: from Biology to Technology
2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203-1-1016203-6. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.Theses
Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.Patents
Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping
US11065771; US2019047157; WO2017145103.
2017.Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability
PL3439955; EP3439955; US10252795; EP3439955; SG11201808868Q; US2017291697; WO2017175199.
2017.Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same
US10113537; US2017292502; WO2017175174.
2017.2016
Journal Articles
Investigation of Collective Behaviour and Electrocommunication in the Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic Robotic Dummy Fish
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2016. Vol. 11, num. 6, p. 066009. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/11/6/066009.Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones
Artificial Life And Robotics. 2016. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 308-316. DOI : 10.1007/s10015-016-0302-9.Comparative Study of Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation of VTOL Aerial Robots
Ieee Transactions On Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems. 2016. Vol. 46, num. 10, p. 1352-1363. DOI : 10.1109/Tsmc.2015.2503396.Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.Adaptive Morphology: A Design Principle for Multimodal and Multifunctional Robots
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2016. Vol. 23, num. 3, p. 42-54. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2016.2580593.Soft compliant gripper for safe manipulation of extremely fragile objects
SPIE Newsroom. 2016. DOI : 10.1117/2.1201603.006409.On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2016. Vol. 1, num. 2, p. 820-827. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2527833.A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments
Autonomous Robots. 2016. Vol. 40, p. 789–803. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-015-9494-4.Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 2, p. 231-238. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.Memetic Viability Evolution for Constrained Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2016. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 125-144. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2015.2428292.Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2016. Vol. 65, num. 3, p. 1690-1700. DOI : 10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819.Conference Papers
Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2016. 15th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Flagstaff, AZ, DEC 09-12, 2011. p. 21-39. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-29363-9_2.A novel fluid driven, foldable joint for Minimally Invasive Surgery
2016. 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), SINGAPORE, JUN 26-29, 2016. p. 335-340. DOI : 10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523648.Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
2016. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14. p. 4957-4962. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759728.A Pocket Sized Foldable Quadcopter for Situational Awareness and Reconnaissance
2016. International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2016), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-27th, 2016. p. 396-401. DOI : 10.1109/SSRR.2016.7784333.A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings
2016. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016. p. 1576-1581. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759255.Evolution in Cognition 2016 Chairs’ Welcome
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1043-1045. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931670.Darwinian Dynamics of Embodied Chaotic Exploration
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1053-1056. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931673.Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1061-1064. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931675.The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 821-828. DOI : 10.1145/2908812.2908886.Theses
Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Book Chapters
Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 2035-2068.Patents
Non-invasive drawable electrode for neuromuscular electrical stimulation and biological signal sensing
ES2935603; EP3191171; US11147492; US2017273590; EP3191171; WO2016038545.
2016.Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle
US9446845; WO2016066790; US2016122016.
2016.Neuroprosthetic System Restoring Upper Limb Function Through Coordinated Electrical Stimulation
US10046161; US2016303369; EP3060113; WO2015059612.
