Franck Ruffier — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Antflie: Frugal Visual Teach and Repeat on Narrow FoV Micro-Drones

Gabriel G. Gattaux, Hamidou Diallo, Julien R. Serres, Antoine Wystrach, Franck Ruffier

RA-L 2026

We present an insect-inspired visual teach-and-repeat framework demonstrated on Antflie, a 33-gram MAV equipped with an ultra-low-resolution camera (24× 24 px) and a narrow 87% field of view (FoV). During a one-shot teach flight along an outbound route, the MAV performs periodic physical scans and u

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2016

Optic-flow based car-like robot operating in a 5-decade light level range

Stefano Mafrica, Alain Servel, Franck Ruffier

ICRA 2016

In this paper, we present (i) a novel bio-inspired 1-D OF sensor which is robust to high-dynamic-range lighting conditions and independent of the visual patterns encountered, and (ii) a low-cost car-like robot called BioCarBot, which estimates its velocity and steering angle by means of an Extended

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