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Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

In social insects, workers perform a multitude of tasks such as foraging, nest construction and brood rearing without central control of how work is allocated among individuals. It has been suggested that workers choose a task by responding to stimuli gath ...

2012

Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

High levels of cooperation are often cited as the primary reasons for the ecological success of social insects. In social insects, workers perform a multitude of tasks such as foraging, nest construction and brood rearing without central control of how wor ...

The MIT Press2012

An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Michael Dommer, Jürg Markus Germann, Ramon Pericet Camara

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

3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, James Roberts, Timothy Stirling

Swarms of indoor flying robots are promising for many applications, including searching tasks in collapsing buildings, or mobile surveillance and monitoring tasks in complex man-made structures. For tasks that employ several flying robots, spatial-coordina ...

Springer Verlag2012

Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots

Dario Floreano, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Ramon Pericet Camara

In the emerging field of soft robotics, there is an interest in developing new kinds of sensors whose characteristics do not affect the intrinsic compliance of soft robot components. Additionally, non-invasive shape and deflection sensors may provoke impro ...

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GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

Dario Floreano, Daniel Marbach, Thomas Schaffter

Motivation: Over the last decade, numerous methods have been developed for inference of regulatory networks from gene expression data. However, accurate and systematic evaluation of these methods is hampered by the difficulty of constructing adequate bench ...

Oxford University Press2011

The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, François Gervaix, Dario Floreano, Pascal Fua, Antoine Beyeler, Olivier Küng, Christoph Strecha

This paper presents an affordable, fully automated and accurate mapping solutions based on ultra-light UAV imagery. Several datasets are analysed and their accuracy is estimated. We show that the accuracy highly depends on the ground resolution (flying hei ...

2011

SleepPic. Hardware Developments for a Wearable On-line Sleep and Wake Discrimination System

Dario Floreano, Walter Karlen

The design of wearable systems comes with constraints in computational and power resources. We describe the development of customized hardware for the wearable discrimination of human sleep and wake based on cardio-respiratory signals. The device was desig ...

SciTePress2011

CURVACE - CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

CURVACE aims at designing, developing, and assessing CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes, a radically novel family of vision systems. This innovative approach will provide more efficient visual abilities for embedded applications that require motion analysis i ...

Elsevier B.V.2011

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, 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

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 ...

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The locomotion capabilities of the EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that wings can be used to prolong the jumps of miniature jumping robots. However, no functional miniature jumping robot has been presented so far that can successfully apply this hybrid locomotion principle. In this video publication, ...

2011

Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis

Dario Floreano, Daniel Marbach, Claudio Mattiussi, 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 EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Wassim Hraiz, Oriol Fauria Torrent

2011

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Markus Waibel

The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb − c>0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r i ...

Public Library of Science2011

Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Sara Mitri

Communication is an indispensable component of animal societies, yet many open questions remain regarding the factors affecting the evolution and reliability of signalling systems. A potentially important factor is the level of genetic relatedness between ...

2011

Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Manuel Schlegel, Mirko Kovac

Jumping is used in nature by many small animals to locomote in cluttered environments or in rough terrain. It offers small systems the benefit of overcoming relatively large obstacles at a low energetic cost. In order to be able to perform repetitive jumps ...

Springer Verlag2010

Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information

Dario Floreano, Timothy Stirling

Swarms of flying robots are a promising alternative to ground-based robots for search in indoor environments with advantages such as increased speed and the ability to fly above obstacles. However, there are numerous problems that must be surmounted includ ...

Springer Verlag2010

Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller

2010

Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller

Division of labour is one of the most prominent features of social insects. The efficient allocation of individuals to different tasks requires dynamic adjustment in response to environmental perturbations. Theoretical models suggest that the colony-level ...

Springer Verlag2010

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