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A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research: perspective on a decade of Living Machines research

Many invertebrates are ideal model systems on which to base robot design principles due to their success in solving seemingly complex tasks across domains while possessing smaller nervous systems than vertebrates. Three areas are particularly relevant for ...

2023

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

Groups of fixed-wing robots can benefit from moving in synchrony to share sensing and communication capabilities, avoid collisions or produce visually pleasing choreographies. For this reason, we provide a strategy to produce global group movement that can ...

2013

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

Groups of fixed-wing robots can benefit from moving in synchrony to share sensing and communication capabilities, avoid collisions or produce visually pleasing choreographies. Synchronous motion is especially challenging when using fixed-wing robots that r ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2013

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Maja Varga

The success of swarm behaviors often depends on the range at which robots can communicate and the speed at which they change their behavior. Challenges arise when the communication range is too small with respect to the dynamics of the robot, preventing in ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

We aim at implementing a swarm of Micro-Air-Vehicles for creating communication networks (SMAVNETs) in disaster areas. For this purpose, we propose strategies for steering flying robots using only communication hardware (e.g. WiFi module or radio modem) an ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Communication-based Leashing of Real Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

Aerial robots are often required to remain within the communication range of a base station on the ground to exchange commands, sensor data or as a safety mechanism. For this purpose, we propose a minimal control strategy for steering flying robots using o ...

2010

Evolutionary Synthesis of Communication-Based Aerial Swarms

Sabine Hauert

Aerial swarms have the potential to search for forest fires, chemical plumes or victims and serve as communication and sensor networks in the sky. Flying robots are interesting for such applications because they are fast, can easily overcome difficult terr ...

EPFL2010

Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert

It is generally challenging to design decentralized controllers for swarms of robots because there is often no obvious relation between the individual robot behaviors and the final behavior of the swarm. As a solution, we use artificial evolution to automa ...

2009

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert

2009

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

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Laurent Winkler

Swarming without positioning information is interesting in application- oriented systems because it alleviates the need for sensors which are dependent on the environment, expensive in terms of energy, cost, size and weight, or unusable at useful ranges fo ...

2008

Evolutionary Swarms of Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

2007