Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Research Publications

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory contributes to the development of the global robotics community by publishing its research in international conferences and journals. The publications created by the researchers and postgraduates within BRL are peer reviewed and aim to further the advanced field of robotics and promote inter-disciplinary colloboration. Prior to December 2005 works were published under the umbrella of IAS. For related works published by individual and asssociate members of BRL visit the personal links provided on our people database.

2012

Atkins RM, Raabe D, Tarassoli P, Jackson M, Mitchell S, Dogramadzi S, (2012) A framework for robotic fracture surgery. 13th EFORT Congress, 23 - 25 May, Berlin/Germany (in press)

Ieropoulos, Ioannis, John Greenman and Chris Melhuish, (2012) Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; energy fuel for the future. Phys. Chem. Chem.Phys., DOI: 10.1039/C1CP23213D

Khan, S.G., Herrmann, G., Lewis, F.L., Pipe, T. and Melhuish, C.,(2012) Reinforcement Learning Based Optimal Adaptive Control: An Overview and Implementation Examples, Elsevier Journal of Annual Reviews in Control. (in press).

Raabe D, Dogramadzi S and Atkins R, 14 - 18 May (2012) Semi-automatic percutaneous reduction of intra-articular joint fractures – an initial analysis. ICRA, St.Paul/USA (accepted)

Raabe D, Harrison A, Ireland A, Alemzadeh K, Sandy J, Dogramadzi S, Melhuish C and Burgess S, (2012) Improved single- and multi-contact life-time testing of dental restorative materials using key characteristics of the human masticatory system and a force/position-controlled robotic dental wear simulator. Bioinspir. Biomim. 7. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190/7/1/016002

2011

Anderson, I. A. Ieropoulos, I. A. McKay, T. O'Brien, B. Melhuish, C. (2011). Power for Robotic Artificial Muscles. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 16(1): 107-111. DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2090894

Araromi, O.A., Conn, A.T., Ling, C.S., Rossiter, J.M., Vaidyanathan, R. & Burgess, S.C. (2011) Spray Deposited Multilayered Dielectric Elastomer Actuators, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 167, (pp. 459-467), 2011. ISSN: 0924-4247 DOI:10.1016/j.sna.2011.03.004

Bowers, AE, Rossiter, JM, Walters, P & Ieropoulos, I. (2011) Dielectric elastomer pump for artificial organisms, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices 2011, Proceedings of SPIE, 7976-80, 2011.

Bremner, P., Pipe, A.G., Fraser, M., Subramanian, S., Melhuish, C. (2011) The Effects of Robot-Performed Co-Verbal Gesture on Listener Behaviour . In proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots.

Bremner, P., Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Pipe, A. G., Liu, Y. (2011), Evolving Cell Array Configurations Using CGP. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming, p73-84.

Bremner, P., Samie, M., Pipe, A. G., Walker, J. A., Tyrrell, A. M. (2011) Multi-Objective Optimisation of Cell-Array Circuit Evolution. In Proceedings of 11^th. Congress on Evolutionary Computation, p440 - 446. DOI:10.1109/CEC.2011.5949651

Broun, A. and Studley, M. (2011)"Low Cost Automatic Object Segmentation by Detecting a Signature Motion Within an Optical Flow Signal", in Proc. 2011 Joint IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics (ICIT) & Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), Auburn, Alabama.

Buckley, Martin, Ravi Vaidyanathan and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas. (2011) Sensor Suites For Assistive Arm Prosthetics , IEEE International Conference on Computer-Based Medical Systems(CBMS), pp 112-117, Bristol, UK, June 2011

Burgess S.C., Wang J., Vaidyanathan R., (2011) A Comparison of the Efficiency of the Bicycle with Analogous Systems in Nature, International Journal of Design and Nature, 6, 2, pp 16-31, 2011

Burton T.M.W., Vaidyanathan R., Burgess S. C., Turton A. J., Melhuish C., (2011) Development of a Parametric Kinematic Model of the Human Hand and a Novel Robotic Exoskeleton IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics , 6 pp, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2011

Carberry J., Hinchley G., Talyor E., Buckerfield J. , Burton T., Madgwick S., Vaidyanathan R. (2011) Parametric Design of a Passively Compliant Robotic Ankle Brace, IEEE International Conference on Computer-Based Medical Systems(CBMS), pp 123-128, Bristol, UK, June 2011

Conn, A.T. and Rossiter, J. (2011) Smart Radially Folding Structures.accepted for publication in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, , DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2153867.

