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The population genetics of crypsis in vertebrates: recent insights from mice, hares, and lizards
Jeffrey David Jensen, Susanne Petra Pfeifer, Stefan Jean Laurent
By combining well-established population genetic theory with high-throughput sequencing data from natural populations, major strides have recently been made in understanding how, why, and when vertebrate populations evolve crypsis. Here, we focus on backgr ...
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Julien Jean Denis Nicolas Lecoeur
Flying robots are increasingly used for tasks such as aerial mapping, fast exploration, video footage and monitoring of buildings.
Autonomous flight at low altitude in cluttered and unknown environments is an active research topic because it poses challen ...
EPFL2019Conceptual design and proof-of-principle testing of the real-time multispectral imaging system MANTIS
Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers
The Multispectral Advanced Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System (MANTIS) is proposed to resolve the steep temperature and density gradients in the scrape-off layer of tokamaks in real-time. The initial design is to deliver two-dimensional distributions of key ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2017A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Kevin Nicholas Cradock Owen
Flying robots are increasingly adopted in search and rescue missions because of their capability to quickly collect and stream information from remote and dangerous areas. To further enhance their use, we are investigating the development of a new class of ...
Ieee2016A Miniaturized Insect Eye Inspired Multi-camera Real-time Panoramic Imaging System
During the last 50 years miniaturization became a key element in human history, since it opens doors for manufacturing new devices that enhances the quality of human life. Camera and imaging systems are following this miniaturization trend as well. Meanwhi ...
EPFL2015A small-scale hyperacute compound eye featuring active eye tremor: application to visual stabilization, target tracking, and short-range odometry
In this study, a miniature artificial compound eye (15 mm in diameter) called the curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) was endowed for the first time with hyperacuity, using similar micro-movements to those occurring in the fly's compound eye. A period ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2015The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings
Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Wassim Hraiz, Oriol Fauria Torrent
Recent work suggests that wings can be used to prolong the jumps of miniature jumping robots. However, no functional miniature jumping robot has been presented so far that can successfully apply this hybrid locomotion principle. In this publication, we pre ...
2011Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude
Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey
A recent study sheds new light on the visual cues used by Drosophila to regulate flight altitude. The striking similarity with previously identified steering mechanisms provides a coherent basis for novel models of vision-based flight control in insects an ...
Elsevier2010Colonization of the salivary glands of Naucoris cimicoides by Mycobacterium ulcerans requires host plasmatocytes and a macrolide toxin, mycolactone
Mycobacterium ulcerans was first identified as the causative agent of Buruli ulcer; this cutaneous tissue-destructive process represents the third most important mycobacterial disease in humans after tuberculosis and leprosy. More recently other life trait ...
2005Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do 'arm races' arise in artificial evolution?
Co-evolution (i.e. the evolution of two or more competing populations with coupled fitness) has several features that may potentially enhance the power of adaptation of artificial evolution. In particular, as discussed by Dawkins and Krebs [3], competing p ...
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