Journal Articles
2025
First-Person View Interfaces for Teleoperation of Aerial Swarms
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025. Vol. 10, num. 5, p. 4476 – 4483. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2025.3553062.Edible Jumpers Powered by Shell Snapping
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2025. p. 2401230. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202401230.Instant variable stiffness in cardiovascular catheters based on fiber jamming
Science Advances. 2025. Vol. 11, num. 6. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.adn1207.2024
Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs
Nature. 2024. Vol. 636, p. 86 – 91. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-08228-9.A twist of the tail in turning maneuvers of a bird-inspired feathered drone
Science Robotics. 2024. Vol. 9, num. 96. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ado3890.Adaptive morphing of wing and tail for stable, resilient, and energy-efficient flight of avian-inspired drones
npj Robotics. 2024. Vol. 2, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44182-024-00015-y.Data-Driven Personalization of Body-Machine Interfaces to Control Diverse Robot Types
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 2024. Vol. 55, num. 1, p. 353 – 365. DOI : 10.1109/TSMC.2024.3478113.The rise of transient robotics
Device. 2024. Vol. 2, num. 10. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100554.Agile perching maneuvers in birds and morphing-wing drones
Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-52369-4.Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon
Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2024. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2023.3271203.Passive wing deployment and retraction in beetles and flapping microrobots
Nature. 2024. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07755-9.High-Speed Motion Planning for Aerial Swarms in Unknown and Cluttered Environments
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2024. Vol. 40, p. 3642 – 3656. DOI : 10.1109/tro.2024.3429193.Crash-perching on vertical poles with a hugging-wing robot
Communications Engineering. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-024-00241-0.Edible Soft Actuators based on Konjac Glucomannan for Underwater Operation
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2024. Vol. 6, num. 5, p. 2300473. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202300473.Fast-Response Variable-Stiffness Magnetic Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Science. 2024. Vol. 11, num. 12, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1002/advs.202470069.Towards edible robots and robotic food
Nature Reviews Materials. 2024. p. online. DOI : 10.1038/s41578-024-00688-9.A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing
Advanced Sensor Research. 2024. Vol. 3, num. 5, p. 2300150. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300150.2023
Use of an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems
Remote Sensing In Ecology And Conservation. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/rse2.373.Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2023. Vol. 29, num. 3, p. 1856 – 1866. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2023. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 035005. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/acc223.A Soft Gripper with Granular Jamming and Electroadhesive Properties
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 6, p. 2200409. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200409.Wind Defiant Morphing Drones
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2023. Vol. 5, num. 2200297. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200297.The evolution of behavioral cues and signaling in displaced communication
PLoS Computational Biology. 2023. Vol. 19, num. 3, p. e1010487. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010487.An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot
Advanced Sensor Research. 2023. num. 2300092, p. 9. DOI : 10.1002/adsr.202300092.2022
Robotic Avian Wing Explains Aerodynamic Advantages of Wing Folding and Stroke Tilting in Flapping Flight
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200148.How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch
Nature Communications. 2022. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 7713. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-35356-5.Sharp turning maneuvers with avian-inspired wing and tail morphing
Communications Engineering. 2022. p. 10.1038/s44172 – 022. DOI : 10.1038/s44172-022-00035-2.What we look for at Science Robotics
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 71, p. eade5834. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.ade5834.Reconfigurable Drone System for Transportation of Parcels With Variable Mass and Size
IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12150 – 12157. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2022.3208716.Elastic-Actuation Mechanism for Repetitive Hopping Based on Power Modulation and Cyclic Trajectory Generation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2022. Vol. 39, num. 1, p. 558 – 571. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2022.3189249.Machine-Learning Based Monitoring of Cognitive Workload in Rescue Missions with Drones
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2022. p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3186625.Dual Stiffness Tensegrity Platform for Resilient Robotics
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2022. p. 2200025. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202200025.Enhancement of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive by CO2 Laser Treatment
Advanced Engineering Materials. 2022. num. 2200355. DOI : 10.1002/adem.202200355.Swarms of flying robots in unknown environments
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 66, p. eabq2215. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abq2215.On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3158758.A Variable Stiffness Magnetic Catheter Made of a Conductive Phase-Change Polymer for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Functional Materials. 2022. p. 1 – 11, 2107662. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202107662.How to Swoop and Grasp Like a Bird With a Passive Claw for a High-Speed Grasping
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2022. p. 1 – 9. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2022.3143095.Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 73 – 80. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3118091.Autonomous Detection and Deterrence of Pigeons on Buildings by Drones
