Flying robots are very useful for tasks such as aerial mapping, fast exploration, video footage and monitoring of buildings. However, autonomous missions are usually constrained to high altitude flights above flat surfaces in order to avoid collisions. Traditional methods for collision-free navigation require large resources and limit the payload of robots.
On the other hand, flying insects are able to navigate safely and efficiently using low quality vision as their main sensory input. Ideally, robots could adopt insects strategies, but little is known about the way insects turn visual stimuli into muscular actuation during flight. This precludes a direct implementation of insect flight control into robots and forces roboticists to guess appropriate strategies.
In this thesis, we aim to investigate, develop and implement insect-inspired control strategies in flying robots for goal-oriented navigation in complex environments. We will start by exploring insect sensing and actuation through experiments with bumblebees. Then, we will model the insect’s flight control strategies. This model will be tested in simulation and implemented in a custom designed flying robot. Through experiments in natural environments, we will characterize the efficiency of our model for goal-oriented collision-free navigation.
Publications
Radio as Architecture: Notes toward the Redefinition of the Berlin Walls
War Zones: gta papers; Zurich: gta Verlag, 2019. p. 134.ISBN : 978-3-85676-390-9
DOI : 10.54872/gta-pap-2
Radio-Activities
Thresholds
2017
num. 45, p. 194–209.The Ground as Forensic Evidence: Alfredo Thiermann in Conversation with Eyal Weizman
ARQ (Santiago)
2016
num. 93, p. 14–23.White on White
Are We Human? The Design of the Species: 2 Seconds, 2 Days, 2 Years, 200 Years, 200,000 Years; Zurich: Lars Müller, 2016.ISBN : 978-3-03778-511-9
What Does an Invisible Architecture Look Like
The Real Review
2016
num. 1, p. 70-74.Dynamics of the Void
ARQ (Santiago)
2015
num. 90, p. 70-71.Dynamics of the Void
Trace Magazine
2014
num. 9, p. 104–115.Artefact Nr. I
Trace Magazine
2014
num. 9, p. 30-40.Artefact Nr. I
Potlatch Journal of Architecture
2013
num. 3, p. 56–69.Artefacto Nr. I
ARQ
2013
num. 83, p. 62–67.Artefact Nr. I.
Zeppelin Magazine
2014-11-01
num. 129, p. 43–45.Characterization of the gut-bone marrow axis through bile acid signaling
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 98.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11206
Studies of crystal collimation for heavy ion operation at the LHC
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 245.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11188
Engineering novel protein interactions with therapeutic potential using deep learning-guided surface design
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 208.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10799
Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modelling and Representation of Knowledge
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 320.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10732
Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 157.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10708
Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 273.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10634
Plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions for investigation of atomic-scale fluctuations in self-assembled monolayers
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 133.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10443
Exact Obstacle Avoidance for Robots in Complex and Dynamic Environments Using Local Modulation
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 256.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10373
S-acylation and lipid exchange at the ER-Golgi membrane contact sites regulate pathogen entry in human cells
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 157.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10352
Serial Dependence in Human Visual Perception and Decision-Making
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 185.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10327
Data-Driven Methods for Controller Design in Atomic Force Microscopy
Lausanne: EPFL2024
p. 180.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10016
Aesthetics of Extinction, Aesthetics of Conservation: the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale
Harvard Design Magazine
2023-09-01
Vol. F/W 23 , num. 51.Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films
Light: Science & Applications
2024
Vol. 13 , num. 91.DOI : 10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2
Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes
EGU 2024, Viena, April 14–19, 2024.
Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.
Biohybrid Superorganisms—On the Design of a Robotic System for Thermal Interactions With Honeybee Colonies
IEEE Access
2024
Vol. 12 , p. 50849-50871.DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3385658
Dataset to accompany publication “Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films”
2024
Impact of CO2-rich seawater injection on the flow properties of basalts
2024-04-19
DOI : 10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104128
Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future
London: Mack, 2023-01-01.ISBN : 978-1-913620-81-3
Architecture of a decentralised decision support system for futuristic beehives
Biosystems Engineering
2024
Vol. 240 , p. 56-61.DOI : 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2024.02.017
Comment une situation d’investigation policière fait évoluer les conceptions d’élèves de troisième sur l’ADN
RDST
2013
num. 7, p. 77-106.DOI : 10.4000/rdst.698
TSLAM: a tag-based object-centered monocular navigation system for augmented manual woodworking.
