Payam Zahadat

University Assistant

Self-Description:

Payam Zahadat received her Master and PhD degrees in Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science and Engineering) from Shiraz University, Iran in 2005 and 2011 respectively. For a duration of one year (2009-2010) during her PhD, she worked as a research assistant at the Modular Robotics Lab, the Maersk McKinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark. She had a postdoc position at the Artificial Life Lab of the Department of Zoology, University of Graz since 2011, and for half a year (2018-2019) at the IT University of Copenhagen. Currently she is a university assistant (officially translated and loosely equivalent to assistant professor) in the University of Graz. During the last years, she has worked in the EU-funded projects florarobotica, ASSISIbf, CoCoRo, SYMBRION and REPLICATOR. Her research interests include both theoretical studies and applications in the field of swarm/multi-modular robotics and systems, self-organization, evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary robotics, and gene regulatory networks.

E-Mail: payam.zahadat@uni-graz.at
Phone: +43 316 380 3982

Projects:

REPLICATOR

CoCoRo

SYMBRION

ASSISIbf

florarobotica

Publications:

2020

Joshua Cherian Varughese, Hannes Hornischer, Payam Zahadat, Ronald Thenius, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

A swarm design paradigm unifying swarm behaviors using minimalistic communication.

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

(2020)

, 16(2)

Payam Zahadat, Ada Diaconescu:

Reactive or Stable: A Plant-inspired Approach for Organisation Morphogenesis.

ALIFE 2020

(2020)

2019

Mohammad Divband Soorati, Payam Zahadat, Javad Ghofrani, Heiko Hamann:

Adaptive path formation in self-assembling robot swarms by tree-like vascular morphogenesis.

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

(2019)

, 299-311

Payam Zahadat:

Self-adaptation and self-healing behaviors via a dynamic distribution process.

SASO 2019 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

(2019)

, best poster

Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann:

Photomorphogenesis for Robot Self-assembly: Adaptivity, Collective Decision-making, and Self-repair.

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

(2019)

Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Julian Petzold, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann:

Robotic Sensing and Stimuli Provision for Guided Plant Growth.

J. Vis. Exp.

149

(2019)

, e59835

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Sebastian von Mammen, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mostafa Wahby, Payam Zahadat, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Rafał Krela, Wojciech Kwiatkowski, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Kasper Stoy, Heiko Hamann:

Constructing Living Buildings: A Review of Relevant Technologies for a Novel Application of Biohybrid Robotics.

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

(2019)

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler:

Toward a Theory of Collective Resource Distribution: A Study of a Dynamic Morphogenesis Controller.

Swarm Intelligence

(2019)

2018

Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Sebastian Risi, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl, Heiko Hamann:

A Robot to Shape your Natural Plant: The Machine Learning Approach to Model and Control Bio-Hybrid Systems.

GECCO

(accepted)

(2018)

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Payam Zahadat, John Harding, et al.:

Using Interactive Evolution to Design Behaviors for Non-deterministic Self-organized Construction.

SimAUD

(accepted)

(2018)

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Morphogenesis as a Collective Decision of Agents Competing for Limited Resource: a Plants Approach.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - ANTS 2018: Swarm Intelligence

11172

(2018)

, 84-96

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Locomotion as a Result of Displacement of Resources.

ALIFE 2018

(2018)

, 232-233

Mohammad Divband Soorati, Javad Ghofrani, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann:

Robust and Adaptive Robot Self-Assembly Based on Vascular Morphogenesis.

IROS

(2018)

, 4282-4287

Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Ewald Neufeld, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann:

Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants:a bio-hybrid approach.

Royal Society Open Science,

5(10)

(2018)

2017

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Generative Model For Developing Morphology of Artificial Structures.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany

(2017)

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Design choices for adapting bio-hybrid systems with evolutionary computation.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany

(2017)

Pedro Mariano, Ziad Salem, Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Luís Correia, Thomas Schmickl:

Animal-guided evolutionary computation in honeybees and robots.

14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2017). Lyon, France

(2017)

, 8

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Development of Morphology Based on Resource Distribution: Finding the Shortest Path in a Maze by Vascular Morphogenesis Controller.

14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2017). Lyon, France

(2017)

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-defined Steering of Growth and Motion.

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

12(3)

(2017)

Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: Guiding Morphology by Competition for Resource Distribution.

ECAL, Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop

(2017)

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Vascular Morphogenesis Controller to Demonstrate Locomotion.

Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing (AISP), Shiraz (in press)

(2017)

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

Towards Swarm Level Optimisation: The Role of Different Movement Patterns in Swarm Systems.

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

(2017)

Heiko Hamman, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Igor Kuksin, Frank Veenstra, Mostafa Wahby, Stig Anton Nielsen, Sebastian Risi, Tomasz Skrzypczak, Payam Zahadat, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek, Kasper Stoy, Thomas Schmickl, Serge Kernbach, Phil Ayres:

Flora robotica - An Architectural System Combining Living Natural and Distributed Robots.

arXiv.org

(2017)

2016

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Division of Labor in a Swarm of Autonomous Underwater Robots by Improved Partitioning Social Inhibition.

Adaptive Behavior

24(2)

(2016)

, 87-101

Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Thomas Schmickl:

Vascular Morphogenesis Controller: A Distributed Controller for Growing Artificial Structures.