2016.2015
Journal Articles
Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns
Plos Computational Biology. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. e1004577. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577.An artificial elementary eye with optic flow detection and compositional properties
Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2015. Vol. 12, p. 20150414. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2015.0414.Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285-294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones
Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460-466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 026002. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/026002.Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 016005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016005.Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila
Nature. 2015. Vol. 519, p. 233-236. DOI : 10.1038/nature14024.A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997-2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.Rollable Multisegment Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures for a Deployable Microsatellite Gripper
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 438. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2329367.Conference Papers
Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones
2015. SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics, Kyoto, Japon, October 28-30, 2015.Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy
2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097-1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits
2015. GECCO ’15, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015. p. 743-744. DOI : 10.1145/2739482.2764894.Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage
2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669-674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.Foldable and Self-Deployable Pocket Sized Quadrotor
2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Seattle, Washington, USA, May 26-30, 2015. p. 2190-2195. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139488.DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg
2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. p. 94301S. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.Theses
Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Viability evolutionary algorithms and applications to neuroscience and biology
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.2014
Journal Articles
Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye
Sensors. 2014. Vol. 14, num. 11, p. 21702-21721. DOI : 10.3390/s141121702.Takashi Gomi and the evolution of embodied AI
Adaptive Behavior. 2014. p. 1059712314553807. DOI : 10.1177/1059712314553807.Soft Cells for Programmable Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules
Soft Robotics. 2014. Vol. 1, num. 4, p. 239-245. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2014.0005.Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition
PLOS One. 2014. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. e86831. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0086831.Selection methods regulate evolution of cooperation in digital evolution
Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2014. Vol. 11, num. 90, p. 20130743. DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2013.0743.A Collision Resilient Flying Robot
Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469-509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.Conference Papers
Curved artificial compound-eyes for autonomous navigation
2014. Micro-Optics, Brussels, Belgium, APR 14-16, 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2052710.RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution
2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 136-137. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch022.Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines
2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 465-472. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch076.Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation
2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1-3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.Viability Principles for Constrained Optimization Using a (1+1)-CMA-ES
2014. 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. p. 272-281. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-10762-2_27.Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots
2014. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 14-18, 2014. p. 3933-3938. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943115.Programmable Self-assembly with Chained Soft Cells: An Algorithm to Fold into 2-D Shapes
2014. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-26, 2014. p. 220-229. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_21.Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles
2014. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China, May 31 – June 7, 2014. p. 4729-4734. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907551.Reviews
Robotics and Neuroscience
Current Biology. 2014. Vol. 24, p. R910-R920. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.058.Theses
Soft Cells for Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.From Genes to Organisms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Book Chapters
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. p. 203-217.Patents
Vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle
CN108137152; ES2767689; EP3347268; AU2016319276; PL3024726; EP3347268; CN108137152; AU2016319276; EP3024726; CN105164015; JP6224234; ES2633217; US9725170; EP2813428; US9611032; WO2017042354; JP2016523759; EP3024726; US2016001875; US2015360776; CN105164015; AU2014280222; WO2014198774; EP2813428.
2014.Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device
US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.
2014.2013
Journal Articles
Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)
RSC Advances. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 46, p. 24671-24679. DOI : 10.1039/c3ra44412k.Miniature curved artificial compound eyes
PNAS. 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332-9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60-71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.Evolving team compositions by agent swapping
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282-298. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2191292.Conference Papers
Soft Cell Simulator: A tool to study Soft Multi-Cellular Robots
2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 1300-1305. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739644.Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.Optic-Flow Based Control of a 46g Quadrotor
2013. Workshop on Vision-based Closed-Loop Control and Navigation of Micro Helicopters in GPS-denied Environments, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2013.Euler Spring Collision Protection for Flying Robots
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 1886-1892. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696606.A Flying Robot with Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
2013. IROS 13, Tokyo, Japan, November 3-6, 2013. p. 1361-1366. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696526.Contact-based navigation for an autonomous flying robot
2013. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 3-7, 2013. p. 3987-3992. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696926.Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks
2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 2013.Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures
2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. p. 86872V. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. p. 281-293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 5-18. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_1.Representation of Vehicle Dynamics in Haptic Teleoperation of Aerial Robots
2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, May 6-10, 2013. p. 1485-1491. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630767.Hyper-flexible 1-D shape sensor
