Alireza Dirafzoon

Works (6)

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2016 article

A framework for mapping with biobotic insect networks: From local to global maps

Dirafzoon, A., Bozkurt, A., & Lobaton, E. (2016, November 11). Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 88, pp. 79–96.

By: A. Dirafzoon n, A. Bozkurt n  & E. Lobaton n 

topics (OpenAlex): Topological and Geometric Data Analysis; Advanced Vision and Imaging; Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
TL;DR: Simulation and experimental results with biologically inspired robotic platform are presented to illustrate and verify the correctness of the approach, which provides building blocks for SLAM with biobotic insects. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2016 article

Geometric Learning and Topological Inference With Biobotic Networks

Dirafzoon, A., Bozkurt, A., & Lobaton, E. (2016, October 28). IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Vol. 3, pp. 200–215.

By: A. Dirafzoon n, A. Bozkurt n  & E. Lobaton n 

author keywords: Biobotic insects; emergency response; estimation; manifold learning; mapping; topological pattern recognition
topics (OpenAlex): Topological and Geometric Data Analysis; Cell Image Analysis Techniques; Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
TL;DR: This study considers agents mimicking motion behaviors of cyborg insects, known as biobots, and exploit coordinate-free local interactions among them to infer geometric and topological information about the environment, under minimal sensing and localization constraints. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2014 article

Biobotic insect swarm based sensor networks for search and rescue

Bozkurt, A., Lobaton, E., Sichitiu, M. L., Hedrick, T., Latif, T., Dirafzoon, A., … al. (2014, June 20). (I. Kadar, Ed.). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 9091.

By: A. Bozkurt n , E. Lobaton n , M. Sichitiu n , T. Hedrick *, T. Latif n, A. Dirafzoon n, E. Whitmire n, A. Verderber n ...

Ed(s): I. Kadar

author keywords: Insect biobots; Seach and rescue; Neural engineering; Swarm robotics; Topological mapping; Sensor networks
topics (OpenAlex): Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior; Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research; Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
TL;DR: This work has benefitted from recent developments in neural engineering and neuromuscular stimulation research to fuse the locomotory advantages of insects with the latest developments in wireless networking technologies to enable biobotic insect agents to function as search-and-rescue agents. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2014 article

Mapping of unknown environments using minimal sensing from a stochastic swarm

Dirafzoon, A., Betthauser, J., Schornick, J., Benavides, D., & Lobaton, E. (2014, September 1). 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3842–3849.

By: A. Dirafzoon n, J. Betthauser n, J. Schornick n, D. Benavides n & E. Lobaton n 

topics (OpenAlex): Topological and Geometric Data Analysis; Diffusion and Search Dynamics; Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
TL;DR: A robust approach to obtain a topological map of an unknown environment using encounter information from a swarm of agents following a stochastic motion model via the use of tools from topological data analysis is proposed. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2014 article

Poster abstract: Cyborg-insect networks for mapping of unknown environments

Dirafzoon, A., Bethhauser, J., Schornick, J., Cole, J., Bozkurt, A., & Lobaton, E. (2014, April 1). 2014 Acm/Ieee International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (Iccps), pp. 216–216.

By: A. Dirafzoon n, J. Bethhauser n, J. Schornick n, J. Cole n, A. Bozkurt n  & E. Lobaton n 

topics (OpenAlex): Topological and Geometric Data Analysis; Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research; Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
TL;DR: This work proposes a robust approach to obtain a topological map of an unknown environment using the coordinate free sensory data obtained from these cyborg-insect networks, and takes advantage of the natural behavior of insects in order to estimate aTopological model of the environment based only on neighbor-to-neighbor interactions. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2013 article

Topological mapping of unknown environments using an unlocalized robotic swarm

Dirafzoon, A., & Lobaton, E. (2013, November 1). 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5545–5551.

By: A. Dirafzoon n & E. Lobaton n 

topics (OpenAlex): Topological and Geometric Data Analysis; Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems; Artificial Immune Systems Applications
TL;DR: This paper explores how stochastic motion models and weak encounter information can be exploited to learn topological information about an unknown environment and proposes a switching control mechanism for the motion models to extract features of complex environments in an effective way. (via Semantic Scholar)
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