Construction Robotics
2024-04-16
Vol. 8 , num. 4.DOI : 10.1007/s41693-024-00118-w
Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
2024
Vol. 177 , p. 105736.DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2024.105736
Integration of the Pilatus3 detector for soft X-ray diagnostics on TCV
25th Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics HTPD 2024, Asheville, North Carolina, 21 – 25 April 2024.
Siloxide tripodal ligands as a scaffold for stabilizing lanthanides in the +4 oxidation state
Chemical Science
2024-04-02
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High-Permittivity Polysiloxanes for Bright, Stretchable Electroluminescent Devices
Advanced Optical Materials
2024-04-11
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An extension of the stochastic sewing lemma and applications to fractional stochastic calculus
Forum Of Mathematics Sigma
2024-04-11
Vol. 12 , p. e52.DOI : 10.1017/fms.2024.32
A bridge between trust and control: computational workflows meet automated battery cycling
Journal Of Materials Chemistry A
2024-04-03
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Capsizing due to friction-induced twist in the failure of stopper knots
Extreme Mechanics Letters
2024-02-19
Vol. 68 , p. 102134.DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2024.102134
A CTCF-dependent mechanism underlies the Hox timer relation to a segmented body plan
Current Opinion In Genetics & Development
2024-04-01
Vol. 85 , p. 102160.DOI : 10.1016/j.gde.2024.102160
Gradient High-Q Dielectric Metasurfaces for Broadband Sensing and Control of Vibrational Light-Matter Coupling
Advanced Materials
2024-04-09
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SOMOphilic alkyne vs radical-polar crossover approaches: The full story of the azido-alkynylation of alkenes
Beilstein Journal Of Organic Chemistry
2024-04-03
Vol. 20 , p. 701-713.DOI : 10.3762/bjoc.20.64
Dielectric elastomer actuator-based valveless pump as Fontan failure assist device: introduction and preliminary study
Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular And Thoracic Surgery
2024-03-29
Vol. 38 , num. 4, p. ivae041.DOI : 10.1093/icvts/ivae041
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought
Journal Of Ecology
2024-04-08
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Probing structural and dynamic properties of MAPbCl3 hybrid perovskite using Mn2+ EPR
Dalton Transactions
2024-04-03
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Benchmarking machine-readable vectors of chemical reactions on computed activation barriers
Digital Discovery
2024-03-07
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Quantum radio astronomy: Data encodings and quantum image processing
Astronomy And Computing
2024-02-28
Vol. 47 , p. 100796.DOI : 10.1016/j.ascom.2024.100796
Comprehensive Memory Safety Validation: An Alternative Approach to Memory Safety
Ieee Security & Privacy
2024-04-04
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A Method of Moments Estimator for Interacting Particle Systems and their Mean Field Limit
Siam-Asa Journal On Uncertainty Quantification
2024-01-01
Vol. 12 , num. 2, p. 262-288.DOI : 10.1137/22M153848X
A setup for hard x-ray time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at SwissFEL
Structural Dynamics-Us
2024-03-01
Vol. 11 , num. 2, p. 024308.DOI : 10.1063/4.0000236
An aircraft assembly process formalism and verification method based on semantic modeling and MBSE
Advanced Engineering Informatics
2024-02-20
Vol. 60 , p. 102412.DOI : 10.1016/j.aei.2024.102412
Stellar Metallicities and Gradients in the Isolated, Quenched Low-mass Galaxy Tucana
Astrophysical Journal
2024-04-01
Vol. 965 , num. 1, p. 36.DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad25ed
Twisted pair transmission line coil – a flexible, self-decoupled and robust element for 7 T MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2024-02-19
Vol. 108 , p. 146-160.DOI : 10.1016/j.mri.2024.02.007
Equilibria in Network Constrained Energy Markets
Ifac Papersonline
2023-01-01
22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Yokohama, JAPAN, JUL 09-14, 2023.p. 4168-4172
DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1760
Minimal regret state estimation of time-varying systems
Ifac Papersonline
2023-01-01
22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Yokohama, JAPAN, JUL 09-14, 2023.p. 2595-2600
DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1345
Follow the Clairvoyant: an Imitation Learning Approach to Optimal Control
Ifac Papersonline
2023-01-01
22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Yokohama, JAPAN, JUL 09-14, 2023.p. 2589-2594
DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1344
3D Printing of Double Network Granular Elastomers with Locally Varying Mechanical Properties
Advanced Materials
2024-04-04
DOI : 10.1002/adma.202313189
Dopant-additive synergism enhances perovskite solar modules
Nature
2024-03-04
DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-07228-z
Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development
Nature Cell Biology
2024-04-03
DOI : 10.1038/s41556-024-01380-4
Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet Cu3TeO6
Physical Review Letters
2024-02-26
Vol. 132 , num. 9, p. 096701.DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.096701
Is There a Special Role for Ovarian Hormones in the Pathogenesis of Lobular Carcinoma?