2013. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Barcelona, Spain, June 16-20, 2013. p. 1899-1902. DOI : 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627163.A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive
2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433-4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots
2013. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 281–293. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_21.Reviews
Using robots to understand social behavior
Biological Reviews. 2013. num. 88, p. 31-39. DOI : 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00236.x.Theses
VisionHat Development of a wearable collision alert system supported by flexible optic flow sensors
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.Book Chapters
Aerial collective systems
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2013. p. 609-660.Posters
Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping
International Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, July 14-19, 2013.A Bee in the Mirror: A Bio-Inspired Model for Vision Based Mid-Air Collision Avoidance
Bionav – The application of animal navigation techniques in autonomous vehicles, Royal Holloway College, Egham, UK, 11-13 April 2013.Artificial muscles for soft robots
Festival de robotique.2012
Journal Articles
Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila
PLOS One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048381.Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011-2018. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433.An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 -1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots
PNAS. 2012. Vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864-868. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1104267109.Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor
The American Naturalist. 2012. Vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391-400. DOI : 10.1086/664079.An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots
Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785-798. DOI : 10.1163/156855312X626325.Vision Tape – a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2012. Vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131-1139. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2166760.3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots
Autonomous Robots. 2012. Vol. 33, num. 1-2, p. 5-20. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-012-9277-0.Conference Papers
Linear Programming Based Routing Design for a Positive Compartmental System with Nonlinear Flow Rates and Piecewise Constant Capacity Constraints
2012. American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, p. 4004-4009. DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2012.6315610.A scalable electro-magnetic communication system for underwater swarms
2012. 9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC), Arenzano (GE), Italy, September 19-21, 2012. p. 97-102. DOI : 10.3182/20120919-3-IT-2046.00017.Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor
2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 561-562.Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection
2012. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, July 19-22, 2012. p. 530-531.Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles
2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.. p. 4737-4742. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608.Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing
2012. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, December 3-7, 2012. p. 1591-1596. DOI : 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477823.Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 4641-4647. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224987.Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors
2012. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012. p. 4810-4815. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385505.The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions
2012. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, July 1-4, 2012. p. 569-574. DOI : 10.1109/ICCME.2012.6275674.Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors
2012. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012. p. 3956-3961. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225011.Theses
Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.Posters
A soft robotic actuator using dielectric minimum energy structures
2nd International Conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer (EAP) transducers & artificial muscles, Potsdam (Berlin), Germany, May 29-30, 2012.2011
Journal Articles
Enhancing the Specular Effect of Metallic Color Prints by Reducing the Use of Yellow Ink
Journal Of Imaging Science And Technology. 2011. Vol. 55, num. 6, p. 060506-1-060506-9. DOI : 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2011.55.6.060506.Complementary Function and Integrated Wiring of the Evolutionarily Distinct Drosophila Olfactory Subsystems
Journal Of Neuroscience. 2011. Vol. 31, p. 13357-13375. DOI : 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2360-11.2011.GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
Bioinformatics. 2011. Vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263-2270. DOI : 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr373.A Quantitative Test of Hamilton’s Rule for the Evolution of Altruism
PLOS Biology. 2011. Vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615.Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis
Journal of Computational Science. 2011. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 165-177. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.01.007.Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems
Journal of Field Robotics. 2011. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405-423. DOI : 10.1002/rob.20385.Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2011. Vol. 278, p. 378-383. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2010.1407.The Ethical Landscape of Robotics
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2011. Vol. 18, num. 1, p. 39-50. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2011.940275.Conference Papers
myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems
2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.
2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.Robot Companions for Citizens
2011. FET’11, Budapest, p. 47-51. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.017.CURVACE – CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes
2011. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, May 4-6, 2011. p. 308-309. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.040.The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings
2011. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. p. 1503-1508. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181502.Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2011), San Francisco, September 25-30, 2011. p. 5015-5020. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095129.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery
2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 1913-1918. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048425.myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems
2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.De l’évolution artificielle à l’homme-machine : la science en proie à la fiction
2011. L’homme-machine et ses avatars, entre science, philosophie et littérature, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 22-23, 2008.SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System
2011. BIOSIGNALS 2011 – International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011. p. 132-137.Theses
Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Posters
Vision Tape – a novel class of flexible vision sensor for robots and humans
IEEE Swiss Image and Vision Sensors Workshop 2011 (SIVS 2011), Zurich, Switzerland, September 8, 2011.Patents
Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye
AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.