IEEE Access. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1745 – 1755. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3137031.Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 4, p. 12054 – 12061. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3122107.How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives
Science Robotics. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 65, p. eabg5561. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abg5561.2021
Passive Perching with Energy Storage for Winged Aerial Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100150. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100150.Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 223 – 230. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3123378.Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 8341 – 8348. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3102324.Smart Textiles that Teach: Fabric‐Based Haptic Device Improves the Rate of Motor Learning
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021. p. 2100043. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202100043.Insect Inspired Self-Righting for Fixed-Wing Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. 6805 – 6812. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3096159.Stretchable and Soft Electroadhesion Using Liquid‐Metal Subsurface Microelectrodes
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2021. p. 2100263. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202100263.Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots
PLOS One. 2021. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. e0252202. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252202.Predictive control of aerial swarms in cluttered environments
Nature Machine Intelligence. 2021. Vol. 3, p. 545 – 554. DOI : 10.1038/s42256-021-00341-y.VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1343 – 1350. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3058073.Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 2954 – 2961. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3062298.Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms With a Vision-Based Headset
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 1455 – 1462. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2021.3051565.From individual robots to robot societies
Science Robotics. 2021. Vol. 6, num. 56, p. eabk2787. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abk2787.2020
Design Optimization of Soft Robots
Ieee Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2020. Vol. 27, num. 4, p. 10 – 11. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2020.3028658.Bioinspired wing and tail morphing extends drone flight capabilities
Science Robotics. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 47, p. eabc2897. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.abc2897.Lighter and Stronger: Cofabricated Electrodes and Variable Stiffness Elements in Dielectric Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020. Vol. 2, num. 10, p. 1 – 8, 2000069. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202000069.Downside Up:Rethinking Parcel Position for Aerial Delivery
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4297 – 4304. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993768.A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 4233 – 4240. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2993757.Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine
Smart Materials and Structures. 2020. Vol. 29, num. 7, p. 075013. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/ab87e0.Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures
Soft Robotics. 2020. Vol. 7, num. 3, p. 362 – 369. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2019.0091.2019
Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. p. 1 – 1. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2950816.Haptic feedback perception and learning with cable-driven guidance in exosuit teleoperation of a simulated drone
IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 375 – 385. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2019.2925612.A Magnetic Continuum Device with Variable Stiffness for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 6, p. 1900086. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.201900086.Stretchable pumps for soft machines
Nature. 2019. Vol. 572, p. 516 – 519. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-019-1479-6.Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 4, p. 4523 – 4530. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2935377.Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications
IEEE Communications Letters. 2019. Vol. 23, num. 11, p. 1962 – 1966. DOI : 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2934684.The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics
Journal of Field Robotics. 2019. Vol. 36, num. 7, p. 1171 – 1191. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21887.Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 3, p. 2524 – 2531. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2019.2907432.The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments
Scientific Reports. 2019. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 7707. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-44187-2.The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Ieee Robotics And Automation Letters. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 209 – 216. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885575.Inquiry-Based Learning with RoboGen: An Open-Source Software and Hardware Platform for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 3, p. 356 – 369. DOI : 10.1109/TLT.2018.2833111.2018
All‐Fabric Wearable Electroadhesive Clutch
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1800313. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201800313.Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Soft Robotics. 2018. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 466 – 474. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2017.0062.Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays
Scientific Reports. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 5821. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-24162-z.Ultra-stretchable strain sensors using carbon black-filled elastomer composites and comparison of capacitive versus resistive sensors
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2018. Vol. 3, p. 1700284. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201700284.FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 3, p. 2362 – 2369. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 20, p. eaau0275. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.Soft Robotic Grippers
Advanced Materials. 2018. Vol. 30, num. 29, p. 1707035. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201707035.Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles
Science Robotics. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 23, p. eaau6903. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2018. p. 201718648. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.Last-Centimeter Personal Drone Delivery: Field Deployment and User Interaction
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. Vol. 3, num. 4, p. 3813 – 3820. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2856282.2017
Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, p. 1248 – 1255. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2017.2658946.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.Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2017. Vol. 2, num. 1, p. 358 – 365. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2016.2626520.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.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.2016.0092.2016
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.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.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.Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability
Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 46, p. 10105. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.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.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.Soft compliant gripper for safe manipulation of extremely fragile objects
SPIE Newsroom. 2016. DOI : 10.1117/2.1201603.006409.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.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.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.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/s10514-015-9494-4.2015
A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997 – 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.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.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.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.Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2015. Vol. 10, p. 025006. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3190/10/2/025006.Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones
Nature. 2015. Vol. 521, p. 460 – 466. DOI : 10.1038/nature14542.Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents
Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2015. Vol. 72, p. 285 – 294. DOI : 10.1016/j.robot.2015.06.003.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.Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila
Nature. 2015. Vol. 519, p. 233 – 236. DOI : 10.1038/nature14024.Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns
Plos Computational Biology. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 11, p. e1004577. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004577.2014
Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition
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
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.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.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.A Collision Resilient Flying Robot
Journal of Field Robotics. 2014. Vol. 31, num. 4, p. 469 – 509. DOI : 10.1002/rob.21495.2013
Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 2013. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 60 – 71. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996.Evolving team compositions by agent swapping
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282 – 298. DOI : 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2191292.Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)
RSC Advances. 2013. Vol. 3, num. 46, p. 24671 – 24679. DOI : 10.1039/c3ra44412k.Miniature curved artificial compound eyes
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2013. Vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332 – 9337. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1219068110.2012
Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor
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
PLOS One. 2012. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048381.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.Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2012. Vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864 – 868. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1104267109.Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 2012. Vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011 – 2018. DOI : 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433.An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2012. Vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 – 1157. DOI : 10.1109/TRO.2012.2201309.3-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.An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots
Advanced Robotics. 2012. Vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785 – 798. DOI : 10.1163/156855312X626325.2011
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.The Ethical Landscape of Robotics
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. 2011. Vol. 18, num. 1, p. 39 – 50. DOI : 10.1109/MRA.2011.940275.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.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.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.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.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. DOI : 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2011.55.6.060506.Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis
Journal of Computational Science. 2011. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 165 – 177. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.01.007.2010
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.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.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.Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot
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
Swarm Intelligence. 2010. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117 – 144. DOI : 10.1007/s11721-010-0039-3.Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2010. Vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286 – 6291. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.0913357107.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.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.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.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.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.Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2010. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 1 – 12. DOI : 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/045003.2009
Do animat models always need a biological target organism?
