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Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey
2003
Conference Papers

Abstract

We give an overview of the EPFL indoor flying project, whose goal is to evolve autonomous, adaptive, indoor micro-flyers. Indoor flight is still a challenge because it requires miniaturization, energy efficiency, and smart control. This ongoing project consists in developing an autonomous flying vision-based micro-robot, a bio-inspired controller composed of adaptive spiking neurons directly mapped into digital micro-controllers, and a method to evolve such a network without human intervention. This document describes the motivation and methodology used to reach our goal as well as the results of a number of experiments on vision-based wheeled and flying robots.

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Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey
2003
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/9fc17a2f-4f4d-4d89-a68d-d63e1b8a5432

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