2011.2010
Journal Articles
Hyperelastic pressure sensing with a liquid-embedded elastomer
Journal Of Micromechanics And Microengineering. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 12, p. 125029. DOI : 10.1088/0960-1317/20/12/125029.Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 1-12. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045003.Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2010. Vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920-926. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2010.2097261.Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude
Current Biology. 2010. Vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847-R849. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.022.Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles. 2010. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107-117. DOI : 10.1260/1756-8293.2.2.107.Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10-19. DOI : 10.1109/MCI.2010.937319.Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference
PNAS. 2010. Vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286-6291. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0913357107.A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77-91. DOI : 10.1007/s12213-010-0026-1.Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection
PLOS Biology. 2010. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information
Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117-144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2010. Vol. 64, p. 675-684. DOI : 10.1007/s00265-009-0885-4.Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot
Autonomous Robots. 2010. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295-306. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9173-4.Conference Papers
Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments
2010. 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10th 2010. p. 562-563. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_61.Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System
2010. 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 – September 4, 2010. p. 6599-602. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627127.Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on Network Science and Systems Issues in Multi-Robot Autonomy, Anchorage, Alaska, May 7, 2010.Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010). p. 15-20. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509421.Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3329-3334. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509273.An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, US, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3349-3354. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338.Reviews
Evolving olfactory systems on the fly
Trends In Genetics. 2010. Vol. 26, p. 307-316. DOI : 10.1016/j.tig.2010.04.004.Theses
Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.Book Chapters
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2010.Conference Proceedings
Swarm Intelligence. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010
2010.Reports
Review of Light-weight Payloads for MAVs and Experiments with Thermopiles
2010
Numerical Integration of SDEs: A Short Tutorial
2010
Posters
GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
3rd annual joint conference on Systems Biology, Regulatory Genomics, and Reverse Engineering Challenges, New York City, USA, November 16-20, 2010.GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
All-SystemsX.ch-Day 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-2, 2010.Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
International Workshop on Self-Organized Systems, Zürich, Switzerland, December 9-11.2009
Journal Articles
Attentive Classification
International Journal of Applied Artifical Intelligence in Engineering System. 2009. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-66.Do animat models always need a biological target organism?
Adaptive Behavior. 2009. Vol. 17, num. 4, p. 343-345. DOI : 10.1177/1059712309340861.The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests
PNAS. 2009. Vol. 106, num. 37, p. 15786-15790. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0903152106.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201-219. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-009-9139-6.Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications. 2009. Vol. 2009, p. 1-10. DOI : 10.1155/2009/179680.Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods
Journal of Computational Biology. 2009. Vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229-239. DOI : 10.1089/cmb.2008.09TT.Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 102-113. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03945.x.Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 2009. Vol. 3, p. 71-78. DOI : 10.1109/TBCAS.2008.2008817.Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay
Autonomous Robots. 2009. Vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-008-9104-9.Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2009. Vol. 1158, p. 234-245. DOI : 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03944.x.Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2009. Vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648-660. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2008.2011741.Conference Papers
Evolving Teams of Cooperating Agents for Real-Time Strategy Game
2009. 1st European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games (EvoGAMES-2009), Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009. p. 333-342. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_37.Approximating geometric crossover in semantic space
2009. 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO-2009), Montreal, Québec, Canada, July 8-12, 2009. p. 987-994. DOI : 10.1145/1569901.1570036.How to control MAVs in cluttered environments?
2009. Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St-Louis, October 11-15.optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow
2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009), St. Louis, October 10-15, 2009. p. 3659-3664. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354263.A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs
2009. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 2873-2878. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465.A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 583-588. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005.Novelty of Behaviour as a Basis for the Neuro-evolution of Operant Reward Learning
2009. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montréal Québec,Canada, July 8-12, 2009. p. 169–176. DOI : 10.1145/1569901.1569925.The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59-65.Methods for Artificial Evolution of Truly Cooperative Robots
2009. International Workshop on Artificial Neural Network 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. p. 768-772. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_96.Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots
2009. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009. p. 55-61. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982930.Books
Flying Insects and Robots
Berlin: Springer, 2009.Theses
The evolution of communication in robot societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Evolutionary reverse engineering of gene networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Adaptive wake and sleep detection for wearable systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Book Chapters
Active Vision for Goal-Oriented Humanoid Robot Walking
Creating Brain-Like Intelligence; Springer-Verlag, 2009. p. 303-313.A Robotic Platform for Studying the Evolution of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 303-306.Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. p. 271-284.Motion Detection Chips for Robotic Platform
