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

• 2009-11-01 Welcome to Ezequiel Di Mario (M.Sc., Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), Argentina) as visiting research assistant.
• 2009-09-28 Welcome to Maria Boberg (M.Sc., Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden) as visiting research assistant. She will be working on the Smart Bridge project.
  

Events and Seminars (organized by or involving DISAL)

• 2009-09-08 Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Sensor-to-Sensor Self-Calibration, by Jon Kelly, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• 2009-09-18 at 16:15 in GR A 330, Scalable underwater communication for large scale swarms and Haptic feedback for hovering vehicle control, Felix Schill, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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