Andres Upegui

Research Interests

Bio-inspired systems - Bio-inspired hardware - Evolvable hardware - Complex pervasive systems - Evolutionary computation – Adaptation - Autonomous robotics - Digital systems design - Processors architectures - Optimization architectures.

Short Biography

Andres Upegui is currently a senior researcher in the REDS institute at the HEIG-VD in Yverdon, Switzerland. He obtained a diploma on Electronic Engineering in 2000 from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Medellín, Colombia. He joined the UPB microelectronics research group from 2000 to 2001. From 2001 to 2002 he did the Graduate School on Computer Science at the EPFL, and then he joined the Logic Systems Laboratory (LSL) as PhD student. In 2006, he received the title of PhD. from the EPFL for his thesis entitled "Dynamically reconfigurable bio-inspired hardware".

Publications

1. Andres Upegui, "Dynamically Recongurable Hardware for Evolving Bio-Inspired Architectures" book chapter in "Intelligent Systems for Automated Learning and Adaptation: Emerging Trends and Applications", edited by Raymond Chiong, IGI Global publisher, Hershey - USA, pp. 1-22, 2010.
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2. Héctor F. Satizábal and Andres Upegui, "Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration of the Ubichip for Implementing Adaptive Size Incremental Topologies". In proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC09, Trondheim - Norway, pp. 134-141, 2009.
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3. Jaime Parra, Andres Upegui and Jaime Velasco. "Cytocomputation in a biologically inspired and dynamically reconfigurable hardware platform". In proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC09, Trondheim - Norway, pp. 150-157, 2009.
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4. Olivier Jorand, Andres Perez-Uribe, Henri Volken, Andres Upegui, Yann Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez, Francesco Mondada, and Philippe Retornaz. "Noise and bias for free : PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments". In proc. of Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems (AISB 2009) Convention, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 6-9, 2009.
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5. Andres Upegui, Yann Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez, Andres Perez-Uribe, Juan Manuel Moreno, Jordi Madrenas and Gilles Sassatelli, "The PERPLEXUS bio-inspired hardware platform: A flexible and modular approach", International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, IOS Press, Vol 12, Number 3, pp. 201-212, 2008.
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6. Andres Upegui, Andres Perez-Uribe, Yann Thoma, and Eduardo Sanchez. "Neural Development on the Ubichip by Means of Dynamic Routing Mechanisms". In G.S. Hornby et al. (Eds.): ICES 2008, LNCS 5216, pp. 392–401, 2008.
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7. Juan Camilo Peña, Jorge Peña, and Andres Upegui. "Evolutionary Graph Models with Dynamic Topologies on the Ubichip". In G.S. Hornby et al. (Eds.): ICES 2008, LNCS 5216, pp. 59–70, 2008.
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8. Olivier Brousse, Gilles Sassatelli, Thierry Gil, Michel Robert, Francois Grize, Eduardo Sanchez, Andres Upegui, and Yann Thoma. "The Perplexus Programming Framework: Combining Bio-inspiration and Agent-Oriented Programming for the Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems". In G.S. Hornby et al. (Eds.): ICES 2008, LNCS 5216, pp. 402–407, 2008.
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9. A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, A. Perez-Uribe, and E. Sanchez , ”Dynamic routing on the ubichip: toward synaptogenetic neural networks”, In D. Keymeulen, T. Arslan, M. Suess, A. Stoica, A. Erdogan, and D. Merodio editors, 3rd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2008), pages 228-235, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Jun. 2008. IEEE Computer Society.
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10. Y. Thoma and A. Upegui, ”UbiManager: a software tool for managing ubichips”, In D. Keymeulen, T. Arslan, M. Suess, A. Stoica, A. Erdogan, and D. Merodio editors, 3rd NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2008), pages 213-219, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Jun. 2008. IEEE Computer Society.
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11. Andres Upegui and Eduardo Sanchez, ”Evolvable FPGAs”, book chapter in ”Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation”, edited by Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon, pages 725-752 Morgan Kaufmann, USA, 2008.
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12. A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, J. M. Moreno, and J. Madrenas. ”The perplexus bio-inspired reconfigurable circuit”. In T. Arslan, A. Stoica, M. Suess, D. Keymeulen, T. Higuchi, R. Zebulum, and A. T. Erdogan, editors, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), pages 600-605, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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13. E. Sanchez, A. Perez-Uribe, A. Upegui, Y. Thoma, J. M. Moreno, A. Villa, H. Volken, Napieralski, G. Sassatelli, E. Lavarec, ”PERPLEXUS: Pervasive Computing Framework for Modeling Complex Virtually-Unbounded Systems,” In T. Arslan, A. Stoica, M. Suess, D. Keymeulen, T. Higuchi, R. Zebulum, and A. T. Erdogan, editors, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), pages 587-591, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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14. J. Peña, A. Upegui, ”A Population-Oriented Architecture for Particle Swarms”, In T. Arslan, A. Stoica, M. Suess, D. Keymeulen, T. Higuchi, R. Zebulum, and A. T. Erdogan, editors, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), pages 563-570, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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15. Yann Thoma, Andres Upegui, Andres Perez-Uribe, and Eduardo Sanchez, "Self-Replication Mechanism by Means of Self-Reconfiguration" Workshop proceedings at the 20th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 07). Zurich, Switzerland, March 2007.
