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Floris Van Breugel

Floris van Breugel

Assistant Professor

Prospective graduate students

I am currently hiring motivated undergraduates and Ph.D. students with interest in data-driven robotics and control, multi-modal sensory integration in insects, and bio-inspired robotics.

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Research interests

We study insects for inspiration in designing robust and novel control systems for robots. Our lab uses real-time tracking, high speed video, and virtual reality to study freely moving animals. Then, aided by modern machine learning tools and control theory, we analyze the behavior, and implement the principles on robotic systems. Along the way, we use genetic tools available in the fruit fly to gain insight into how brains function.

Selected publications

Flies

  • Distinct activity-gated pathways mediate attraction and aversion to CO2 in Drosophila. van Breugel, F., Huda, A., and Dickinson, M. (2018) Nature.
  • Superhydrophobic diving flies (Ephydra hians) and the hypersaline waters of Mono Lake. van Breugel, F and Dickinson, M. (2017) PNAS.
  • Mosquitoes use vision to associate odor plumes with thermal targets. van Breugel, F., Riffell, J., Fairhall, A., and Dickinson, M. H. (2015). Current Biology.
  • Plume-Tracking behavior of flying Drosophila emerges from a set of distinct sensory-motor reflexes. van Breugel, F. and Dickinson, M. H. (2014). Current Biology.

Robots

  • Monocular distance estimation from optic flow during active landing maneuvers. van Breugel, F., Morgansen, K. A., and Dickinson, M. H. (2014). Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.
  • From insects to machines. van Breugel, F., Regan, W., and Lipson, H. (2008). Robotics and Automation Magazine.

Data

  • FigureFirst: A Layout-first Approach for Scientific Figures.
  • Lindsay, T., Weir, P., and van Breugel, F. (2017). Scipy 2017.

Courses taught

  • ME 410 - System Control
  • ME/BIOL 487 - Comparative Biomechanics