Flying Insects and Robots; Springer, 2009. p. 101-114.Technology and Manufacturing of Ultralight Micro Air Vehicles
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 299-316.Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 73-86.Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 123-134.Reports
Stochastic Simulations for DREAM4
2009
2008
Journal Articles
Social Behavior: From Cooperation to Language
Biological Theory. 2008. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 99-102. DOI : 10.1162/biot.2008.3.2.99.Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay
Swarm Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167-188. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-008-0013-5.The Age of Analog Networks
AI Magazine. 2008. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63–76. DOI : 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2156.Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning
Evolutionary Intelligence. 2008. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-62. DOI : 10.1007/s12065-007-0002-4.Enactive Robot Vision
Adaptive Behavior. 2008. Vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122-128. DOI : 10.1177/1059712308089183.Conference Papers
An automatic parameter extraction method for the 7x50m Stroke Efficiency Test
2008. Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, 2008. ICPCA 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, October 6-8, 2008. DOI : 10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783628.A time-of-travel motion detection chip for steering autonomous robots
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, 22 September 2008.Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs
2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.Optic flow to control small UAVs
2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 22 September 2008.Ishtar: a flexible and lightweight software for remote data access
2008. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference EMAV08, Braunschweig, Germany, July 8-10, 2008.Towards the Self Deploying Microglider, a biomimetic jumping and gliding robot
2008. 4th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 2008. p. 41-42.Evolvability of Neuromodulated Learning for Robots
2008. The 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 6-8, 2008. p. 41-46. DOI : 10.1109/LAB-RS.2008.22.Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots
2008. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. p. 1242-1247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650856.Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios
2008. Artificial Life XI, Winchester UK, 5-8 August 2008. p. 569–576.Improving Actigraph Sleep/Wake Classification with Cardio-Respiratory Signals
2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, BC, 20.-25.8.2008. p. 5262-5265. DOI : 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650401.A miniature 7g jumping robot
2008. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2008), Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008. p. 373-378. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543236.Books
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.Bio-inspired Flying Robots: Experimental Synthesis of Autonomous Indoor Flyers
Lausanne: EPFL/CRC Press, 2008.Theses
Evolutionary and Computational Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity
University of Birmingham, UK, 2008.Book Chapters
Evolution of Altruistic Robots
Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008. p. 232-248.Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008.Posters
Scalable Reverse Engineering of Nonlinear Gene Networks
Exhibition of the Master projects, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 7, 2008.Patents
Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight
PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.
2008.Student Projects
Waypoint navigation with a MAV
2008.2007
Journal Articles
Arrays of microlenses with variable focal lengths fabricated by restructuring polymer surfaces with an ink-jet device
Optics Express. 2007. Vol. 15, p. 9877-9882. DOI : 10.1364/OE.15.009877.A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot
Advanced Robotics. 2007. Vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671-1684. DOI : 10.1163/156855307782227417.Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 2007. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61-96. DOI : 10.1007/s10710-006-9019-1.Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots
Current Biology. 2007. Vol. 17, p. 514-519. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058.Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2007. Vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596–607. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2006.886801.Conference Papers
Towards the Self Deploying Microglider; Gliding Flight and Bioinspired Wing Folding Mechanism
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 61-62.A Simple and Robust Fixed-Wing Platform for Outdoor Flying Robot Experiments
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69-70.Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots
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
2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133-134.Adaptive Sleep/Wake Classification Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals for Wearable Devices
2007. Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2007, Montreal, 27.-30.11.2007. p. 203-206. DOI : 10.1109/BIOCAS.2007.4463344.Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems
2007. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007) 25-28 Sept. 2007, Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. p. 2471-2478. DOI : 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424781.Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters
2007. GECCO 2007, University College, London, 2007. p. 1304–1311. DOI : 10.1145/1276958.1277205.Motion Detection Circuits for a Time-To-Travel Algorithm
2007. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, 27-30 May. p. 3079-3082. DOI : 10.1109/ISCAS.2007.378059.Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks
2007. 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2007), València, 11.4.-13.4.07. p. 155-165. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-71783-6_15.3D Vision-based Navigation for Indoor Microflyers
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’07), Roma, Italy, April 10th-14th, 2007. p. 1336-1341. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363170.A 1.5g SMA-actuated Microglider looking for the Light
2007. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2007), Rome, Italy, 10-14.4.2007. p. 367-372. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363814.Theses
Enactive robot vision
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Conference Proceedings
International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Book of Abstracts
2007. International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots.Posters
A Low-cost, Safe and Easy-to-Use Flying Platform for Outdoor Robotic Research and Education
International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007.Wearable Human Sleep/Wake Classification
BMES Annual Chapter Conference, Lausanne, 31.10.2007.Pheromone-based Swarming for Position-less MAVs
Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte-Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17 August.A 1.5g SMA actuated Microglider looking for the Light
EPFL.Self Deploying Microglider
Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17.8.2007.Optic-flow-based Altitude and Forward Speed Regulation using Stereotypical Lateral Movements
International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, August 12-17.Bioinspired Vision-based Microflyers
EPFL.Patents
Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks
US2007011111; US7370019.
