PhD Thesis

Navigation in Biorobotic Agents

Papers

• Hemelrijk, C & Lambrinos, D 1994. Performance of Two Homing Strategies in Environments with Differently Distributed Obstacles. Proc. From Perception to Action[Perac'94]. p. 352-355
• Lambrinos, D 1995. Navigating with an Adaptive Light Compass. Proc. European Conference in Artificial Life '95[ECAL'95]. p. 602-613
• Lambrinos, D & Scheier, C & Pfeifer R 1995. Unsupervised Classification of Sensory-Motor states in a Real World Artifact using a Temporal Kohonen Map. Proc. International Conference in Artificial Neural Networks '95[ICANN'95]. p. 467-472
• Scheier, C & Lambrinos, D. Adaptive Classification in Autonomous Agents (Best paper award). In proc. of EMCSR (European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna). p. 1037-1042
• Scheier, C & Lambrinos, D. Categorization in a real-world agent using haptic exploration and active perception. In proc. of SAB96 (FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS, Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, September 9-13, 1996), p. 65-74
• Lambrinos, D. & Scheier, C. Building Complete Autonomous Agents: A Case Study on Categorization. In proc. of IROS'96, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, November 4-8, 1996, Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan. p. 170-177
• Lambrinos, D. & Maris, M. & Kobayashi, H. & Labhart, T. & Pfeifer, R. & Wehner, R. An autonomous agent navigating with a polarized light compass. Adaptive Behavior, Vol 6, No 1, p. 131-161
• Lambrinos, D. & Maris, M. & Kobayashi, H. & Labhart, T. & Pfeifer, R. & Wehner, R. Navigating with a polarized light compass. Self-Learning Robots II: Bio-robotics (Digest No. 1998/248), IEE. p. 7/1-7/4.
• Lambrinos, D. & Moeller, R. & Pfeifer, R. & Wehner, R 1998. Modeling visual landmark navigation with autonomous agents. In proc. of the 26th Goettingen Neurobiology Conference. Vol. 1, p. 210.
• Lambrinos, D. & Moeller, R. & Pfeifer, R. & Wehner, R 1998. Landmark Navigation without Snapshots: the Average Landmark Vector Model. In proc. of the 26th Goettingen Neurobiology Conference. Vol. 1, p. 221.
• Lambrinos, D. & Moeller, R. & Pfeifer, R. & Wehner, R 2000. Navigation as part of the whole iguana. International Workshop Towards the Whole Iguana, (ALife Workshop), Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
• Moeller, R. Lambrinos, D. & Pfeifer, R. & Labhart, T. & Wehner, R 1998. Modeling Ant Navigation with an Autonomous Agent. to appear In proc. of the 5th International conference on simulation of adaptive behavior (SAB98), Zurich, Switzerland.
• Moeller, R. & Maris, M. & Lambrinos, D.; 1998. A Neural Model of Landmark Navigation in Insects. to appear In proc. of COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE '98, July 1998, Santa Barbara, California.
• Iida F., Lambrinos, D. (2000). Navigation in an Autonomous Flying Robot by Using a Biologically Inspired Visual Odometer. Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 4196. Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III, Gerard T. McKee; Paul S. Schenker, Editors, pp.86-581
• Lambrinos D., Möller R., Labhart T., Pfeifer R., Wehner R. (2000) A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 30:39-64
• Rolf Pfeifer, Dimitrios Lambrinos (2002). Cheap Vision—Exploiting Ecological Niche and Morphology. SOFSEM 2000: Theory and Practice of Informatics Volume 1963 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 202-226.
• Sakura S, Lambrinos D, Labhart T (2008) Polarized skylight Navigation in insects: model and electrophysiology of e-vector coding by neurons in the central complex. J Neurophysiol 99:667-682

Best paper awards

• Scheier, C & Lambrinos, D. Adaptive Classification in Autonomous Agents. In proc. of EMCSR (European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna). p. 1037-1042

Reports

• Lambrinos, D 1994. Khep_xv: An application tool for visualizing the sensory and internal state of the mobile robot Khepera. AILab Tech. Report 94.12.
• Scheier, C & Lambrinos, D. Adaptive Classification in Autonomous Agents. AILab Tech. Report 95.12.
• Lambrinos, D & Scheier, C. Extended Braitenberg Architectures. AILab Tech. Report 95.10.
• Scheier, C & Lambrinos, D. Categorization in a real-world agent using haptic exploration and active perception. AILab Tech. Report No. 96.1.
• Lambrinos, D. & Scheier, C. Building Complete Autonomous Agents: A Case Study on Categorization. AILab Tech. Report No. 96.2.
• Lambrinos, D. Navigation in Biorobotics. Universität Zürich. Forschungsdatenbank. Projektübersicht

In the Press

• Von Menschen, Maschinen und Wüstenameisen. Computerprogramme sind nicht der Weisheit letzter Schluss. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21. Januar 2000.
• Spuren im Sand. Die Zeit. 1999.

In books

• Synthetic modeling using analog hardware. Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots. edited by Joseph Ayers, Joel L. Davis, Alan Rudolph. MIT Presss, 2002.