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Francesco Mondada Dr. web site: http://www.mondada.net/francesco office(s): MEB330 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 37357,34936 fax: [+41 21 69] 37807 Affiliation Francesco Mondada is leading the MOBOTS group within the LSRO laboratory. MISSION My research and teaching activity is centered around the mechatronic design of miniature mobile robots. This type of systems is an excellent example of mechatronics and a very motivating subjects for EPFL students. Working on this type of systems in education allows to address problems in mechanical design, electronic design, software development, system integration, signal processing, embedded programming, artificial intelligence approaches and much more. From a research point of view this type of system allow to address interdisciplinary research in mechanics, electronics, computer and communication science with very interesting connections to biology, psychology, design and art. This interdisciplinarity inside the system by its components and outside the system by its use generates incredible new areas of research and innovation. BIOGRAPHY Dr. Mondada received his M.Sc. in micro-engineering in 1991 and his Doctoral degree in 1997 at EPFL. During his thesis he co-founded the company K-Team, being both CEO and president of the company for about 5 years. He is one of the three main developers of the Khepera robot, considered as a standard in bio-inspired robotics and used by more than 1,000 universities and research centers worldwide. Fully back in research in 2000 and after a short period at CALTECH, he participated to the SWARM-BOTS project as the main developer of the s-bot robot platform, which was ranked on position 39 in the list of “The 50 Best Robots Ever” (fiction or real) by the Wired Journal in 2006. The SWARM-BOTS project was selected as FET-IST success story by the EU commission. He is author of more than 40 papers in the field of bio-inspired robotics and system level robot design. He is co-editor of several internation conference proceedings. In November 2005 he received the EPFL Latsis University prize for his contributions to bio-inspired robotics. His interests include the development of innovative mechatronic solutions for mobile and modular robots, the creation of know-how for future embedded applications, and making robot platforms more accessible for education, research, and industrial development. MAIN PUBLICATIONS Journal Papers Magnenat, S., Rétornaz, P., Bonani, M., Longchamp, V. and Mondada, F. (2010) ASEBA: A Modular Architecture for Event-Based Control of Complex Robots. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. To appear. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nouyan, S., Groß, R., Bonani, M., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2009) Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(4) pp. 695-711. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Tâche, F., Fischer, W., Caprari, G., Siegwart, R., Moser, R. and Mondada, F. (2009) Magnebike: A magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex-shaped structures. Journal of Field Robotics, 26(5) pp. 431-452. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Baldassarre, G., Trianni, V., Bonani, M., Mondada, F., Dorigo, M. and Nolfi, S. (2007) Self-Organised Coordinated Motion in Groups of Physically Connected Robots. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, 37(1) pp. 224-239. [detailed record] [bibtex] Halloy, J., Sempo, G., Caprari, G., Rivault, C., Asadpour, M., Tache, F., Said, I., Durier, V., Canonge, S., Ame, J.M., Detrain, C., Correll, N., Martinoli, A., Mondada, F., Siegwart, R. and Deneubourg, J.-L. (2007) Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices. Science, 318(5853) pp. 1155-1158. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Tuci, E., Groß, R., Trianni, V., Mondada, F., Bonani, M. and Dorigo, M. (2006) Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 1(2) pp. 115-150. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Bonani, M., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2006) Autonomous Self-assembly in Swarm-Bots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6) pp. 1115-1130. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Dorigo, M., Tuci, E., Mondada, F., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J.-L., Floreano, D. and Gambardella, L.M. (2005) The SWARM-BOTS Project. Künstliche Intelligenz, pp. 32-35.. [detailed record] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Gambardella, L.M., Floreano, D. and Dorigo, M. (2005) The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics. Robotics & Automation Magazine, 12(2) pp. 21-28. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Mondada, F., Perez-Uribe, A. and Roggen, D. (2004) Machine Self-Evolution. YLEM journal, 24(12) pp. 4-10. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Dorigo, M., Trianni, V., Sahin, E., Groß, R., Labella, T.H., Baldassarre, G., Nolfi, S., Mondada, F., Deneubourg, J.-L., Floreano, D. and Gambardella, L.M. (2004) Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, 17(2-3) pp. 223-245. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Pettinaro, G.C., Guignard, A., Kwee, I., Floreano, D., Deneubourg, J.-L., Nolfi, S., Gambardella, L.M. and Dorigo, M. (2004) SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, 17(2-3) pp. 193-221. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J.-L., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L.M., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2003) Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize. Ercim News, (53) pp. 25-26. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nolfi, S., Denebourg, J.