2007.2006
Journal Articles
Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships
Autonomous Robots. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243-254. DOI : 10.1007/s10514-006-9718-8.Quantifying patterns of agent-environment interaction
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2006. Vol. 54, num. 2, p. 150-158. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.024.Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2006. Vol. 273, p. 1815-23. DOI : 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513.Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2006. Vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137-146. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2005.858857.Dynamic Perception after Visually Guided Grasping by a Human-Like Autonomous Robot
Advanced Robotics. 2006. Vol. 20, num. 2, p. 233-254. DOI : 10.1163/156855306775525785.Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots
International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2006. Vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005-1024. DOI : 10.1002/int.20173.Conference Papers
Co-evolution of Language and Behaviour in Autonomous Robots
2006. The sixth international conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang6), World Scientific, Rome, Italy, April, 2006. p. 428-429. DOI : 10.1142/9789812774262_0068.Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding
2006. 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006. p. 671–680. DOI : 10.1007/11844297_68.A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation
2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15. p. 3267-3272. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2006.282436.Active Vision for Neural Development and Landmark Navigation
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
2006. The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, June 3-7, 2006. p. 358-364.Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots
2006. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006. p. 10–11.Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation
2006. From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Roma, Italy, 25-29 September 2006. p. 263–273. DOI : 10.1007/11840541_22.Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers
2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836-2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving
2006. The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 March 2006. p. 153–161.Reviews
Trends in Dynamic and Embodied Cognition
International Neural Network Society Newsletter. 2006. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 9–10.Conference Proceedings
Artificial Life X
2006. Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices
2006. EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006.Talks
Supervised Learning from the Bayesian Viewpoint: An informal overview
LIS seminar, 18 December 2006.2005
Journal Articles
The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots
Neural Networks. 2005. Vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656–665. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.043.From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons
Artificial Life. 2005. Vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121-138. DOI : 10.1162/1064546053278900.The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2005. Vol. 12, num. 2, p. 21-28. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313.Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots
Evolutionary Computation. 2005. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527–544. DOI : 10.1162/106365605774666912.Conference Papers
Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT
2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 282-291. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_29.Robust Object Detection at Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition
2005. IEEE 2005 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA ’05), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005. p. 126-131. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570107.Information-theoretic approach to embodied category learning
2005. The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita,Japan, Feb 4 – Feb 6, 2005. p. 332-337.Co-evolution of Structures and Controllers for Neubot Underwater Modular Robots
2005. 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2005), Canterbury, Kent (UK), 5-9 September. p. 189-199. DOI : 10.1007/11553090_20.Toward 30-gram Autonomous Indoor Aircraft: Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance and Altitude Control
2005. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2005), Barcelona, 18-22 April. p. 2594-2599. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504.Constraints on Body Movement during Visual Development Affect Behavior of Evolutionary Robots
2005. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, 31 July-4 August 2005. p. 2778–2783. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556365.Theses
Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Multi-cellular reconfigurable circuits
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Bio-inspired vision-based flying robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Posters
Bio-inspired Indoor Microflyers
50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, 9-14 July.Talks
A tutorial on (Bayesian) probability
LIS seminar, 01 July 2005.Student Projects
Miniature Cameras for Ultra-Light Flying Robots
2005.2004
Journal Articles
SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193-221. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c.Machine Self-Evolution
YLEM journal. 2004. Vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4-10.Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot
Autonomous Robots. 2004. Vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223-245. DOI : 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3.Coevolution of active vision and feature selection
