Research Projects

Current projects (2007)









Past projects (around 2000)

  • Embodied Artificial Evolution
  • The Evolution of Non-Trivial Behaviour
  • The Artificial Embryology and Evolvability
  • Artificial Growth Mechanisms
  • Evolving Sensor Morphologies using Adaptive Hardware
  • Reconfigurable Modular Robots
  • Artificial Morphogenesis
  • HYDRA
  • Navigation / Locomotion projects
  • Sahabot
  • Route learning in ants and robots
  • Analog robot
  • Flying robot
  • Navigation and Map Building
  • Adaptive Homing
  • Biped robot
  • Rapid quadruped robots
  • Developmental Robotics / Neural modelling projects
  • Developmental Robotics
  • Explorations in embodied cognition
  • Selective attention mechanisms
  • Spinal locomotor mechanisms
  • Amouse
  • Collective behavior projects
  • Self-organisation and social behaviour in real animals and in a virtual world
  • Flocking robots
  • Coordination among artificial agents and real creatures
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    (around the end of 80s - 90s)

  • Expert systems development
  • Banker's Assistant (with Credit Suisse)
  • Technical diagnosis and repair (with TECAN)
  • Statistics Advisor (for psychology students)
  • Diagnosis of Borderline Disorders
  • Development of hybrid expert systems (combination of rule-based and neural network-based systems)
  • Methods for knowledge acquisition (cooperation with psychology department)
  • Other projects in the area of AI/Cognitive Science
  • Situated design (together with dept. of Operations Research of ETH and Paper Mill Biberist)
  • Psychological models of emotion (Pfeifer)
  • Application of AI to psychoanalysis (together with Gesamthochschule Kassel and Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt)
  • Analogical problem solving
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