Conn, A.T., Ling, C.S. and Burgess, S.C. (2011) Biomimetic analysis of insect wing kinematics for flapping MAVs. International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 3, pp. 1-11.

Conn, AT & Rossiter, JM. (2011) Antagonistic dielectric elastomer actuator for biologically inspired robotics, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2011, Proceedings of SPIE, 7976-70, 2011.

Erbas, M.D., Winfield, A.F.T. and Bull, L. (2011). Towards Imitation-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems. in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. pages: 6-13,Paris, France.

Erbas, M. D. and Winfield, A. F. T. (2011). On the Emergence of Structure in Behaviours Evolved through Embodied Imitation in a Group of Robots. In Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2011). T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo and R. Doursat, (eds.). Pages: 219-226. MIT Press.

Etoundi, A., Burgess S.C., Vaidyanathan R., (2011) A bio-inspired condylar hinge joint for mobile robots, accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 6 pp , San Francisco, CA, USA, Sept 2011

Fox, C.W., M.H.Evans, N.F.Lepora, M.J.Pearson, A. Ham, T.J.Prescott (2011) CrunchBot: a mobile whiskered robot platform accepted for publication in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 11) Sheffield, September 2011.

Gajda, Iwona, Jiseon You, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Ioannis Ieropoulos.(2011).Comparative study of multiple membranes for MFCs.Accepted for publication in Proceedings of Electrochem Conference in Bath 2011.

Greenman, J. and Ieropoulos, I. (2011). Overview of Microbial Fuel Cells for Practical Power Production. Comm. Appl. Biol. Sci, Ghent University, *76*(2):39-42.

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Melhuish, C. (2011). Chapter 3: Microbial Fuel Cells — Scalability and their use in Robotics pp 239-285 in Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry No. 52: Applications of Electrochemistry and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine I. Ed. Eliaz, N. Springer, ISSN: 0076-9924.

Greenman, J., Ledezma, P., Pereira-Medrano, A.G., Wright, P.C. and Ieropoulos, I.,(2011). The importance of specific growth rate of biofilms for electricity production in microbial fuel cell systems. Proceedings of the IWA Biofilm conference, Shanghai, China. IWA Publishing, London, U.K.

Griffiths, G. and Studley, M. (2011) Towards Electroadhesion for Climbing Robots, to appear in proc. CLAWAR 2011, 11th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Paris, Sep. 2011 (in press).

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Melhuish, C. (2011). Urine as a suitable fuel for Microbial Fuel Cells. Accepted for the European Fuel Cell Conference, 14-16 December 2011, Rome, Italy.

Jalani, J, Herrmann, G & Melhuish, CR.(2011) Robust Active Compliance Control for Practical Grasping of a Cylindrical Object via a Multifingered Robot Hand, 5th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Qingdao, (pp. -), 2011. http://www.cis-ram.org/2011/index.html

Jalani, J, Khan, S. G, Herrmann, G & Melhuish, CR.(2011) A Novel Approach of Robust Active Compliance for Robot Fingers,3^rd. International Conference on Advanced Humanoid Robotics Research (ICAHRR), FIRA 2011 RoboWorld Cup & Congress, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Next Wave in Robotics, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, Volume 212, 50-57, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23147-6_7.

Karnik, A, Henderson, A, Dean, A, Pang, H, Campbell, T, Sakurai, S, Herrmann, G, Izadi, S, Kitamura, Y & Subramanian, S. (2011)VORTEX: Design and Implementation of an Interactive Volumetric Display, 29^th.International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM - Vancouver, BC, Canada, CHI '11 EA, (pp. -), 2011. DOI:10.1145/1979742.1979870

Khan, S. G, Herrmann, G, Lewis, F.L, Melhuish, CR & Pipe, AG. (2011)A novel Q-Learning Based Cartesian Model Reference Compliance Controller Implementation for a Humanoid Robotic Arm, accepted for publication in 5^th.IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Qingdao, (pp. -), 2011. http://www.cis-ram.org/2011/index.html

Khan, S. G, Herrmann, G, Lewis, F.L, Pipe, AG & Melhuish, CR.(2011) A Novel Q-Learning Based Adaptive Optimal Controller Implementation for a Humanoid Robotic Arm, Proceedings 18^th.IFAC World Congress, Milan, (Vol 18, Part 1, pp 13528-33), 2011.

