Jean-Christophe Zufferey

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An Indoor Flying Platform with Collision Robustness and Self-Recovery

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Grégoire Boutinard Rouelle

This paper presents a new paradigm in the design of indoor flying robots that replaces collision avoidance with collision robustness. Indoor flying robots must operate within constrained and cluttered environments where even nature’s most sophisticated fly ...

IEEE2010

Reverse-engineering of Artificially Evolved Controllers for Swarms of Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert

It is generally challenging to design decentralized controllers for swarms of robots because there is often no obvious relation between the individual robot behaviors and the final behavior of the swarm. As a solution, we use artificial evolution to automa ...

2009

Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

This paper presents a novel control strategy, which we call optiPilot, for autonomous flight in the vicinity of obstacles. Most existing autopilots rely on a complete 6-degree-of-freedom state estimation using a GPS and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) a ...

2009

Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert

2009

A Minimalist Control Strategy for Small UAVs

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Severin Leven

Most autopilots of existing Miniature Unmanned Air Vehicles (MUAVs) rely on control architectures that typically use a large number of sensors (gyros, accelerometers, magnetometers, GPS) and a computationally demanding estimation of flight states. As a con ...

IEEE2009

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, James Pugh, Adam Klaptocz, Christopher Cianci, Xavier Raemy

Mobile robots have the potential to become the ideal tool to teach a broad range of engineering disciplines. Indeed, mobile robots are getting increasingly complex and accessible. They embed elements from diverse ﬁelds such as mechanics, digital electronic ...

IPCB: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco2009

optiPilot: control of take-off and landing using optic flow

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

Take-off and landing manoeuvres are critical for MAVs because GPS-based autopilots usually do not perceive distance to the ground or other potential obstacles. In addition, attitude estimates based on inertial sensors are often perturbed by the strong acce ...

2009

2.5D Infrared Range and Bearing System for Collective Robotics

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Timothy Stirling, James Roberts

In the growing field of collective robotics, spatial co-ordination between robots is often critical and usually achieved via local relative positioning sensors. We believe that range and bearing sensing, based on infrared technology, has the potential to f ...

2009

A Miniature Jumping Robot with Self-Recovery Capabilities

Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Manuel Schlegel

In nature, many animals are able to jump, upright themselves after landing and jump again. This allows them to move in unstructured and rough terrain. As a further development of our previously presented 7g jumping robot, we consider various mechanisms ena ...

2009

Energy Management for Indoor Hovering Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, James Roberts

Flying has an advantage when compared to ground based locomotion, as it simplifies the task of overcoming obstacles and allows for rapid coverage of an area while also providing a birds-eye-view of the environment. One of the key challenges that has preven ...

2008

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