Endocrinology
2024-03-29
Vol. 165 , num. 5, p. bqae031.DOI : 10.1210/endocr/bqae031
Stick-slip-to-stick transition of liquid oscillations in a U-shaped tube
Physical Review Fluids
2024-03-19
Vol. 9 , num. 3, p. 034401.DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.034401
Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2024-04-02
DOI : 10.1038/s41580-024-00718-y
An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century
Empirical Musicology Review
2023-01-01
Vol. 18 , num. 1, p. 84-95.DOI : 10.18061/emr.v18i1.8903
Impact of beam-coupling impedance on the Schottky spectrum of bunched beam
Journal Of Instrumentation
2024-03-01
Vol. 19 , num. 3, p. P03017.DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/19/03/P03017
Gaussian universality of perceptrons with random labels
Physical Review E
2024-03-08
Vol. 109 , num. 3, p. 034305.DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.034305
Diffusion of brain metabolites highlights altered brain microstructure in type C hepatic encephalopathy: a 9.4 T preliminary study
Frontiers In Neuroscience
2024-03-20
Vol. 18 , p. 1344076.DOI : 10.3389/fnins.2024.1344076
Teaching about non-deterministic physics: an almost forgotten fundamental contribution of Marie Curie
European Journal Of Physics
2024-05-01
Vol. 45 , num. 3, p. 035803.DOI : 10.1088/1361-6404/ad312e
The angiogenic growth of cities
Journal Of The Royal Society Interface
2024-04-03
Vol. 21 , num. 213, p. 20230657.DOI : 10.1098/rsif.2023.0657
Learning Weakly Convex Regularizers for Convergent Image-Reconstruction Algorithms
Siam Journal On Imaging Sciences
2024-01-01
Vol. 17 , num. 1, p. 91-115.DOI : 10.1137/23M1565243
Euclid: Improving the efficiency of weak lensing shear bias calibration
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-03-28
Vol. 683 , p. A240.DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202347833
Randomized flexible GMRES with deflated restarting
Numerical Algorithms
2024-03-28
DOI : 10.1007/s11075-024-01801-3
An interior penalty coupling strategy for isogeometric non-conformal Kirchhoff-Love shell patches
Engineering With Computers
2024-03-27
DOI : 10.1007/s00366-024-01965-5
Stress tolerance of lightweight glass-free PV modules for vehicle integration
Epj Photovoltaics
2024-04-01
Vol. 15 , p. 10.DOI : 10.1051/epjpv/2024003
On the Arithmetic and Geometric Fusion of Beliefs for Distributed Inference
Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control
2024-04-01
Vol. 69 , num. 4, p. 2265-2280.DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2023.3330405
Alpha1-antitrypsin improves survival in murine abdominal sepsis model by decreasing inflammation and sequestration of free heme
Frontiers In Immunology
2024-03-18
Vol. 15 , p. 1368040.DOI : 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1368040
Quantitative prediction of crystallization in laser powder bed fusion of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass with high oxygen content
Materials & Design
2024-03-01
Vol. 239 , p. 112744.DOI : 10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112744
A cut-cell method for the numerical simulation of 3D multiphase flows with strong interfacial effects
Journal Of Computational Physics
2024-02-26
Vol. 504 , p. 112846.DOI : 10.1016/j.jcp.2024.112846
Speciation of Lanthanide Metal Ion Dopants in Microcrystalline All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite CsPbCl3
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
2024-03-28
Vol. 146 , num. 14, p. 9554-9563.DOI : 10.1021/jacs.3c11427
Can Gas Consumption Data Improve the Performance of Electricity Theft Detection?
