Publications by Masoud Asadpour

Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Self-amplification processes are at the origin of several collective decision phenomena in insect societies. Understanding these processes requires linking individual behavioral rules of insects to a choice dynamics at the colony level. In a homogeneous en ...

2009

An active connection mechanism for modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems based on physical latching

Auke Ijspeert, Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Yvan Bourquin

This article presents a robust and heavy duty physical latching connection mechanism, which can be actuated with DC motors to actively connect and disconnect modular robot units. The special requirements include a lightweight and simple construction provid ...

2008

Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Aude Billard, Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz

This project incorporates modular robots as building blocks for furniture that moves and self-reconfigures. The reconfiguration is done using dynamic connection / disconnection of modules and rotations of the degrees of freedom. This paper introduces a new ...

2008

Locomotion in modular robots based on central pattern generators

Auke Ijspeert, Masoud Asadpour, Alexander Spröwitz, Rico Möckel, Jérôme Maye

2008

The embodiment of cockroach aggregation behavior in a group of micro-robots

Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Simon Garnier

We report the faithful reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of the biological model provided by Jeanson et al. in Alice robots, and we com ...

2008

Knowledge-based Extraction of Area of Expertise for Cooperation in Learning

Roland Siegwart, Masoud Asadpour

Using each other's knowledge and expertise in learning - what we call cooperation in learning- is one of the major existing methods to reduce the number of learning trials, which is quite crucial for real world applications. In situated systems, robots bec ...

2007

Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

Alcherio Martinoli, Roland Siegwart, Francesco Mondada, Fabien Tâche, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Nicolaus Correll, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Collective behavior based on self-organization has been shown in group-living animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have stimulated engineers to investigate approaches for the coordination of autonomous multirobot systems based on self-organi ...

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Masoud Asadpour

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Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

An active connection mechanism for modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems based on physical latching

Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning

Locomotion in modular robots based on central pattern generators

The embodiment of cockroach aggregation behavior in a group of micro-robots

Knowledge-based Extraction of Area of Expertise for Cooperation in Learning

Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

Adaptive Locomotion Control in Modular Robotics

Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Cooperative Learning via Combining Decision Trees

Reduction of Learning Time for Robots Using Automatic State Abstraction

Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

The embodiment of cockroach aggregation behavior in a group of micro-robots

An active connection mechanism for modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems based on physical latching

Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Cooperative Learning via Combining Decision Trees

Reduction of Learning Time for Robots Using Automatic State Abstraction

Knowledge-based Extraction of Area of Expertise for Cooperation in Learning

Graph signature for self-reconfiguration planning

Adaptive Locomotion Control in Modular Robotics

Locomotion in modular robots based on central pattern generators

Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices