About DISAL

The Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory (DISAL) has been founded in May 2008. DISAL is affiliated with the National Center of Competence in Mobile Communication and Information Systems, the EPFL Integrated Systems Center, the EPFL Space Center, and the EPFL Transportation Center. Among other research activities, DISAL has inherited those of the Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group (SWIS), founded in September 2003 at EPFL, and those of the Collective Robotics Group (CORO) founded in December 1999 at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A.

DISAL's research mission focuses on the development of (automatic) design, modeling, control, and optimization methodologies for distributed, intelligent systems. A special emphasis is currently set on real-time, embedded systems such as multi-robot platforms, sensor and actuators networks, and intelligent vehicles.

DISAL's teaching mission is three-fold. First, to disseminate methods and techniques used to synthesize and analyze embedded and real-time systems into the areas of civil and environmental engineering as well as architecture and design. Second, to disseminate state-of-the-art methods and techniques developed by DISAL or other laboratories around the world to synthesize and analyze distributed, intelligent systems. Third, to contribute to the education of a new generation of interdisciplinary engineers and computer scientists who are interested in enviromental, civil, or architectural applications.

News

• 2009-02-01 Welcome to José-Nuno Pereira as PhD student (IST-EPFL PhD program).
• 2009-11-01 Welcome to Ezequiel Di Mario (M.Sc., Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), Argentina) as visiting research assistant.
  

Events and Seminars (organized by or involving DISAL)

• 2010-01-26 Multi-robot olfaction: steps from open space to maze searching, by Lino Marques, in GR A3 30 at 11:15
• 2010-01-26 Field Robotics Research at the AASS Learning Systems Lab, by Achim Lilienthal, in GR A3 30 at 10:15
• September 8-10, 2010 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium
• August 24-28, 2010 From animals to animats: the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2010), Paris, France
• July 18-23, 2010 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain
• May 10-14, 2010 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada

Contact

Corinne Farquharson
EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL
GR A1 444 (Building GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Phone: +41 21 693 12 96 
Fax: +41 21 693 12 80

General Information: alcherio dot martinoli at epfl.ch
Webmaster: gregory dot mermoud at epfl.ch