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Control of Bio-Inspired Sprawling Posture Quadruped Robots with an Actuated Spine

Sprawling posture robots are characterized by upper limb segments protruding horizontally from the body, resulting in lower body height and wider support on the ground. Combined with an actuated segmented spine and tail, such morphology resembles that of s ...

EPFL2018

Detecting animals in African Savanna with UAVs and the crowds

Stéphane Joost, Devis Tuia

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer new opportunities for wildlife monitoring, with several advantages over traditional field-based methods. They have readily been used to count birds, marine mammals and large herbivores in different environments, tasks ...

Elsevier2017

Advances in farm animal genomic resources

Stéphane Joost

The history of livestock started with the domestication of their wild ancestors: a restricted number of species allowed to be tamed and entered a symbiotic relationship with humans. In exchange for food, shelter and protection, they provided us with meat, ...

Frontiers2016

Combining UAV-imagery and machine learning for wildlife conservation

Semi-arid savannas are endangered by changes in the fragile equilibrium between rainfalls, fires and grazing pressure exerted by wildlife or cattle. To avoid bush encroachment and the decline of perennial grass, land managers must pay attention to keep the ...

2016

An Intact Small Animal Model of Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion: Characterization of Metabolic Changes by Hyperpolarized 13C MR Spectroscopy

Arnaud Comment, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Hikari Ananda Infinity Yoshihara

Hyperpolarized carbon-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((13)C MRS) enables the sensitive and noninvasive assessment of the metabolic changes occurring during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion. Ischemia-reperfusion models using hyperpolarized (13)C MRS are ...

2015

Biogeoinformatics of livestock genomic resources

Stéphane Joost

In 2008, FAO and WAAP published a report on production environment descriptors for animal genetic resources. One of the main conclusions was that it was necessary to quickly systematize the recording of breeds’ geographical coordinates worldwide in order t ...

2014

Social Adaptation of Robots for Modulating Self-Organization in Animal Societies

Francesco Mondada, Robert Matthew Mills, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira

The goal of the work presented here is to influence the overall behaviour of specific animal societies by integrating computational mechatronic devices (robots) into those societies. To do so, these devices should be accepted by the animals as part of the ...

IEEE2014

Lactate brain metabolism in different mouse strains probed by hyperpolarized 13C MRS

Rolf Gruetter, Bernard Lanz, Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Tian Cheng, Arnaud Comment, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Yuhei Takado

Lactate plays an important role in brain energetics and is essential for neuronal function. Alteration of its metabolism might be associated with mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative disorders1. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the potential ...

2013

Towards bio-hybrid systems made of social animals and robots

Francesco Mondada

For making artificial systems collaborate with group-living animals, the scientific challenge is to build artificial systems that can perceive, communicate to, interact with and adapt to animals. When such capabilities are available then it should be possi ...

Springer2013

Reinforcement Learning Using a Continuous Time Actor-Critic Framework with Spiking Neurons

Wulfram Gerstner, Nicolas Frémaux

Animals repeat rewarded behaviors, but the physiological basis of reward-based learning has only been partially elucidated. On one hand, experimental evidence shows that the neuromodulator dopamine carries information about rewards and affects synaptic pla ...

Public Library of Science2013

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