Publications by Egidio Falotico

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Francesco Stella, Egidio Falotico

Elephants and other animals heavily rely on the sense of smell to operate. Soft robots would also benefit from an artificial sense of smell, which could be helpful in typical soft robotic tasks such as search and rescue, pipe inspection, and all the tasks ...

IEEE2023

Experimental and Computational Study on Motor Control and Recovery After Stroke: Toward a Constructive Loop Between Experimental and Virtual Embodied Neuroscience

Auke Ijspeert, Silvestro Micera, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Emanuele Formento, Maria Pasquini, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Axel von Arnim, Emmanouil Angelidis

Being able to replicate real experiments with computational simulations is a unique opportunity to refine and validate models with experimental data and redesign the experiments based on simulations. However, since it is technically demanding to model all ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Running Large-Scale Simulations on the Neurorobotics Platform to Understand Vision - The Case of Visual Crowding

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Alban Bornet, Egidio Falotico, Alessandro Ambrosano

Traditionally, human vision research has focused on specific paradigms and proposed models to explain very specific properties of visual perception. However, the complexity and scope of modern psychophysical paradigms undermine the success of this approach ...

2019

Connecting Artificial Brains to Robots in a Comprehensive Simulation Framework: The Neurorobotics Platform

Daniel Peppicelli, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Luc Guyot, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Axel von Arnim, Paul Levi, Georg Hinkel, Stefan Ulbrich, Eduardo Ros

Combined efforts in the fields of neuroscience, computer science, and biology allowed to design biologically realistic models of the brain based on spiking neural networks. For a proper validation of these models, an embodiment in a dynamic and rich sensor ...

2017

A Framework for Coupled Simulations of Robots and Spiking Neuronal Networks

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Georg Hinkel, Stefan Ulbrich, Nino Cauli, Oliver Denninger, Henning Groenda

Bio-inspired robots still rely on classic robot control although advances in neurophysiology allow adaptation to control as well. However, the connection of a robot to spiking neuronal networks needs adjustments for each purpose and requires frequent adapt ...

Springer Verlag2017

Retina Color-Opponency Based Pursuit Implemented Through Spiking Neural Networks in the Neurorobotics Platform

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Paul Levi, Georg Hinkel, Stefan Ulbrich, Alessandro Ambrosano, Ugo Albanese, Murat Kirtay

The 'red-green' pathway of the retina is classically recognized as one of the retinal mechanisms allowing humans to gather color information from light, by combining information from L-cones and M-cones in an opponent way. The precise retinal circuitry tha ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016