Dario Floreano

EPFL STI IMT LIS
MED 1 1026 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
1015 Lausanne

Web site:  Web site:  https://lis.epfl.ch/

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Fields of expertise

Aerial Robots
Evolutionary Robots
Soft Robots
Wearable Robots
Bio-inspired Robots
Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence

Awards

2000 : SNSF Assistant Professorship : Swiss National Science Foundation

2021 : Fellow of the ELLIS Society : European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems

2022 : Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

2024 : Julian Francis Miller Award : The Species International Society

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Microengineering

Mechanical Engineering

Courses

Robotics practicals

The practicals can include the following topics:
  • Teaching Robots to Accomplish a Manipulation Task
  • Experimenting with haptic interfaces
  • Controlling a serial robot ABB IRB 120
  • Control of the Micro Delta Direct Drive robot
  • LiniX, linear axis, assembly and control

Aerial robotics

The course provides an introduction to the design, control, and applications of aerial robots. Students will be able to translate theoretical concepts into practice by means of hands-on exercises with simulated and real drones.

Evolutionary robotics

The course gives an introduction to evolutionary computation, its major algorithms, applications to optimization problems (including evolution of neural networks), and application to design and control of robots. It includes software exercises and project to evolve, build, and test a robot.