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16. Andres Upegui, "Dynamically Reconfigurable Bio-inspired Hardware", PhD Thesis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2006.
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17. Arnaud Lagger, Andres Upegui, and Eduardo Sanchez, "Self-Reconfigurable Pervasive Platform for Cryptographic Aplication", in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL-06), Madrid - Spain, 2006.
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18. Rico Moeckel, Cyril Jaquier, Kevin Drapel, Elmar Dittrich, Andres Upegui, and Auke Jan Ijspeert. "Exploring adaptive locomotion with YaMoR, a novel autonomous modular robot with Bluetooth interface", Industrial Robot, vol 44, n. 4, pages 285-290, 2006.
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19. Andres Upegui and Eduardo Sanchez, "Evolving Hardware with Self-Reconfigurable Connectivity in Xilinx FPGAs", in Proceedings of the 1st NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems(AHS-2006), Istanbul - Turkey, pages 153-160, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
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20. Jorge Peña, Andres Upegui, and Eduardo Sanchez, "Particle Swarm Optimization with Discrete Recombination: An Online Optimizer for Evolvable Hardware", in Proceedings of the 1st NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems(AHS-2006), Istanbul - Turkey, pages 163-170, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
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21. Andres Upegui and Eduardo Sanchez, "On-chip and On-line Self-Reconfigurable Adaptable Platform: the Non-Uniform Cellular Automata Case", in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS06), Rhodes - Greece, page 206, IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
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22. Andrés Upegui, Carlos Andrés Peña-Reyes, and Eduardo Sanchez. "On-line Topology Exploration of Spiking Neural Networks on FPGAs". Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol 29 (2005), p 211-223.
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23. Andres Upegui and Eduardo Sanchez, "Evolving Hardware by Dynamically Reconfiguring Xilinx FPGAs", in International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES 05), September 2005.
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24. Rico Moeckel, Cyril Jaquier, Kévin Drapel, Elmar Dittrich, Andres Upegui, Auke Ijspeert, "YaMoR and Bluemove - an autonomous modular robot with Bluetooth interface for exploring adaptive locomotion" in 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 05), September 2005.
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25. Grégory Mermoud, Andres Upegui, Carlos-Andres Peña, and Eduardo Sanchez "A Dynamically-Reconfigurable FPGA Platform for Evolving Fuzzy Systems" International Work-conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks IWANN2005, June 2005.
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26. Andres Upegui, Rico Moeckel, Elmar Dittrich, Auke Ijspeert, Eduardo Sanchez "An FPGA Dynamically Reconfigurable Framework for Modular Robotics". Workshop on Dynamical Reconfigurable Systems at the18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 05). Innsbruck, Austria, March 2005.
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27. Andrés Upegui, Carlos Andrés Peña-Reyes, and Eduardo Sanchez. "A hardware implementation of a network of functional spiking neurons with hebbian learning". BioAdit - International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology. Lausanne, Switzerland. January 2004.
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28. A. Upegui, C. A. Pena-Reyes, E. Sanchez. A Functional Spiking Neuron Hardware Oriented Model. In J. Mira, J. R. Alvarez (eds.), Computational Methods in Neural Modeling, Volume 2686 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 136-143, Springer, Berlin, 2003.
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29. Andrés Upegui, Carlos Andrés Peña-Reyes, and Eduardo Sanchez. "A methodology for evolving spiking neural-network topologies on line using partial dynamic reconfiguration". proceedings of II ICCI - International Conference on Computational Inteligence. Medellin, Colombia. November 2003.
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30. Andres Upegui, Ivan Herrera, Hernan Sánchez. "Integracion del Multiprocesador MADE"". Proceedings of the VII Workshop Iberchip. Montevideo - Uruguay. March 2001.
31. Ivan Herrera, Hernan Sánchez, Andres Upegui, and Lucas Restrepo. "Modelo de simulación y Prueba para el Multiprocesador MADE". Proceedings of the VI Workshop Iberchip. Sao Paulo - Brasil. 2000.
32. Ivan Herrera, Hernan Sánchez, Andres Upegui, and Lucas Restrepo. "MADE Multiprocessor". Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium of electronic and telecommunication research. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogota - Colombia. November 1999.