-L., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2003) Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize. ERCIM News, 53 pp. 25-26. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Saucy, P. and Mondada, F. (2000) KhepOnTheWeb: open access to a mobile robot on the Internet. Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, 7(1) pp. 41-47. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Salzmann, C., Saucy, P., Gillet, D. and Mondada, F. (1999) Sharing of Unique or Expensive Equipment for Research and Education. Informatik, 4 pp. 32-43. [detailed record] [bibtex] Martinoli, A., Ijspeert, A.J. and Mondada, F. (1999) Understanding collective aggregation mechanisms: from probabilistic modelling to experiments with real robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 29(1) pp. 51-63. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1998) Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Neural Networks, 11(7-8) pp. 1461-1478. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Ulrich, I., Mondada, F. and Nicoud, J.D. (1997) Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 19(3-4) pp. 233-245.. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1996) Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, 26(3) pp. 396-407. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. (1995) Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 16(2-4) pp. 183-195. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nolfi, S., Floreano, D., Miglino, O. and Mondada, F. (1995) Robotica Evolutiva: metodologia e prospettive. [detailed record] [bibtex] Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. (1994) Conception évolutionniste de réseaux de neurones pour le controle de robots mobiles. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Conference Papers Magnenat, S., Longchamp, V., Bonani, M., Rétornaz, P., Germano, P., Bleuler, Hannes, and Mondada, F. (2010) Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. To appear. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Bonani, M., Magnenat, S., Rétornaz, P. and Mondada, F. (2009) The Hand-bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 5928 pp. 11-22. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Gribovskiy, A. and Mondada, F. (2009) Real-Time Audio-Visual Calls Detection System for a Chicken Robot. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 1 - 6. [detailed record] [bibtex] Gribovskiy, A. and Mondada, F. (2009) Design of Collision Avoidance System for a Chicken Robot Based on Fuzzy Relation Equations. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1851 - 1856. [detailed record] [bibtex] Groß, R., Magnenat, S., Küchler, L., Massaras, V., Bonani, M. and Mondada, F. (2009) Towards an Autonomous Evolution of Non-Biological Physical Organisms. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life. To appear. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Magnenat, S. and Mondada, F. (2009) Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 4349-4356. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Magnenat, S. and Mondada, F. (2009) Aseba Meets D-Bus: From the Depths of a Low-Level Event-. IEEE TC-Soft Workshop on Event-based Systems in Robotics (EBS-RO). [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Magnenat, S., Voelkle, M. and Mondada, F. (2009) Planner9, a HTN planner distributed on groups of miniature mobile robots. Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Application, 5928 pp. 1013-1022. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] O'Grady, R., Pinciroli, C., Groß, R., Christensen, A.L., Mondada, F., Bonani, M. and Dorigo, M. (2009) Swarm-bots to the Rescue. Proceedings of the 10th European Conf. on Artifical Life, ECAL 2009. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Peña, J., Perez-Uribe, A., Péclard, J.-R., Upequi, A., Thoma, Y., Sanchez, E., Mondada, F., Retornaz, P., Volken, H. and Jorand, O. (2009) Noise and bias for free : PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, pp. 28-34. [detailed record] [bibtex] Rey, F., Leidi, M. and Mondada, F. (2009) Interactive Mobile Robotic Drinking Glasses. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8, pp. 543-551. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Rochat, F., Schoeneich, P., Nguyen, O.T.-D. and Mondada, F. (2009) TRIPILLAR: Miniature magnetic caterpillar climbing robot with plane transition ability. Proceedings of 12th International conference on climbing and walking robots and the support technologies for mobile machines (CLAWAR), 1(1) pp. 343-350. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Raemy, X., Pugh, J., Cianci, C., Klaptocz, A., Magnenat, S., Zufferey, J.-C., Floreano, D. and Martinoli, A. (2009) The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, 1(1) pp. 59-65. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Nouyan, S., Bonani, M., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2008) Division of Labour in Self-Organised Groups. Proc. of the 10th Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (426-436). [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Magnenat, S., Noris, B. and Mondada, F. (2008) Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming. Fun and Games, pp. 65-74. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Ray, C., Mondada, F. and Siegwart, R. (2008) What do people expect from robots?. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, pp. 3816-3821. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Magnenat, S., Rétornaz, P., Noris, B. and Mondada, F. (2008) Scripting the swarm: event-based control of microcontroller-based robots.. SIMPAR 2008 Workshop Proceedings. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Gribovskiy, A. and Mondada, F. (2008) Audio-visual detection of multiple chirping robots. