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Fields of interest:

I'm currently interested in designing animats -- i.e., simulated animals or real robots -- that are able to adapt to changing environments through biomimetic processes of learning, development and evolution. My main concern is the study of how these basic adaptive processes interact in nature and how they may be put at work in artificial systems. In paricular, I’m heading the Psikharpax project, which aims at designing an artificial rat.

Recent publications:

Guillot, A. and Meyer, J.-A. :
Bionics: When science imitates nature. 
The MIT Press. (in press)

Angeli, A., Filliat, D., Doncieux, S., and Meyer, J.-A.:
A fast and incremental method for loop-closure detection using bags of visual words.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics. (in press)

Meyer, J.-A. and Guillot, A.:
Biologically-inspired robots. 
In Siciliano, B. and Khatib, O., editors, 
Handbook of Robotics., 2008, Springer-Verlag.

de Margerie, E., Mouret, J.-B., Doncieux, S., and Meyer, J.-A.:
Artificial evolution of the morphology and kinematics in a flapping-wing mini UAV. 
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 2, (2007), pp. 65-82.

Barate, R., Doncieux, S., and Meyer, J.-A.:
Design of a bio-inspired controller for dynamic soaring in a simulated UAV. 
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 1, (2006), pp. 76-88.

Girard, B., Filliat, D., Meyer, J.-A., Berthoz, A., and Guillot, A.:
Integration of navigation and action selection functionalities in a computational model of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loops. 
Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 13(2), (2005), pp.115-130.

Meyer, J.-A., Guillot, A., Girard, B., Khamassi, M., Pirim, P., and Berthoz, A.:
The Psikharpax project: Towards building an artificial rat.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 50(4), (2005), pp. 211-223.

Muratet, L., Doncieux, S., Bričre, Y., and Meyer, J.-A.:
A contribution to vision-based autonomous helicopter flight in urban environments. 
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 50(4), (2005), pp. 195-209.