Francesco Mondada is a Swiss

Switzerland

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 researcher in artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

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 and robotics

Robotics

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. He is one of the creators of the Khepera

Khepera mobile robot

The Khepera is a small differential wheeled mobile robot that was developed at the LAMI laboratory of Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud at EPFL in the mid '90s. It was developed by Edo...

, the S-bot and the e-puck

E-puck mobile robot

The e-puck is a small differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof...

 mobile robots. He got a Master's degree

Master's degree

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 in Microengineering at the EPFL in 1991 and a Ph.D.

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 degree in 1997.

He was the director of K-team SA from its creation 1995 to 2000, and one of the founders of Calerga Sarl in 2001. He has received several industrial and academic prizes, among whose the Swiss Latsis

Latsis Foundation

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.

His recent work concerns collective robotics and education.

Selected publications

• J. Halloy, G. Sempo, G. Caprari, C. Rivault, M. Asadpour, F. Tache, I. Said, V. Durier, S. Canonge, J. Ame, C. Detrain, N. Correll, A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, R. Siegwart, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices. Science, 318(5853):1155-1158, 2007. http://infoscience.epfl.ch/getfile.py?recid=114099&mode=best

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5853/1155

• F. Mondada, G. C. Pettinaro, A. Guignard, I. Kwee, D. Floreano, J.-L. Deneubourg, S. Nolfi, L. Gambardella, and M. Dorigo. SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, 17(2-3):193-221, 2004. September - November 2004 Sponsor: swarm-bots, OFES 01-0012-1. http://infoscience.epfl.ch/getfile.py?recid=63979&mode=best
• D. Floreano and F. Mondada. Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, 26(3):396-407, 1996. http://infoscience.epfl.ch/getfile.py?docid=7184&name=floreano&format=IEEE-SMC.pdf&version=1
• F. Mondada, E. Franzi, P. Ienne, T. Yoshikawa, and F. Miyazaki. Mobile Robot Miniaturization: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms. In Experimental Robotics III, volume 200 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pages 501-13. Springer, London, 1994.

External links

• Professional homepage with a list of publications (Google scholar)
• Mobots group homepage of the research group of F. Mondada
• Personal homepage