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2022. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. DOI : 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981921.Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
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Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics
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2019. The Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Naples, Italy, February 25-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IRC.2019.00028.Embodied Flight with a Drone
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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
2018. 2nd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, June 11-12, 2018.Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor
2018. 18th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), SOUTH KOREA, Oct 17-20, 2018. p. 291 – 296.Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation
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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_35.2017
A Variable Stiffness Catheter Controlled with an External Magnetic Field
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 24–28, 2017. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8202155.Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics
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2017. SPIE Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017. p. 1016203 – 1. DOI : 10.1117/12.2259931.One Constraint at a Time: Using Viability Principles in Integrative Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies
2017. 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical-Society, San Francisco, CA, FEB 15-19, 2014. p. 289A – 289A. DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.1567.An origami-inspired cargo drone
2017. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, September 24-28, 2017. p. 6855 – 6862. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206607.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.2017.8206281.2016
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 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.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.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.Evolution in Cognition 2016 Chairs’ Welcome
2016. GECCO ’16, Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 07 2016. p. 1043 – 1045. DOI : 10.1145/2908961.2931670.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.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.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_2.2015
Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits
2015. GECCO ’15, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015. p. 743 – 744. DOI : 10.1145/2739482.2764894.DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg
2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.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.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.Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy
2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097 – 1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage
2015. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, p. 669 – 674. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353444.2014
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.Miniature artificial compound eyes for optic-flow-based robotic navigation
2014. Workshop on Information Optics WIO2014, Neuchatel, Switzerland, July 7-11, 2014. p. 1 – 3. DOI : 10.1109/WIO.2014.6933290.Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines
2014. Artificial Life 14: International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, New York, NY, USA, July 30-August 2, 2014. p. 465 – 472. DOI : 10.7551/978-0-262-32621-6-ch076.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.Curved artificial compound-eyes for autonomous navigation
2014. Micro-Optics, Brussels, Belgium, APR 14-16, 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2052710.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.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.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_21.2013
A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive
2013. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, May 6-7, 2013. p. 4433 – 4438. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631206.Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment
2013. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 1-3, 2010. p. 5 – 18. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_1.Soft Cell Simulator: A tool to study Soft Multi-Cellular Robots
2013. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China, December 12-14, 2013. p. 1300 – 1305. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2013.6739644.Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots
2013. 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.Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks
2013. FOURTH NORDIC WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM AND NETWORK OPTIMIZATION FOR WIRELESS, Kittila, Finland, 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.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.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.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.Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
2013. Robotics: Science and Systems RSS2013, Berlin, Germany, June 24-28, 2013.Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures
2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.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, 2013.2012
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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.2012.6385505.2011
Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2011), San Francisco, September 25-30, 2011. p. 5015 – 5020. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095129.The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot
2011. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011, Thailand, 2011-12-07 – 2011-12-11. p. 2249 – 2250. DOI : 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181631.Robot Companions for Citizens
2011. FET’11, Budapest, p. 47 – 51. DOI : 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.017.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems
2011. International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments
2011. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, August 28-September 1, 2011.SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System
2011. BIOSIGNALS 2011 – International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011. p. 132 – 137.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.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.The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery
