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- Title
From wheels to wings with evolutionary spiking circuits.
- Authors
Floreano, Dario; Zufferey, Jean-Christophe; Nicoud, Jean-Daniel
- Abstract
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 nonlinear flight dynamics. This ongoing project consists of developing a flying, vision-based micro-robot, a bio-inspired controller composed of adaptive spiking neurons directly mapped into digital microcontrollers, and a method to evolve such a neural controller without human intervention. This article 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.
- Publication
Artificial life, 2005, Vol 11, Issue 1-2, p121
- ISSN
1064-5462
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1162/1064546053278900