SASO 2016

(2016)

Mostafa Wahby, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann:

An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap.

SASO 2016 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

(2016)

, 10

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mostafa Wahby, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Payam Zahadat, Phil Ayres, Kasper Støy, Heiko Hamann:

Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility based on Braided Structures.

SOCO 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction

(2016)

, 6

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Kunzfeld, Thomas Schmickl:

Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots: How Robust the BEECLUST Algorithm Performs in Various Conditions.

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games

(2016)

2015

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Controllers for Programmable Robots to Influence Non-Programmable Lifeforms: A Casy Study.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

9028

(2015)

Rob Mills, Payam Zahadat, Fernando Silva, Damjan Mlikic, Pedro Mariano, Thomas Schmickl, Luís Correia:

Coordination of collective behaviours in spatially separated agents.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2015

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Diverse Collective Behaviors Independent of Swarm Density.

Workshop Evolving Collective Behaviors in Robotics, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Collective Behaviors With Diverse But Predictable Sensor States.

13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, UK, 2015

(2015)

Daniela Kengyel, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Gerald Radspieler, Franz Wotawa, Thomas Schmickl:

Potential of Heterogeneity in Collective Behaviors: A Case Study on Heterogeneous Swarms.

Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2015

(2015)

Heiko Hamann, Mostafa Wahby, Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi, Andres Faina, Frank Veenstra, Serge Kernbach, Igor Kuksin, Olga Kernbach, Phil Ayres, Przemyslaw Wojtaszek:

flora robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids.

Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life IEEE ALIFE 2015

(2015)

Payam Zahadat, Sibylle Hahshold, Ronald Thenius, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

From Honeybees to Robots and Back: Division of Labour based on Partitioning Social Inhibition.

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

10(6)

(2015)

Daniela Kengyel, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Kunzfeld, Thomas Schmickl:

Collective Decision Making in a Swarm of Robots: How Robust the BEECLUST Algorithm Performs in Various Conditions.

9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT)

(2015)

Michael Bodi, Martina Szopek, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Evolving Mixed Societies: A one-dimensional modelling approach.

BICT ’15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Bioinspired Information and Communicati

(2015)

2014

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Generation of Diversity in a Reaction-Diffusion Based Controller.

Artificial Life

20:3

(2014)

, 319–342

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

Wolfpack-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm and a Reaction-Diffusion-based Controller are used for Pattern Formation.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, Canada

(2014)

, 241-248

Payam Zahadat, Michael Bodi, Ziad Salem, Frank Bonnet, Marcelo Elias de Oliveira, Francesco Mondada, Karlo Griparic, Tomislav Haus, Stjepan Bogdan, Rob Mills, Pedro Mariano, Luís Correia, Olga Kernbach, Serge Kernbach, Thomas Schmickl:

Social adaptation of robots for modulating self-organization in animal societies.

2nd FoCAS Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Systems

(2014)

2013

Jürgen Stradner, Ronald Thenius, Payam Zahadat, Heiko Hamann, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Algorithmic Requirements for Swarm Intelligence in Differently Coupled Collective Systems.

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

(2013)

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Evolution of Spatial Pattern Formation by Autonomous Bio-Inspired Cellular Controllers.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 830-837

Payam Zahadat, Karl Crailsheim, Thomas Schmickl:

Social Inhibition Manages Division of Labour in Artificial Swarm Systems.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 609-616

Ronald Thenius, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl:

EMANN - a model of emotions in an artificial neural network.

Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

(2013)

, 830-837

2012

Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

Evolving Reactive Controller for a Modular Robot: Benefits of the Property of State-Switching in Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks.

in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

7426

(2012)

, 209-218

Payam Zahadat, Kasper Stoy:

An Alternative Representation of Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks Facilitating Analysis and Interpretation.

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

(2012)

, 285-316

Jürgen Stradner, Heiko Hamann, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim:

On-line, On-board Evolution of Reaction-Diffusion Control for Self-Adaptation.

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

(2012)

, 597–598

2011

Payam Zahadat:

Evolution and Development in Gene Regulatory Network Systems.

Shiraz University, Iran

PhD Thesis,

(2011)

2010

Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Serajeddin Katebi, Kasper Stoy:

Sensor-coupled fractal gene regulatory networks for locomotion control of a modular snake robot.

in 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

(2010)

Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Serajeddin Katebi, Kasper Stoy:

Fractal gene regulatory networks for robust locomotion control of modular robots.

in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag

6226

(2010)

, 544-554

2008

Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Tartarus and fractal gene regulatory networks with input.

Advances in Complex Systems Journal (ACS)

(2008)

, 803-829

2007

Malihe Sabeti, Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Accuracy based classifier systems using evolutionary neural networks representation.

in 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC)

(2007)

2005

Malihe Sabeti, Payam Zahadat, Serajeddin Katebi:

Learning classifier systems for mobile robot control.

in 10th Annual Conference of Computer Society of Iran

(2005)

Payam Zahadat:

Design and Implementation of Multi Agent Systems based on Reinforcement Learning.

Shiraz University, Iran

MSc Thesis

(2005)

2004

Payam Zahadat, Malihe Sabeti, Serajeddin Katebi:

Incremental reinforcement learning in multiagent systems.

In Proc. 6th Conference on Intelligent Systems (CIS)

(2004)

Artificial Life Laboratory, Graz, Austria

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