Simon Bovet

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Andreasstrasse 15 (Office 2.16)

8050 Zurich
Switzerland

phone: +41 44 635 43 42
fax: +41 44 635 45 07
e-mail: bovet -- at -- ifi.uzh.ch

Research

Understanding Natural Behaviors. Do robots only reflect the intelligence of their designers? Can we learn anything from robots equipped with artificial brains that develop spontaneously, without any task or goal? Will this allow us to better understand natural organisms?

Publications

2006

Simon Bovet

Emergence of Insect Navigation Strategies from Homogeneous Sensorimotor Coupling

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo

Miriam Fend, Simon Bovet and Rolf Pfeifer

On the influence of morphology of tactile sensors for behavior and control

Robotics and Autonomous Systems 54(8):686-695

2005

Simon Bovet and Rolf Pfeifer

Emergence of Delayed Reward Learning from Sensorimotor Coordination

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton.

Simon Bovet and Rolf Pfeifer

Emergence of Coherent Behaviors from Homogenous Sensorimotor Coupling

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Seattle.

2004

Miriam Fend, Simon Bovet, and Verena Vanessa Hafner

The Artificial Mouse - A Robot with Whiskers and Vision

Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), Paris

Simon Bovet, Miriam Fend and Rolf Pfeifer

Simulating Whisker Sensors - on the Role of Material Properties for Morphology, Behavior and Evolution

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Los Angeles

Miriam Fend , Roland Abt, Marco Diefenbacher, Simon Bovet and Martin Krafft

Morphology and Learning - A Case Study on Whiskers

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Los Angeles

2003

Fend, Miriam, Bovet, Simon, Pfeifer, Yokoi, Hiroshi Rolf

An active artificial whisker array for texture discrimination

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas

Teaching

Formale Grundlagen der Informatik II