文档介绍：EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS OF WORKS
THÈSE NO 3199 (2005)
PRÉSENTÉE À LA FACULTÉ SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES DE L'INGÉNIEUR
Institut d'ingénierie des systèmes
SECTION DE MICROTECHNIQUE
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE
POUR L'OBTENTION DU GRADE DE DOCTEUR ÈS SCIENCES
PAR
Claudio MATTIUSSI
laurea in ingegneria elettronica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italie
et de nationalité italienne
acceptée sur proposition du jury:
Prof. D. Floreano, directeur de thèse
Prof. I. Harvey, rapporteur
Prof. A. Ijspeert, rapporteur
Dr B. McMullin, rapporteur
Lausanne, EPFL
2005
DOCTORAL THESIS
Evolutionary synthesis
of works
Claudio Mattiussi
LABORATORY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
INSTITUTE OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
c 2004, 2005, Claudio Mattiussi
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
Institute of System Engineering
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Acknowledgments
There are so many people that I would like to thank.
First, my thanks go to my supervisor, Prof. Dario Floreano, for mak-
ing this thesis possible by accepting me in his team and providing sup-
port, guidance and freedom in the friendly and motivating atmosphere
of the laboratory.
Many thanks to Prof. Laurent Keller and Prof. Roland Siegwart for
having accepted to be members of the mittee, and to Dr.
Inman Harvey, Prof. Auke Jan Ijspeert and Dr. Barry McMullin for
having accepted to act as members of the doctoral examination board
and for their many ments. I also thank Prof. Edoardo
Charbon for his help and interest in my work.
I warmly thank Dominique Etienne and Marie-Jo Pellaud for making
things happen in the laboratory and for providing help, encouragement,
and friendship when it was most needed.
A great “Thanks!” all my present and past colleagues in the LIS and
ASL teams, and especially to Antoine Beyeler, Jesper Blynel, Michael
Bonani, Michele Bongiovanni, Gilles Caprari, Diego Federici, Yannic