Julien Diperi

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université

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Total Citations

139

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About

Julien Diperi is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the exciting intersection of bio-inspired design and agile aerial robotics. His most impactful contributions include the development of **X-Morf**, a groundbreaking crash-separable quadrotor that can actively morph its X-geometry mid-flight by changing the angle between its two arms. This 380-gram robot, cited 60 times, represents a significant advance in resilient, shape-shifting drone design. Diperi has also made notable contributions to insect-inspired navigation, developing a novel optical compass sensor that uses linear polarization of ultraviolet skylight—mimicking the navigational strategies of ants and insects—to enable autonomous outdoor navigation without relying on error-prone magnetometers. His work on a local positioning system using flickering infrared LEDs further demonstrates his expertise in bio-inspired sensing. With multiple highly-cited papers from 2017, Diperi’s research is pioneering new paradigms for how robots perceive their environment and adapt their physical structure in flight, drawing direct inspiration from the natural world to solve fundamental challenges in robotics.