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From wheels to wings with evolutionary spiking circuits
- Source :
- Artificial life. 11(1-2)
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- We give an overview of the EPFL indoor flying project, whose goal is to evolve neural controllers for autonomous, adaptive, indoor micro-flyers. Indoor flight is still a challenge because it requires miniaturization, energy efficiency, and control of nonlinear flight dynamics. This ongoing project consists of developing a flying, vision-based micro-robot, a bio-inspired controller composed of adaptive spiking neurons directly mapped into digital microcontrollers, and a method to evolve such a neural controller without human intervention. This article describes the motivation and methodology used to reach our goal as well as the results of a number of preliminary experiments on vision-based wheeled and flying robots.
- Subjects :
- Miniaturization
business.industry
Computer science
Evolutionary robotics
Action Potentials
Control engineering
Robotics
Biological Evolution
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Microcontroller
Flight dynamics
Artificial Intelligence
Control theory
Robot
Animals
Humans
Wings, Animal
Artificial intelligence
business
Simulation
Electronic circuit
Efficient energy use
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10645462
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1-2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Artificial life
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6411c861bb357e68526b51f59016cc7b