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Omnidirectional Active Vision for Evolutionary Car Driving

Dario Floreano, Mototaka Suzuki

We describe a set of simulations to evolve omnidirectional active vision, an artificial retina scanning over images taken via an omnidirectional camera, being applied to a car driving task. While the retina can immediately access features in any direction, ...

2006

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly rel ...

2019

Arm-wrist haptic sleeve for drone teleoperation

Dario Floreano, Vivek Ramachandran, Matteo Macchini

Teleoperators rely on both visual and haptic feedback to perform drone teleoperation tasks, such as obstacle avoidance. Haptic feedback becomes essential when visual feedback is compromised, either due to visual occlusions or poor depth perception. However ...

2022

Personalized Telerobotics by Fast Machine Learning of Body-Machine Interfaces

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini

Human-Robot Interfaces (HRIs) can be hard to master for inexperienced users, making the teleoperation of mobile robots a difficult task. The development of Body-Machine Interfaces (BoMIs) represents a promising approach to making a user more proficient, by ...

2019

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

Flavio Noca, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

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

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller

One of the key innovations during the evolution of life on earth has been the emergence of efficient communication systems, yet little is known about the causes and consequences of the great diversity within and between species. By conducting experimental ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Edible aquatic robots with Marangoni propulsion

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Shuhang Zhang, Markéta Pankhurst

Centimeter-scale aquatic robots could be used in environmental monitoring, exploration, and intervention in aquatic environments. However, existing robots rely on artificial polymers and commercial electronic components, which can pollute and disrupt sensi ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

This article presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft biomimetic robotic fish based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) that swims by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) propulsion. BCF is a promising locomotion mechanism that potenti ...

2018

Active Vision and Neural Development in Animals and Robots

Dario Floreano, Mototaka Suzuki

2006

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

Dario Floreano, Charbel Toumieh

Coordinated flight of multiple drones allows to achieve tasks faster such as search and rescue and infrastructure inspection. Thus, pushing the State-of-the-Art of aerial swarms in navigation speed and robustness is of tremendous benefit. In particular, be ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2024

Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Fish Robot

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Davide Zappetti

This paper presents a method to create fish-like robots with tensegrity systems and describes a prototype modeled on the body shape of the rainbow trout with a length of 400 mm and a mass of 102 g that is driven by a waterproof servomotor. The structure of ...

IEEE2020

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Severin Leven

The idea of creating collective aerial systems is appealing because several rather simple flying vehicles could join forces to cover a large area in little time in applications such as monitoring, mapping, search and rescue, or airborne communication relay ...

John Wiley & Sons2011

Evolutionary Active Vision Toward Three Dimensional Landmark-Navigation

Dario Floreano, Mototaka Suzuki

Active vision may be useful to perform landmark-based navigation where landmark relationship requires active scanning of the environment. In this article we explore this hypothesis by evolving the neural system controlling vision and behavior of a mobile r ...

2006

The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments

Dario Floreano, Julien Jean Denis Nicolas Lecoeur

Flight through cluttered environments, such as forests, poses great challenges for animals and machines alike because even small changes in flight path may lead to collisions with nearby obstacles. When flying along narrow corridors, insects use the magnit ...

Nature Research2019

A method for ego-motion estimation in micro-hovering platforms flying in very cluttered environments

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod

We aim at developing autonomous miniature hovering flying robots capable of navigating in unstructured GPS-denied environments. A major challenge is the miniaturization of the embedded sensors and processors that allow such platforms to fly by themselves. ...

Springer Verlag2016

SwarmLab: a MATLAB Drone Swarm Simulator

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Among the available solutions for drone swarm simulations, we identified a lack of simulation frameworks that allow easy algorithms prototyping, tuning, debugging and performance analysis. Moreover, users who want to dive in the research field of drone swa ...

2020

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

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

memory in biological neural networks. Similarly, artificial neural networks could benefit from modulatory dynamics when facing certain types of learning problem. Here we test this hypothesis by introducing modulatory neurons to enhance or dampen neural pla ...

MIT Press2008

Foldable aircraft with protective cage for transportation and transportability

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

An aerial vehicle, configured to transport cargo, and including a propulsion system and a foldable cage is described. The foldable cage is substantially linear while in a folded configuration, and substantially circular while in a deployed configuration. M ...

2017

A twist of the tail in turning maneuvers of a bird-inspired feathered drone

Dario Floreano, Hoang Vu Phan

A banked turn is a common flight maneuver observed in birds and aircraft. To initiate the turn, whereas traditional aircraft rely on the wing ailerons, most birds use a variety of asymmetric wing-morphing control techniques to roll their bodies and thus re ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2024

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Jürg Markus Germann

To date, most modular robotic systems lack flexibility when increasing the number of modules due to their hard building blocks and rigid connection mechanisms. In order to improve adaptation to environmental changes, softness on the module level might be b ...

2012