Evolving Spiking Neurons from Wheels to Wings

• Presented at: 3rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems (HART'2002), Fukui, Japan, December 6-7, 2002
• Published in: Dynamic Systems Approach for Embodiment and Sociality, vol. 6, p. 65-70
• Series: Advanced Knowledge International, International Series on Advanced Intelligence
• : , 2003

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.

Note: K. Murase and T. Asakura (eds.)

Keywords: Bio-inspired Flying Robots

Reference

• LIS-CONF-2003-001

• URL: http://www.his.fukui-u.ac.jp/HART2002/

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