Ieee Transactions On Industrial Informatics
2024-03-18
DOI : 10.1109/TII.2024.3371991
Design and in vitro Characterization of a Wearable Multisensing System for Hydration Monitoring
Ieee Transactions On Instrumentation And Measurement
2024-01-01
Vol. 73 , p. 1-11.DOI : 10.1109/TIM.2024.3369161
Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors
Journal Of Nuclear Engineering
2024-03-01
Vol. 5 , num. 1, p. 26-43.DOI : 10.3390/jne5010003
Accretion Disk Size and Updated Time-delay Measurements in the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3
Astrophysical Journal
2024-04-01
Vol. 964 , num. 2, p. 173.DOI : 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3069
The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide
Environmental Science-Atmospheres
2024-02-15
Vol. 4 , num. 2, p. 243-251.DOI : 10.1039/d3ea00140g
Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism
Journal Of Low Power Electronics And Applications
2024-03-01
Vol. 14 , num. 1, p. 2.DOI : 10.3390/jlpea14010002
On the Sums over Inverse Powers of Zeros of the Hurwitz Zeta Function and Some Related Properties of These Zeros
Symmetry-Basel
2024-03-01
Vol. 16 , num. 3, p. 326.DOI : 10.3390/sym16030326
Realization of Organocerium-Based Fullerene Molecular Materials Showing Mott Insulator-Type Behavior
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces
2024-03-27
Vol. 16 , num. 14, p. 17857-17869.DOI : 10.1021/acsami.3c18766
Mean-field transport equations and energy theorem for plasma edge turbulent transport
Journal Of Plasma Physics
2024-03-15
Vol. 90 , num. 2, p. 905900202.DOI : 10.1017/S0022377824000163
Two- and Three-Dimensional Superconducting Phases in the Weyl Semimetal TaP at Ambient Pressure. (vol 10, 288, 2020)
Crystals
2024-03-01
Vol. 14 , num. 3, p. 264.DOI : 10.3390/cryst14030264
Microbial genome collection of aerobic granular sludge cultivated in sequencing batch reactors using different carbon source mixtures
Microbiology Resource Announcements
2024-03-27
DOI : 10.1128/mra.00102-24
The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Journal Of Climate
2024-02-01
Vol. 37 , num. 3, p. 779-799.DOI : 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1
The Key Players of CNS function: Exploring the Effects of Region, Age, and Sex on Human Glia Diversity
Glia
2023-07-01
16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Berlin, GERMANY, JUL 08-11, 2023.p. E478-E479
Resolving the morpho-functional responses of locally-constrained retinal microglia with morphOMICs
Glia
2023-07-01
16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Berlin, GERMANY, JUL 08-11, 2023.p. E465-E466
MorphOMICs: a new algorithm to unravel region- and sex-dependent microglia morphological plasticity in health and disease
Glia
2023-07-01
16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Berlin, GERMANY, JUL 08-11, 2023.p. E459-E459
Profiling the chromatin landscape of adult human oligodendroglia using single-cell epigenomics
Glia
2023-07-01
16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Berlin, GERMANY, JUL 08-11, 2023.p. E458-E458
Loss of TDP-43 in microglia leads to abnormal brain development
Glia
2023-07-01
16th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Berlin, GERMANY, JUL 08-11, 2023.p. E341-E341
The multimodality cell segmentation challenge: toward universal solutions
Nature Methods
2024-03-26
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Towards a muon collider
European Physical Journal C
2023-09-26
Vol. 83 , num. 9, p. 864.DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11889-x
Euclid: The search for primordial features
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-03-25
Vol. 683 , p. A220.DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361/202348162