Biological Cybernetics. 2004. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218–228. DOI : 10.1007/s00422-004-0467-5.Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes
Evolutionary Computation. 2004. Vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495–515. DOI : 10.1162/1063656043138923.Conference Papers
Co-Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization Applied to the 7×7 Seega Game
2004. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Budapest, Hungary, July, 2004. p. 243-248. DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2004.1379907.Fast Color-Independent Ball Detection for Mobile Robots
2004. IEEE International Conference Mechatronics and Robotics 2004 (MechRob ’04), Aachen, Germany, September 2004. p. 900-905.Fingerprinting Agent-Environment Interaction via Information Theory
2004. The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, March 10 to 12, 2004. p. 512-520.Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics
2004. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14. p. 53-60.Evolution of Analog Networks using Local String Alignment on Highly Reorganizable Genomes
2004. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2004), Seattle, 24-26 June. p. 30-37.Connecting Transistors and Proteins
2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 9-14.An Evolving and Developing Cellular Electronic Circuit
2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 33-38.Prototyping with a bio-inspired reconfigurable chip
2004. 15th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP’2004). p. 239-246. DOI : 10.1109/IWRSP.2004.1311123.Multi-cellular development: is there scalability and robustness to gain?
2004. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 8 (PPSN’2004), Birmingham (UK), Birmingham, UK. p. 391-400.Evolving Genetic Regulatory Networks for Hardware Fault Tolerance
2004. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 8 (PPSN’04), Birmingham (UK), 18-22 September. p. 561-570.The SWARM-BOTS project
2004. Swarm Robotics (SAB’2004), Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17. p. 31-44. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4.Reviews
Review of “Ant Colony Optimization” by Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stützle
Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 2004. Vol. 6, p. 18.Book Chapters
Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004. p. 293-311.Conference Proceedings
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation – GECCO 2004
2004. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
2004. ANTS 2004, 4th International Workshop.Reports
Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft
2004
Hardware morphogenetic developmental system
2004
Posters
Optic-flow-based Navigation for Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
Insect Sensors and Robotics, Brisbane, Australia, 23-26 August 2004.Patents
Spiking neural network device
AU2002338754; WO2004027704.
2004.2003
Journal Articles
Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize
Ercim News. 2003. num. 53, p. 25-26.Conference Papers
Applying Co-Evolutionary Particle Swam Optimization to the Egyptian Board Game Seega
2003. The First Asian-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming, Canberra, Australia, December, 2003. p. 9-15.Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings
2003. 3rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems (HART’2002), Fukui, Japan, December 6-7, 2002. p. 65-70.A Morphogenetic Evolutionary System: Phylogenesis of the POEtic Circuit
2003. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’2003), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March. p. 153-164. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_14.Evolving Reinforcement Learning-Like Abilities for Robots
2003. 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’03), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March. p. 320-331. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_29.Exploring the T-Maze: Evolving Learning-Like Robot Behaviors using CTRNNs
2003. 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EvoRob’2003), Essex, UK, 14-16 April. p. 593-604. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36605-9_54.POEtic Tissue: An Integrated Architecture for Bio-inspired Hardware
2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 129-140. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_12.Hardware spiking neural network with run-time reconfigurable connectivity in an autonomous robot
2003. NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 9-11. p. 189-198. DOI : 10.1109/EH.2003.1217666.Effects of group composition and level of selection in the evolution of cooperation in artificial ants
2003. 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’2003). p. 128-137. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_14.Ontogenetic Development and Fault Tolerance in the POEtic Tissue
2003. 5th International Conference, ICES 2003, Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2003. p. 141-152. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36553-2_13.Vision-based Navigation from Wheels to Wings
2003. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 2968-2973. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1249322.SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation
2003. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 1626-1631. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1248877.Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection
2003. European Cognitive Science Conference, Osnabrück, Germany, 10-13 September. DOI : 10.4324/9781315782362-9.Robust Modeling of Dynamic Environment Based on Robot Embodiment
2003. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2003), Taipei, Taiwan, 14-19 September 2003. p. 3565-3570. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242142.Reports
Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation
2003