Publications de Dario Floreano

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Miniature curved artificial compound eyes

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Géraud L'Eplattenier

In most animal species, vision is mediated by compound eyes, which offer lower resolution than vertebrate single-lens eyes, but significantly larger fields of view with negligible distortion and spherical aberration, and high temporal resolution in a tiny ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Artificial Evolution by Viability Rather Than Competition

Pradeep Ruben Fernando, Dario Floreano, Andrea Maesani

Evolutionary algorithms are widespread heuristic methods inspired by natural evolution to solve difficult problems for which analytical approaches are not suitable. In many domains experimenters are not only interested in discovering optimal solutions, but ...

Public Library of Science2014

Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini

Human-Robot Interfaces (HRIs) represent a crucial component in telerobotic systems. Body-Machine Interfaces (BoMIs) based on body motion can feel more intuitive than standard HRIs for naive users as they leverage humans’ natural control capability over the ...

2021

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

Dario Floreano, Pavan P Ramdya, Pawel Lichocki

Collective behaviour enhances environmental sensing and decision-making in groups of animals. Experimental and theoretical investigations of schooling fish, flocking birds and human crowds have demonstrated that simple interactions between individuals can ...

2015

Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Mototaka Suzuki

In this paper, we describe the artificial evolution of adaptive neural controllers for an outdoor mobile robot equipped with a mobile camera. The robot can dynamically select the gazing direction by moving the body and/or the camera. The neural control sys ...

2005

Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Stéphane Magnenat, Markus Waibel

The efficiency of social insect colonies critically depends on their ability to efficiently allocate workers to the various tasks which need to be performed. While numerous models have investigated the mechanisms allowing an efficient colony response to ex ...

2006

Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone

Dario Floreano, Carine Rognon

Haptic feedback located on the torso is proposed to enhance the state awareness of a user in virtual reality or during teleoperation while leaving the hands free for manipulation and communication. We provide haptic feedback on the torso by compressing a s ...

2019

Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach, Peter Dürr

Artiﬁcial neural networks, electronic circuits, and gene networks are some examples of systems that can be modeled as networks, that is, as collections of interconnected nodes. In this paper we introduce the concept of terminal graph (t-graph for short), w ...

2011

The Age of Analog Networks

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach, Peter Dürr

A large class of systems of biological and technological relevance can be described as analog networks, that is, collections of dynamical devices interconnected by links of varying strength. Some examples of analog networks are genetic regulatory networks, ...

2008

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

Dario Floreano, Pavan P Ramdya, Kyle Gustafson, Andrea Maesani

The neural mechanisms determining the timing of even simple actions, such as when to walk or rest, are largely mysterious. One intriguing, but untested, hypothesis posits a role for ongoing activity fluctuations in neurons of central action selection circu ...

2015

Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction Through Hand Motion

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini

The control of collective robotic systems, such as drone swarms, is often delegated to autonomous navigation algorithms due to their high dimensionality. However, like other robotic entities, drone swarms can still benefit from being teleoperated by human ...

2021

Rapid and Continuous Stiffness Control of Fiber-Jamming Catheters for Cardiac Ablation

Dario Floreano, Yegor Piskarev

Minimally invasive surgeries, such as cardiac ablations, increasingly resort to magnetically-steered catheters. To enhance the dexterity and tissue interaction capabilities of these devices, researchers have developed catheters with variable stiffness (VS) ...

2025

Co-Design Optimisation of Morphing Topology and Control of Winged Drones

Dario Floreano, Valentin Wüest

The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required, shape-shifting (morphing) drones represent an efficient solution. However, m ...

IEEE2024

Bio-mimetic Evolutionary Reverse Engineering of Genetic Regulatory Networks

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach

The effective reverse engineering of biochemical networks is one of the great challenges of systems biology. The contribution of this paper is two-fold: 1) We introduce a new method for reverse engineering genetic regulatory networks from gene expression d ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2007

Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

Dario Floreano, Davide Scaramuzza, Valentin Wüest

Control design for robotic systems is complex and often requires solving an optimization to follow a trajectory accurately. Online optimization approaches like Model Predictive Control (MPC) have been shown to achieve great tracking performance, but requir ...

New York2023

A Magnetic Continuum Device with Variable Stiffness for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Alice Tonazzini

One of the challenges of minimally invasive surgery is the dexterous manipulation and precise control of small diameter continuum surgical instruments. In this paper, a magnetic continuum device with variable stiffness (VS) is presented, whose tip can be p ...

2019

Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks

Dario Floreano, Alexandru Rusu, Fabrizio Schiano, Giuseppe Cocco

Besides being part of the Internet of Things (IoT), drones can play a relevant role in it as enablers. The 3D mobility of UAVs can be exploited to improve node localization in IoT networks for, e.g., search and rescue or goods localization and tracking. On ...

IEEE2020

Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi

We describe a method for the online classification of sleep/wake states based on cardiorespiratory signals produced by wearable sensors. The method was conceived in view of its applicability to a wearable sleepiness monitoring device. The method uses a Fas ...

2009

Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Michal Karol Dobrzynski

Typical deflection sensors like strain gauges or devices based on optical fibers require physical contact with the deflected substrate during the measurement process. Such contact, however, impacts on the softness of the substrate and may falsify the measu ...

2012

Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr

Environments with varying reward contingencies constitute a challenge to many living creatures. In such conditions, animals capable of adaptation and learning derive an advantage. Recent studies suggest that neuromodulatory dynamics are a key factor in reg ...

IEEE Press2007