Khan, S. G, Jalani, J, Herrmann, G, Pipe, AG & Melhuish, CR. (2011)Task Space Integral Sliding Mode Controller Implementation for 4DOF of a Humanoid BERT2 arm with Posture Control, TAROS 2011, UK Robotics Conference, Sheffield, , 2011.www.taros.org.uk, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Book series), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 6856, pp 299-310,Sheffield, UK.

Khan, S. G, Lenz, A, Herrmann, G, Pipe, AG & Melhuish, CR.(2011) Toward Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliant Control, An Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication, FIRA2011 RoboWorld Cup & Congress, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, (pp. -), 2011. www.fira.tw Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Khan S.G, Lenz, A., Herrmann, G., Pipe, T. and Melhuish, C., (2011) Toward Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliant Control, An Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication 3rd International Conference on Advanced Humanoid Robotics Research (ICAHRR), FIRA World Congress 2011 (Taiwan). Next Wave in Robotics : Communications in Computer and Information Science , Springer, 2011, Volume 212, 17-24.

Krause, Jens, Alan F.T. Winfield, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, (2011) Interactive robots in experimental biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26 (7), 369-375, .

Lallée,Stephane, Ugo Pattacini, Jean David Boucher, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish, Lorenzo Natale, Sergey Skachek, Katharina Hamann, Jasmin Steinwender, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Giorgio Metta, Rachid Alami, Matthieu Warnier, Julien Guitton, Felix Warneken, Peter Ford Dominey, 2011Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human-Robot Interaction System: II. Perception, Execution and Imitation of Goal Directed Actions.IEEE IROS 2011

Ledezma, P., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J.(2011). MFC-cascade systems for maximum effluent utilisation/degradation. 3^rd. MFC Conference, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 5-9 June 2011. (Accepted)

Lepora, N.F., C.W.Fox, M.H.Evans, B.Mitchinson, A.Motiwala, J.C.Sullivan, M.J.Pearson, J.Welsby, A.G.Pipe, K.Gurney T.J.Prescott (2011) A general classifier of whisker data using stationary naive Bayes: application to BIOTACT robots accepted for publication in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 11) Sheffield, September 2011

Liu, Y., Tempesti, G., Walker, J.A., Timmis, J., Tyrrell, A. M., Bremner, P. (2011), Self-scaling Instruction Generator Using Cartesian Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming, p298-309.

Lock R.J, Peiris P., Bates S., Burgess S.C., Vaidyanathan R., (2011) Quantification of the benefits of a compliant foil for underwater flapping wing propulsion, accepted for publication, IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 6pp, Budapest, Hungary, July 2011

Madgwick S.O.H, Vaidyanathan R., Harrison A., (2011) An efficient orientation estimation algorithm for inertial and inertial/magnetic sensor arrays IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 6pp, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2011

Mamun K.A., Vaidyanathan R., Lutman M.E., Stein J., Liu X., Aziz T., Wang S., (2011) Decoding of Voluntary Movement in Human Subthalamic Local Field Potentials, IEEE/EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 6pp, Cancun, Mexico, April 2011 (In press)

Mitchinson, Ben, Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Tony J. Prescott (2011) Biomimetic robots as scientific models: A view from the whisker tip, in Neuromorphic and Brain-based Robots: Trends and Perspectives, Cambridge University press, ISBN 978-0-521-76878-8, pp: 23-57.