2011. UAV-g 2011 – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, September 14-16, 2011.myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems
2011. RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 15-16th June 2011.myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems.
2011. European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, September 13-15, 2011.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.2011.6181502.2010
Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3329 – 3334. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509273.Communication-based 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.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.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.Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots
2010. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010). p. 15 – 20. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509421.An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, US, May 3-8, 2010. p. 3349 – 3354. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509338.2009
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.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.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.A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs
2009. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 2873 – 2878. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354465.The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
2009. 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. p. 59 – 65.A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities
2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, October 11-15, 2009. p. 583 – 588. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354005.optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow
2009. European Micro Air Vehicle conference and competition 2009 (EMAV ’09), Delft, Netherland, September 14-17, 2009.2.5D 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.2009.5354263.2008
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.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, 2008-09-22.Optic flow to control small UAVs
2008. Workshop on visual guidance systems for small autonomous aerial vehicles at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2008), Nice, 2008-09-22.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.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.Near-obstacle flight with small UAVs
2008. UAV’2008, Orlando, June 23-25, 2008.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.Evolutionary Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity in Dynamic, Reward- based Scenarios
2008. Artificial Life XI, Winchester UK, 5-8 August 2008. p. 569 – .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.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.Ishtar: a flexible and lightweight software for remote data access
2008. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference EMAV08, Braunschweig, Germany, July 8-10, 2008.2007
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.A Simple and Robust Fixed-Wing Platform for Outdoor Flying Robot Experiments
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007. p. 69 – 70.Insect-inspired Autonomous Microflyer
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17. p. 133 – 134.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.Center of Mass Encoding: A self-adaptive representation with adjustable redundancy for real-valued parameters
2007. GECCO 2007, University College, London, 2007. p. 1304 – . DOI : 10.1145/1276958.1277205.3D 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.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.Quadrotor Using Minimal Sensing For Autonomous Indoor Flight
2007. European Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (EMAV2007), Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2007.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.Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks
2007. 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2007), València, 11.4.-13.4.07. p. 155 – 165. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-71783-6_15.A 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.Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots
2007. International Symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Monte Verità, Switzerland, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, August 12-17.2006
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 for Neural Development and Landmark Navigation
2006. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Switzerland, 9-14 July 2006. p. 247 – 248.Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots
2006. The Seventh International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006. p. 10 – .Neuroevolution with Analog Genetic Encoding
2006. 9th Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN iX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006. p. 671 – . DOI : 10.1007/11844297_68.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.Vision-based Altitude and Pitch Estimation for Ultra-light Indoor Microflyers
2006. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’06), Orlando, FL, May, 2006. p. 2836 – 2841. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131.A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation
2006. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15. p. 3267 – 3272. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2006.282436.Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation
2006. From Animals to Animats 9: The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Roma, Italy, 25-29 September 2006. p. 263 – . DOI : 10.1007/11840541_22.Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving
2006. The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 March 2006. p. 153 – .2005
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 – . DOI : 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1556365.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_20.2004
Connecting Transistors and Proteins
2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 9 – 14.Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics
2004. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), Amsterdam, NL, March 10-14. p. 53 – 60.An Evolving and Developing Cellular Electronic Circuit
2004. 9th International Conference on Artificial Life (Alife9), Boston (MA), p. 33 – 38.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.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.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.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.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.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.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 – 520.2003
