Peer-reviewed Articles

ASEBA: A Modular Architecture for Event-Based Control of Complex Robots

Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Michael Bonani, Valentin Longchamp, and Francesco Mondada. In In IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2010. To appear.

Affordable SLAM through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology

Stéphane Magnenat, Valentin Longchamp, Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz, Paolo Germano, Bleuler, Hannes, and Francesco Mondada. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010, 2010. To appear.

Planner9, a HTN planner distributed on groups of miniature mobile robots

Stéphane Magnenat, Martin Voelkle, Francesco Mondada. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Singapore, December 16–18, 2009.

The Hand-bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation

Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Francesco Mondada. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Singapore, December 16–18, 2009.

Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the Brazil nut effect

Roderich Groß, Stephane Magnenat, and Francesco Mondada. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS), pages 4349–4356, St. Louis, MO, USA, October 11–15, 2009.

Aseba Meets D-Bus: From the Depths of a Low-Level Event-Based Architecture into the Middleware Realm

Stéphane Magnenat and Francesco Mondada. In IEEE TC-Soft Workshop on Event-based Systems in Robotics (EBS-RO), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 15, 2009.

Towards an Autonomous Evolution of Non-Biological Physical Organisms

Roderich Groß, Stephane Magnenat, Lorenz Küchler, Vasili Massaras, Michael Bonani, Francesco Mondada. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, 2009.

The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Xavier Raemy, James Pugh, Christopher Cianci, Adam Klaptocz, Stéphane Magnenat, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Alcherio Martinoli. In 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions - Robotica, 2009.

Scripting the swarm: event-based control of microcontroller-based robots

Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Basilio Noris, and Francesco Mondada. In International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Workshop Proceedings, ISBN: 978-88-95872-01-8, 2008.

Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming

Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris, and Francesco Mondada. In Second International Conference on Fun and Games, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 65–74, Springer Verlag, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88322-7, 2008.

Ishtar: a flexible and lightweight software for remote data access

Antoine Beyeler, Stéphane Magnenat, Alexandre Habersaat. In European Micro Air Vehicle Conference (EMAV), 2008.

ASEBA, an event-based middleware for distributed robot control

Stéphane Magnenat, Valentin Longchamp, Francesco Mondada. In Workshops DVD of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007.

Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots

Dario Floreano, Sara Mitri, Stéphane Magnenat, Laurent Keller. In Current Biology, vol. 17, pages 1–6, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.058, 2007.

Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

Markus Waibel, Dario Floreano, Stéphane Magnenat, Laurent Keller. In Proceedings of the Royal Society B., DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513, 2006.

Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, André Guignard, Stéphane Magnenat, Christian Studer, Dario Floreano. In Proceedings of the VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 282–291. Springer Verlag, DOI: 10.1007/11553090, 2005.

Physical connections and cooperation in swarm robotics

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, André Guignard, Dario Floreano. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS8), pages 53–60. IOS Press, 2004. Conference, Amsterdam, NL, March 10–14, 2004.