Na, J, Zheng, D, Ren, X M, Herrmann, G & Longo, S. (2011)Adaptive Control of Robotic Servo System with Friction Compensation, accepted for publication in 5^th.IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Qingdao, (pp. -), 2011. http://www.cis-ram.org/2011/index.html

O'Dowd, P., Winfield, A.F.T., & Studley M. (2011) The Distributed Co-Evolution of an Embodied Simulator and Controller for Swarm Robot Behaviours, to appear in proc. of IROS 2011, the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 25-30, 2011. (in press)

Pearson, M.J., B. Mitchinson, A.G. Pipe and T.J. Prescott, (2011) Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.366 (1581), pp: 3085-3096.

Pipe, A.G., R. Vaidyanathan, C. Melhuish, et al. (2011) Cooperation between Humans and Humanoid Assistive Robots, Chapter 15 in Biomimetics: Nature-Based Innovation, eds Y. Bar-Cohen, CRC Press ISBN-10: 1439834768, Chapt 16, pp 477-494,2011

Raabe D, A Harrison, A Ireland, K Alemzadeh, J Sandy, S Dogramadzi, C Melhuish and S Burgess, (2011) Improved single and multi-contact life-time testing of dental restorative materials using key characteristics of the human masticatory system and a force/position controlled robotic dental wear simulator. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics V7, No. 1 DOI:10.1088.1748-3182/7/1/016002

Raabe D, Harrison A, Ireland A, Alemzadeh K, and Sandy J,(2011) Capturing motions and forces of the human masticatory system to replicate chewing and to perform dental wear experiments. In: CBMS 2011. 24th Int. Symposium on Comp-Based Medical Systems, June 27-30 2011, pages 1-6, Bristol, UK (available on IEEE Xplore)

Roke, C., Melhuish, C., Pipe, T., Drury, D., & Chorley, C. (2011). Deformation-Based Tactile Feedback Using a Biologically-Inspired Sensor and a Modified Display. Accepted for publication in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS '11) Sheffield, September 2011

Rooney, T., M.J. Pearson, J. Welsby, I.Horsfield, R.Sewell, S. Dogramadzi, (2011) Object Localisation Using Active Whiskers on Underwater Autonomous Walking Robots/ Climbing and Walking Robots conference (CLAWAR) Paris, July 2011

Rossiter, JM & Mukai, T. (2011) Electrostatic and Thermal Segmentation of Multi-Segment IPMC Sensor-Actuators, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2011, Proceedings of SPIE, 7976-47, 2011.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Pipe, T. (2011) UNITRONICS: A novel bio-inspired fault tolerant cellular system. Proceedings of IEEE conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), NASA/ESA 6-9 June 2011 pp. 58 - 65 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-0597-7 ,Print ISBN: 978-1-4577-0598-4

Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Pipe, T., Bremner, P. (2011) An innovative bioinspired fault tolerant unitronics architecture. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems 8-12th August 2011, Paris

Studley, M. Chambers, S, Rettie, R. and Burchell, K.(2011) Gathering and Presenting Social Feedback to Change Domestic Electricity Consumption to appear in proc. PINC: Persuasion, Influence, Nudge & Coercion through mobile devices , ACM SIG CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada. (in press).

Sullivan, J.C.; Mitchinson, B.; Pearson, M.; Evans, M.; Lepora, N.; Fox, C.; Melhuish, C.; Prescott, T.; (2011) , Tactile Discrimination using Active Whisker Sensors, Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2148114

Takashima, K, Noritsugu, T, Rossiter, JM, Guo, S & Mukai, T. (2011) Development of curved type pneumatic artificial rubber muscle using shape-memory polymer, JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics(ROBOMEC2011), (pp. 2A2-J01(1)-2A2-J01(4)), 2011.

Tzemanaki, A., Raabe, D., Dogramadzi, S.,(2011) "Development of a novel robotic system for hand rehabilitation," 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2011, pp.1-6, 27-30 June 2011, DOI:10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999150.

van der Linden, Janet, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi, Adam Spiers, David McGoran, Rafael Cronin, Paul O'Dowd,(2011) Haptic Reassurance in the Pitch Black for an Immersive Theatre Experience, Proceedings 13^th. ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), pp 143-152.

Walters, Peter, Ioannis Ieropoulos and David McGoran (2011). Digital fabrication of a novel bio-actuator for bio-robotic art and design.Accepted for publication in NIP & Digital Fabrication 2011.

