Gallery

This pages gives an overview of the diverse fields of research that I conduct. Pictures are taken at workshops, during presentations, in the lab or during field experiments. Some professional photography is included with consent of the copyright holder. I also show some photos from the main organisms and organism communities I did research work with. I also showcase some pictures of the robots that I developed together with my project partners in joint research and/or I developed bio-inspired algorithms for.

(Due to the rather large collection of pictures here, this page might load rather slowly, depending also on your internet connection's speed. The photos are put here in high-res on purpose to ensure their quality.)

Some snapshots at work

At Lakeside Days (at the Lakeside Labs, Klagenfurt, Austria) in 2017

(Photo: Lakeside Labs via twitter)

Some bees, some ASSISI robots & a laser vibrometer

(Photo: Uni Graz/Kernasenko)

End of a successful midnight mission with an aMussel robot in the Venice lagoon
(with colleagues: Alexandre Campo, Godfried van Vuuren, Martin Stefanec)

During a typical lab meeting

(Photo: Uni Graz/Kernasenko)

With bees and ASSISI robots at the experimental arena

(Photo: Uni Graz/Kernasenko)

At TEDxGraz, the umbrella was an essential tool here

Discussing an aMussel robot with a colleague

(Photo: Uni Graz/Konstantinov)

Some portraits for the press

With an aMussel robot in our dark lab, in the back is an artificial tree

(Photo: Uni Graz/Kernasenko)

Final review of Symbrion/Replicator with my RoboSnake!

Many of my swarm algorithms run on such e-puck robots

In the Arsenale of Venice with an aFish & an aMussel robot

In the dark lab with aMussel robots and an artificial tree

(Photo: Uni Graz/Kernasenko)

With a prototype of the HIVELOPOLIS

(Photo: Uni Graz/Konstantinov)

With a prototype of the HIVEOPOLIS

(Photo: Uni Graz/Konstantinov)

The organisms in my research

Honeybee foraging

Climbing plants

Honeybee foraging

Structured habitats

Non-bee pollination service

Honeybee foraging

Honeybee queen and her court

Honeybee foraging

Non-bee pollination service

Diversity of non-bee pollination service

Non-bee pollination service

Honeybee brood

Honeybee comb

Honeybee with positive phototaxis

Underwater communities
(from robot underwater cam)

Microorganisms

The robots in my research

Jeff robot in CoCoRo

Artificial tree (Flora Robotica)

Large robotic organism in REPLICATOR

Honeybees with ASSISIbf CASU (robot)

The Lily robot swarm

Parts of the subCUTron swarm in Venice

snapshot from the CoCoRo system

Lily robots in firefly mode

Jeff robots doing the BEECLUST with magnetic fields

e-puck Robots in REBODIMENT doing the BEECLUST in temperature fields

Binary decision wall in Flora Robotica

ASSISIbf CASUs (robots)

The HIVEOPOLIS

Rebodiment Hemisson prototype

Ant bots with fluorescent pheromone trail emulation

Ant bot

Connected e-puck robots evolve coordinated motion with a hormone inspüired control software

Simples robotic "organism" with e-pucks

I-Swarm robot (size comparison)

Binary decision wall in action with climbing plants

ASSISIbf arena with wax floor

A group of aMUSSEL robots before deployment

Two Jasmine robots interacting via IR light signaling

I-SWARM robot prototype and CAD model

Fish robots in ASSISIbf (by EPFL)

Jasmine robot swarm

CoCoRo robot swarm

Thymio-II robots emulating plant growth

aMussel robot gets docked by aPad robot

Flora Robotica robot

2d printing of a HIVEOPOLIS

Bee traffic management in HIVEOPOLIS

Fungus-grown HIVEOPOLIS

Technology and honeybees

Fungus material and honeybees

Augmented brood comb

Jasmine robot swarm

I-Swarm locomotion layer

Scout-bot

Multiple Scout bots in an robotic organism

K-bot

Robotic organism from Scout-bots and K-bots

K-bot organism

Robotic organism formed from all robot types in REPLICATOR

Active wheel robot in action

aMussel robots

a Fish robot and aMussel robots

ASSISIbf arena CASUs (robots)