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From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons

Floreano, Dario  
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Zufferey, Jean-Christophe  
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Nicoud, Jean-Daniel
2005
Artificial Life

We give an overview of the EPFL indoor flying project, whose goal is to evolve neural controllers for autonomous, adaptive, indoor micro-flyers. Indoor flight is still a challenge because it requires miniaturization, energy efficiency, and control of non-linear flight dynamics. This ongoing project consists in developing a 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 neural controller without human intervention. This document describes the motivation and methodology used to reach our goal as well as the results of a number of preliminary experiments on vision-based wheeled and flying robots.

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DOI
10.1162/1064546053278900
Author(s)
Floreano, Dario  
Zufferey, Jean-Christophe  
Nicoud, Jean-Daniel
Date Issued

2005

Published in
Artificial Life
Volume

11

Issue

1-2

Start page

121

End page

138

Subjects

Bio-inspired Flying Robots

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Aerial Robotics

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Evolutionary Robotics

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Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation

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URL

http://phd.zuff.info/
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REVIEWED

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January 12, 2006
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