Winfield, J. Ieropoulos, I.A. Greenman, J. Dennis, J. (2011). Investigating the effects of fluidic connection between microbial fuel cells. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 34: 477-484.

Winfield, J. Ieropoulos, I.A. Greenman, J. Dennis, J. (2011). The overshoot phenomenon as a function of internal resistance in microbial fuel cells. Bioelectrochemistry, 81: 22-27

Winfield, J., Greenman, J. and Ieropoulos, I.(2011). MFC performance under adverse acidic flocculating conditions using ferric chloride. accepted for 3^rd.MFC Conference, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 5-9 June 2011.

Woodman, R., Winfield, A., Harper, C., Fraser, M. (2011), Online Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Robots.accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 12^th. Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6856, Sheffield, UK.

2010

Anderson, I., Ieropoulos, I., McKay, T., O'Brien, B. and Melhuish, C. (2010). A Hybrid Microbial Dielectric Elastomer Generator for Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of the SPIE, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XII, March 7-11, San Diego, CA. Paper number: 7642-67.

Anderson, S.R., M.J. Pearson, A.G.Pipe, T.J.Prescott, P.Dean and J.Porrill (2010) Adaptive cancellation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot IEEE Trans. Robotics 26(6) 2010, 1065-1076, DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2069990

Bazo D., Vaidyanathan R., Lenz A., Melhuish C., (2010), Design and Testing of Hybrid Expressive Face for the BERT2 Humanoid Robot, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),pp 5317-5322, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2010

Bremner, P., Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Pipe, A. G., Walker, J. A., Tyrrell, A. M. (2010), Evolving Digital Circuits Using Complex Building Blocks. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems p37-38.

Burton T., Vaidyanathan R., Turton A., Melhuish C., 2010 A Kinematic Model of Hand Grasping for Robotic Rehabilitation, 11th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS'2010) Conference, Plymouth, UK, pp 34-40, Aug 2010

Conn, A.T., Rossiter, J.M.,(2010), Radially expanding mechanism for dielectric elastomers Proceedings of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD XII), SPIE Vol. 7642.

Craig R., Vaidyanathan R., James C.J., Meluish C., (2010) "Assessment of Human Response to Robot Facial Expressions through Visually Evoked Potentials",IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp 647-652, Nashville, TN, Dec 2010

Evins R., Pointer P., Vaidyanathan R., (2010), Configuration of a Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimisation of Solar Gain to Buildings, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCo), pp 1327-1328, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 2010

Gupta L., Kota S., Murali S., Molfese D., Vaidyanathan R., (2010) "A Feature Ranking Strategy to Facilitate Multivariate Signal Classification", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics C (SMC-C), 40, 1, pp 98-108, 2010

Herrmann, G & Melhuish, CR.,2010,'Towards Safety in Human Robot Interaction', International Journal of Social Robotics, 2, 3, (pp. 217-219), 2010. ISSN: 1875-4791 10.1007/s12369-010-0061-z

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Melhuish, C. (2010) Improved Energy Output Levels from Small Scale Microbial Fuel Cells. Bioelectrochemistry 78:44-50.

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C and Horsfield, I. (2010), EcoBot-III: a robot with guts.Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, (Artificial Life XII), 19-23 Aug 2010, Odense, Denmark. E-Book (Open Access), ISBN-10:0-262-29075-8, pp. 733-740. PDF

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Sauer, M. (2010). Microbial Fuel Cells and Algae. ECS Transactions 28(9):23-30

Ieropoulos, I., Winfield, J., Greenman, J. (2010) Effects of flow-rate, inoculum and time on the internal resistance of microbial fuel cells. Bioresource Technology. 101, 3520-3525.

