Publications by Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Semi- or fully-autonomous Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) are currently studied and developed by public and private organizations as a solution for traffic congestion. While optimal collision-free navigation algorithms have been proposed for autonomous rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Bioinspired morphing wings for extended flight envelope and roll control of small drones

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Flavio Noca, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Matteo Di Luca

Small-winged drones can face highly varied aerodynamic requirements, such as high manoeuvrability for flight among obstacles and high wind resistance for constant ground speed against strong headwinds that cannot all be optimally addressed by a single aero ...

Royal Society, The2017

Extension of a ground control interface for swarms of Small Drones

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Although the technology for fully autonomous swarms of robots is rapidly progressing, the human operator will continue to play an important role during any swarming mission due to safety, monitoring and control constraints. In this paper, we present the se ...

Springer2016

Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks

Dario Floreano, Bixio Rimoldi, Stefano Rosati, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Karol Jacek Kruzelecki

This paper reports experimental results on self-organizing wireless networks carried by small flying robots. Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) composed of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are flexible, inexpensive and fast to deploy. This makes them a v ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Rapid Evolution of Robot Gaits

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz

The promise of Evolutionary Robotics (ER) to completely automatize the design of robot controllers and/or morphologies is an idea with great appeal not only to researchers, but also to students. However, when attempting to grab and hold student interest, t ...

ACM2015

Evaluation of control strategies for fixed-wing drones following slow-moving ground agents

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Maja Varga

There are many situations where fixed-wing drones may be required to track ground moving agents, such as humans or cars, which are typically slower than drones. Some control strategies have been proposed and validated in simulations using the average dista ...

Elsevier2015

Extension of a Ground Control Interface for Swarms of Small Drones

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Although the technology for fully autonomous swarms of robots is rapidly progressing, the human operator will continue to play an important role during any swarming mission due to safety, monitoring and control constraints. In this paper, we present the se ...

2015

Distributed Formation Control of Fixed Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles for Uniform Area Coverage

Dario Floreano, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Meysam Basiri, Maja Varga

Teams of fixed wing micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) could provide a wide area coverage and relay data in wireless ad-hoc networks. In such applications fixed wing MAVs have to be able to regulate an inter-robot distance. Fixed wing MAVs have reduced maneuvera ...

2015

RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

Dario Floreano, Ilya Loshchilov, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Andrea Maesani, Ludovic Daler, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski, Titus Cieslewski, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Deniz Aydin, Pradeep Ruben Fernando

Science instructors from a wide range of disciplines agree that hands-on laboratory components of courses are pedagogically necessary (Freedman, 1997). However, certain shortcomings of current laboratory exercises have been pointed out by several authors ( ...

The MIT Press2014

Testbed for Fast-Deployable Flying WiFi Networks

Dario Floreano, Bixio Rimoldi, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Stefano Rosati, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Karol Jacek Kruzelecki, Alberto Jimenez Pacheco

EPFL's Information Processing Group (IPG) and Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (LIS), in conjunction with SenseFly (a LIS spin-off) recently started a project aimed at developing a testbed to experiment with self-organized wireless networks carried by au ...

2013