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Vaios Papaspyros
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Predicting the long-term collective behaviour of fish pairs with deep learning
Francesco Mondada, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Vaios Papaspyros
Modern computing has enhanced our understanding of how social interactions shape collective behaviour in animal societies. Although analytical models dominate in studying collective behaviour, this study introduces a deep learning model to assess social in ...
2024Quantifying the biomimicry gap in biohybrid robot-fish pairs
Francesco Mondada, Vaios Papaspyros
Biohybrid systems in which robotic lures interact with animals have become compelling tools for probing and identifying the mechanisms underlying collective animal behavior. One key challenge lies in the transfer of social interaction models from simulatio ...
2024A biohybrid interaction framework for the integration of robots in animal societies
Francesco Mondada, Daniel Burnier, Vaios Papaspyros, Raphael Cherfan
The collective behavior of animals has been traditionally studied through observation, quantitative models of behavior, and devices of low intelligence. Nowadays, the advancements in the field of robotics allow for closed-loop experiments that occur in rea ...
2023Challenges and approaches in bridging the biomimicry gap in biohybrid systems of fish and robots
As the field of ethology advances, especially over the past two decades, the role of animal-robot interaction tools has increasingly become essential. This importance arises from the need for controlled, repetitive, repeatable, and long-duration experiment ...
EPFL2023The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school
Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Evgeniia Bonnet, Bernard Baumberger
Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...
2022Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots
Francesco Mondada, Taavet Kangur, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Laura Mathex
Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...
Springer, Cham2021A data-driven method for reconstructing and modelling social interactions in moving animal groups
Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Vaios Papaspyros
Group-living organisms that collectively migrate range from cells and bacteria to human crowds, and include swarms of insects, schools of fish, and flocks of birds or ungulates. Unveiling the behavioural and cognitive mechanisms by which these groups coord ...
2020Bidirectional interactions facilitate the integration of a robot into a shoal of zebrafish Danio rerio
Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Vaios Papaspyros, Bertrand Eric Collignon
Many studies on collective animal behavior seek to identify the individual rules that underlie collective patterns. However, it was not until the recent advancements of micro-electronic and embedded systems that scientists were able to create mixed groups ...
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