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.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.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.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.Complex Visual Behavior with Simple Brains: Co-evolutionary Active Vision and Feature Selection
2003. European Cognitive Science Conference, Osnabrück, Germany, 10-13 September. DOI : 10.4324/9781315782362-9.SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation
2003. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2003). p. 1626 – 1631. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2003.1248877.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.2003.1217666.2002
A POEtic Architecture for Bio-Inspired Hardware
2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December. p. 111 – 115.Evolutionary Bits’n’Spikes
2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December.Levels of Dynamics and Adaptive Behavior in Evolutionary Neural Controllers
2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation on Adaptive Behavior (SAB’2002), Edinburgh, UK, 4 – 9 – 11 August.SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics
2002. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR’2002), Stockholm, Sweden, October 7-11. p. 71 – 76.Evolving Vision-based Flying Robots
2002. 2nd International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV’2002), Tübingen, November 22 – 24, 2002. p. 592 – 600. DOI : 10.1007/3-540-36181-2_59.SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities
2002. Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13. p. 11 – 22.SOS++: Finding Smart Behaviors Using Learning and Evolution
2002. 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife 8), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9-13 December. p. 264 – 273.SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots
2002. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9. p. 145 – 150. DOI : 10.1109/ICSMC.2002.1173259.Active Vision and Feature Selection in Evolutionary Behavioral Systems
2002. The Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 5 – 9 August. p. 247 – .Toward Indoor Flying Robots
2002. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30 – October 4. p. 787 – 792. DOI : 10.1109/IRDS.2002.1041486.2001
An Evolutionary Active-Vision System
2001. The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, South Korea, 05/27/2001 – 05/30/2001. p. 107 – .Reviews
2014
Robotics and Neuroscience
Current Biology. 2014. Vol. 24, p. R910 – R920. DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.058.2013
Using robots to understand social behavior
Biological Reviews. 2013. num. 88, p. 31 – 39. DOI : 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00236.x.2010
Evolving olfactory systems on the fly
Trends In Genetics. 2010. Vol. 26, p. 307 – 316. DOI : 10.1016/j.tig.2010.04.004.2006
Trends in Dynamic and Embodied Cognition
International Neural Network Society Newsletter. 2006. Vol. 4, num. 2, p. 9 – .2004
Review of “Ant Colony Optimization” by Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stützle
Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 2004. Vol. 6, p. 18.2002
Review of: “Digital Biology: The Creation of Life Inside Computers and How It Will Affect Us” by Peter J. Bentley
Artificial Life. 2002. Vol. 8, p. 379 – 382. DOI : 10.1162/106454602321202444.Books
2022
Tales from a Robotic World. How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.2009
Flying Insects and Robots
Berlin: Springer, 2009.2008
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, 2008.2002
Manuale sulle Reti Neurali
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.2001
Evolutionary Robotics. The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-organizing Machines
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.Theses
2025
Avian-inspired designs for multi-modal robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.2024
Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Accurate and agile flight with winged drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Multifunctional Wings and Appendages for Flight, Perching, and Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.2023
Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Resilient drones with morphing wings
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.2022
Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Model Predictive Control of Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.2021
Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.2020
Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.2019
Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.2017
Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.2016
Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.Fixed-wing drones for communication networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.2015
Viability evolutionary algorithms and applications to neuroscience and biology
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Adaptive Morphology for Multi-Modal Locomotion
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015.2014
From Genes to Organisms : Bioinformatics System Models and Software
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Robust Autonomous Flight in Unstructured Environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.Soft Cells for Modular Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014.2013
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, 2013.2012
Design of Flying Robots for Collision Absorption and Self-Recovery
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012.2011
Genetic Representation of Adaptive Neural Controllers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Flying Robots without Global Information
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Collective Operation of Indoor Flying Robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2011.2010
Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.Bioinspired Jumping Locomotion for Miniature Robotics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010.2009
Evolutionary reverse engineering of gene networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Adaptive wake and sleep detection for wearable systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.The evolution of communication in robot societies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2009.2008
Evolutionary and Computational Advantages of Neuromodulated Plasticity
University of Birmingham, UK, 2008.2007
Enactive robot vision
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants
Lausanne, EPFL, 2007.2005
Bio-inspired vision-based flying robots
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Multi-cellular reconfigurable circuits : evolution, morphogenesis and learning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Evolutionary synthesis of analog networks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2005.Book Chapters
2016
Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 2035 – 2068.2014
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. p. 203 – 217.2013
Aerial collective systems
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford, 2013. p. 609 – 660.2010
Evolving Cooperation: From Biology to Engineering
The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics; Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2010.2009
Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 123 – 134.Active Vision for Goal-Oriented Humanoid Robot Walking
Creating Brain-Like Intelligence; Springer-Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 313.Optic Flow to Steer and Avoid Collisions in 3D
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer, 2009. p. 73 – 86.Towards a self-deploying and gliding robot
Flying Insects and Robots; Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. p. 271 – 284.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.A Robotic Platform for Studying the Evolution of Communication
Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009. p. 303 – 306.2008
Evolutionary Robotics
Handbook of Robotics; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008.Evolution of Altruistic Robots
Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2008. p. 232 – 248.2004
Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
Embodied Artificial Intelligence; Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004. p. 293 – 311.2002
Ago Ergo Sum
Consciousness Evolving; Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2002. p. 181 – 204.Trends in Evolutionary Robotics
Proceedings of the 2002 Interdisciplinary College; Bremen: Arendtap Publishing, 2002. p. 314 – 333.2001
Evolution of Spiking Neural Controllers for Autonomous Vision-based Robots
Evolutionary Robotics. From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life; Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001. p. 38 – 61.Conference Proceedings
2010
Swarm Intelligence. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010
2010.2007
International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots, Book of Abstracts
2007. International symposium on Flying Insects and Robots.2006
Dynamical principles for neuroscience and intelligent biomimetic devices
2006. EPFL LATSIS Symposium 2006.Artificial Life X
2006. Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.2004
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation – GECCO 2004
2004. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
2004. ANTS 2004, 4th International Workshop.2002
From Animals to Animats 7
2002. 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.Reports
2010
Numerical Integration of SDEs: A Short Tutorial
2010
Review of Light-weight Payloads for MAVs and Experiments with Thermopiles
2010
2009
Stochastic Simulations for DREAM4
2009
2004
Hardware morphogenetic developmental system
2004
Optic-flow-based steering and altitude control for ultra-light indoor aircraft
2004
2003
Viability Evolution: Elimination and Extinction in Evolutionary Computation
2003
Posters
2013
Artificial muscles for soft robots
Festival de robotique.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.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, 2013.2012
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
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, 2011.2010
Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots
International Workshop on Self-Organized Systems, Zürich, Switzerland, December 9-11.GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
All-SystemsX.ch-Day 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-2, 2010.GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods
3rd annual joint conference on Systems Biology, Regulatory Genomics, and Reverse Engineering Challenges, New York City, USA, November 16-20, 2010.2008
Scalable Reverse Engineering of Nonlinear Gene Networks
Exhibition of the Master projects, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 7, 2008.2007
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.Wearable Human Sleep/Wake Classification
BMES Annual Chapter Conference, Lausanne, 31.10.2007.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.Self Deploying Microglider
Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 12-17.8.2007.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.Bioinspired Vision-based Microflyers
EPFL.2005
Bio-inspired Indoor Microflyers
50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland, 9-14 July.2004
Optic-flow-based Navigation for Ultralight Indoor Aircraft
Insect Sensors and Robotics, Brisbane, Australia, 23-26 August 2004.Talks
2006
Supervised Learning from the Bayesian Viewpoint: An informal overview
LIS seminar, 2006-12-18.2005
A tutorial on (Bayesian) probability
LIS seminar, 2005-07-01.Patents
2020
Stretchable electrohydrodynamic pump
WO2020233791.
2020.2019
STEERABLE CATHETER WITH PORTIONS OF DIFFERENT STIFFNESS
US2020230361; EP3678724; CN111050835; WO2019048328; EP3449965.
2019.Teleoperation with a wearable sensor system
US12019438; US2021247758; WO2019244112; GB2574886; GB201810285.
2019.2018
Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device
US10860014; US2019258239; EP3509801; WO2018047102.
2018.2017
Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping
US11065771; US2019047157; WO2017145103.
2017.Variable Stiffness Device and Method of Manufacturing the Same
US10113537; US2017292502; WO2017175174.
2017.Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability
PL3439955; EP3439955; US10252795; EP3439955; SG11201808868Q; US2017291697; WO2017175199.
2017.2016
Foldable and self-deployable aerial vehicle
US9446845; WO2016066790; US2016122016.
2016.Neuroprosthetic System Restoring Upper Limb Function Through Coordinated Electrical Stimulation
EP3060113; US10046161; US2016303369; EP3060113; WO2015059612.
2016.Non-invasive drawable electrode for neuromuscular electrical stimulation and biological signal sensing
ES2935603; EP3191171; US11147492; US2017273590; EP3191171; WO2016038545.
2016.2014
Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device
US2015293138; EP2917693; WO2014072377; EP2730888.
2014.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.
2014.2011
Method for fabricating an artificial compound eye
AT538406; EP2306230; WO2011039062; EP2306230.
2011.2008
Visual autopilot for near-obstacle flight
PL2274658; ES2389549; EP2274658; US2011029161; EP2274658; WO2009127907.
2008.2007
Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks
US2007011111; US7370019.
2007.2004
Spiking neural network device
AU2002338754; WO2004027704.
2004.