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 10 - IAS-10, pp. 324–331. [detailed record] [bibtex] O'Grady, R., Groß, R., Christensen, A.L., Mondada, F., Bonani, M. and Dorigo, M. (2007) Performance Benefits of Self-Assembly in a Swarm-Bot. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2381-2387. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Tache, F., Fischer, W., Moser, R., Mondada, F. and Siegwart, R. (2007) Adapted magnetic wheel unit for compact robots inspecting complex shaped pipe structures. , pp. 1-6. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Tâche, F., Fischer, W., Siegwart, R., Moser, R. and Mondada, F. (2007) Compact Magnetic Wheeled Robot with High Mobility for Inspecting Complex Shaped Pipes Structures. , pp. 261-266. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Magnenat, S., Longchamp, V. and Mondada, F. (2007) ASEBA, an event-based middleware for distributed robot control. Workshops and Tutorials CD IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Bonani, M., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2006) Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot. Proc. of the 3rd Int. Symp. on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, AMiRE 2005, pp. 314-322. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Mondada, F. and Dorigo, M. (2006) Transport of an Object by Six Pre-attached Robots Interacting via Physical Links. Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1317-1323. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Groß, R., Tuci, E., Dorigo, M., Bonani, M. and Mondada, F. (2006) Object Transport by Modular Robots that Self-assemble. Proc. of the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2558-2564. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nouyan, S., Groß, R., Dorigo, M., Bonani, M. and Mondada, F. (2006) Group Transport Along a Robot Chain in a Self-Organised Robot Colony. Proc. of the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 433-442. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Scheidegger, N., Mondada, F., Bonani, M. and Siegwart, R. (2006) Bi-pedal Robot for Rescue Operations. CLAWAR 2006, pp. 425-430. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] O'Grady, R., Groß, R., Mondada, F., Bonani, M. and Dorigo, M. (2005) Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain. Proc. of the 8th European Conf. on Artifical Life, ECAL 2005, pp. 272-281. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Guignard, A., Magnenat, S., Studer, C. and Floreano, D. (2005) Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 282-291. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Magnenat, S., Guignard, A., Floreano, D., Groen, F., Amato, N., Bonari, A., Yoshida, E. and Kröse, B. (2004) Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics. 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), pp. 53-60. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Dorigo, M., Tuci, E., Groß, R., Trianni, V., Labella, T.H., Nouyan, S., Deneubourg, J.-L., Baldassarre, G., Nolfi, S., Mondada, F., Floreano, D. and Gambardella, L.M. (2004) The SWARM-BOTS project. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3342 pp. 31-44. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Guignard, A., Bonani, M., Bär, D., Lauria, M. and Floreano, D. (2003) SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2003), pp. 1626-1631. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Pettinaro, G.C., Kwee, I., Guignard, A., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L.M., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J.-L. and Dorigo, M. (2002) SWARM-BOT: A Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Self-Assembling Capabilities. Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour, pp. 11-22. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Pettinaro, G.C., Kwee, I., Gambardella, L.M., Mondada, F., Floreano, D., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J.-L. and Dorigo, M. (2002) SWARM Robotics: A Different Approach to Service Robotics. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics, pp. 71-76. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Sahin, E., Labella, T.H., Trianni, V., Deneubourg, J.-L., Rasse, P., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L.M., Mondada, F., Nolfi, S. and Dorigo, M. (2002) SWARM-BOT: Pattern Formation in a Swarm of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 4 pp. 145 -150. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F. and Legon, S. (2001) Interactions between Art and Mobile Robotic System Engineering. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics From Intelligent Robotics to Artificial Life, pp. 121 - 138. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Franzi, E. and Guignard, A. (1999) The Development of Khepera. Experiments with the Mini-Robot Khepera, pp. 7-14. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Billard, A., Ijspeert, A.J. and Martinoli, A. (1999) Adaptive exploration of a dynamic environment by a group of communicating robots. Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), pp. 596-605. [detailed record] [bibtex] Martinoli, A., Ijspeert, A.J. and Gambardella, L.M. (1999) A probabilistic model for understanding and comparing collective aggregation mechanisms. Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), pp. 575-584. [detailed record] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1998) Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics. First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROBOT'1998). [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Nolfi, S. and Mondada, F. (1998) Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice. From Animals to Animats 5. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Martinoli, A., Mondada, F., Lueth, T., Dillman, R., Dario, P. and Wörn, H. (1998) Probabilistic Modelling of a Bio-Inspired Collective Experiment with Real Robots. Proc. of the Fourth Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 289-308.. [detailed record] [bibtex] Saucy, P. and Mondada, F. (1998) KhepOnTheWeb : One Year of Access to a Mobile Robot on the Internet. . [detailed record] [bibtex] Martinoli, A., Yamamoto, M. and Mondada, F. (1997) On the Modelling of Bio-Inspired Collective Experiments with Real Robots. WWW Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Artificial Life ECAL'97. [detailed record] [bibtex] Michel, O., Saucy, P. and Mondada, F. (1997) KhepOnTheWeb : An Experimental Demonstrator in TeleRobotics and Vritual Reality. Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'97). [detailed record] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1996) Evolving fast-learning neural controllers for a mobile robot. Brain and Evolution. [detailed record] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1996) Evolution of Plastic Neurocontrollers for Situated Agents. From Animals to Animats 4. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Martinoli, A. and Mondada, F. (1995) Collective and Cooperative Behaviours: Biologically Inspired Experiments in Robotics. Preprints of the 4th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER'95, pp. 2-7.. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1994) Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic Evolution of a Neural Network Driven Robot. From Animals to Animats 3. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. (1994) Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective. From Perception to Action Conference (PERAC'1994). [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Nolfi, S., Floreano, D., Miglino, O. and Mondada, F. (1994) How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics. 4th International Workshop on Artificial Life. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Franzi, E. and Ienne, P. (1994) Mobile Robot Miniaturization: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Basso, A., Mondada, F. and Castelfranchi, C. (1993) Reactive Goal Activation in Intelligent Autonomous Agent Architectures. Proc. of the AAI93 symposium on Abstract Intelligent Agents. [detailed record] [bibtex] Mondada, F. and Verschure, P.F.M.J. (1993) Modeling system-environment interaction: the complimentary roles of simulation and real world artifacts. Proceedings of ECAL'97, pp. 808-817. [detailed record] [bibtex] Piguet, Y., Mondada, F. and Siegwart, R. "Hands-On Mechatronics": Problem-Based Learning for Mechatronics. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Piguet, Y., Mondada, F. and Siegwart, R. New Environment for Learning by Doing in Mechatronics Education. Proceedings of the 1st EURON Workshop on Robotics Education and Training. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Ph.D. Theses Mondada, F. (1997) Conception de structures neuronales pour le contrôle de robots mobiles autonomes. Ph.D. Thesis, 1997. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Books Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Blum, C., Gambardella, L.M., Mondada, F. and Stützle, T. (2004) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2004. [detailed record] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Nicoud, J.D. and Mondada, F. (1999) Advances in Artificial Life. Berlin : Springer Verlag, 1999. [detailed record] [bibtex] Löffler, A., Mondada, F. and Rückert, U. (1999) Experiments with the Mini-Robot Khepera. 1999. [detailed record] [bibtex] Book Chapters Dorigo, M., Tuci, E., Trianni, V., Groß, R., Nouyan, S., Ampatzis, C., Labella, T.H., O'Grady, R., Bonani, M. and Mondada, F. (2006) SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-Assembling Robots. in Computational Intelligence: Principles and Practice, New York : IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2006. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Mondada, F., Perez-Uribe, A. and Roggen, D. (2004) Evolution of Embodied Intelligence. in Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2004. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Nolfi, S. and Mondada, F. (2001) Co-Evolution and Ontogenetic Change in Competing Robots. in Advances in the Evolutionary Synthesis of Intelligent Agents, Cambridge (MA) : MIT Press, 2001. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Ijspeert, A.J. (1999) Synthetic approaches to neurobiology: review and case study in the control of anguiliform locomotion. in Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL99, Springer Verlag, 1999. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Floreano, D., Godjevac, J., Martinoli, A., Mondada, F. and Nicoud, J.D. (1998) Design, Control, and Applications of Autonomous Mobile Robots. in Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Agents, Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex] Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. (1995) Evolution and Mobile Autonomous Robotics. in Towards Evolvable Hardware, The Evolutionary Engineering Approach, Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 1995. [detailed record] [bibtex] Mondada, F., Franzi, E., Ienne, P., Yoshikawa, T. and Miyazaki, F. (1994) Mobile Robot Miniaturization: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms. in Experimental Robotics III, London : Springer, 1994. [detailed record] [bibtex] Posters Magnenat, S., Schoeneich, P., Rochat, F., Rétornaz, P., Bonani, M., Longchamp, V., Voelkle, M., Barras, T., Burnier, D., Noirat, P., Baaboura, T., Vaussard, F. and Mondada, F. (2010) Autonomous Construction by a Mobile Robot in Unknown Environments with Scarce Resources. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 27 & 28, 2010. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

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