Ieropoulos, I., Winfield, J., Greenman, J. and Melhuish, C. (2010). Small Scale Microbial Fuel Cells and Different Ways of Reporting Output. ECS Transactions 28(9):1-9

Ishak, MK, Herrmann, G & Melhuish, CR., 2010, 'The Development of a Generic Embedded Networked Real Time Control System for Bristol's Robot Platform', 11th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, (pp. 91-96), 2010. http://www.taros.org.uk/

Jalani, J, Herrmann, G & Melhuish, CR., 2010, 'Concept for Robust Compliance Control of Robot Fingers', 11th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, (pp. 97-102), 2010. http://www.taros.org.uk/

Khan, S.G. Herrmann, G., Pipe, A and Melhuish, C. (2010), Safe Adaptive Compliance Control of a Humanoid Robotic Arm with Anti-Windup Compensation and Posture Control, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer. 2, 3, (pp. 305-319), ISSN: 1875-4791, DOI:10.1007/s12369-010-0058-7

Khan, S.G, Herrmann, G. Pipe, T. and Melhuish, C., (2010), Adaptive Multi-dimensional Compliance Control of a Humanoid Robotic Arm with Anti-Windup Compensation. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), pp 2218-2223 abstract

Lallée, Stéphane, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish, Lorenzo Natale, Sergey Skachek, Tijn van der Zant, Felix Warneken, Peter Ford Dominey, (2010), Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human-Robot Interaction System: I. Perception, in 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010) pp. 4444-44451,2010

Ledezma, Pablo, Ioannis Ieropoulos and John Greenman, (2010), Comparative analysis of different polymer materials for the construction of Microbial Fuel Cell stacks, Journal of Biotechnology, Volume 150, Supplement 1, November 2010, Page 143, ISSN 0168-1656, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.08.373 .

Lenz, A., S. Skachek, K. Hamann, J. Steinwender, A. G. Pipe, and C. Melhuish, (2010) The BERT2 infrastructure: An integrated system for the study of human-robot interaction Proceedings of the 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2010, pp. 346-351.

Liu, Wenguo and Alan F.T. Winfield, (2010) 'Open-hardware e-puck Linux extension board for experimental swarm robotics research', Microprocessors and Microsystems, published online August 14, 2010. doi: 10.1016/j.micpro.2010.08.002

Liu, Wenguo and Alan F.T. Winfield, (2010) 'Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications', ANTS2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Vol. 6234, pp. 107-118, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_10

Lock R.J., Vaidyanathan R., Burgess S.C., (2010), Development of a Biologically Inspired Multi-Modal Wing Model for Aerial-Aquatic Robotic Vehicles, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3404-3409, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2010

Lowe, R., Montebelli, A., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Ziemke, T. (2010), Towards an Energy-Motivation Autonomous Robot: A Study of Artificial Metabolism Constrained Dynamics. in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, (Artificial Life XII), 19-23 Aug 2010, Odense, Denmark.E-Book (Open Access), ISBN-10:0-262-29075-8, pp. 725-732. PDF

Mace M., Manmun M.K., Wang S., Gupta L., Vaidyanathan R., (2010), Real-time Implementation of a Non-invasive Tongue-based Human-Robot Interface, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 5846-5852, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2010

Mace M., Manmun M.K., Wang S., Gupta L., Vaidyanathan R., 2010 Real-Time Operation of an Aural Based Human Robot Interface 11th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS'2010) Conference, Plymouth, UK, pp 148-153, Aug 2010

Mahyuddin, M N, Arshad, M R, Ashraf, S Z & Herrmann, G., 2010, 'Simulation and Development of Two-Wheels Balancing Robot using State Feedback Controller and Reduced-Order Estimator', International Symposium on RoboticsAnd Intelligent Sensors (IRIS2010), Nagoya, (pp. 203-208), 2010.

Mamun K.A., Lutmen M.E., Vaidyanathan R., Stein J., Brown P., Liu X., Aziz T., Wang S., 2010, "Recognition of the laterality of voluntary movement from subthalamic activity" (abstract and poster), 8th Southampton Neuroscience Conference, Southampton, UK, Sept 2010

Montebelli, A., Lowe, R., Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C., Greenman, J. and Ziemke, T. (2010), Microbial Fuel Cell driven behavioral dynamics in robot simulations. Accepted for the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, (ALife XII), 19-23 Aug 2010, Odense, Denmark.E-Book (Open Access), ISBN-10:0-262-29075-8, pp. 749-756. PDF

Na, J, Herrmann, G & Ren, X., 2010, 'Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Time-delay System with Unknown Dead-Zone and Its Application to a Robotic Servo System', in Prahlad Vadakkepat, Jong-Hwan Kim, Norbert Jesse, Abdullah Al Mamun, Tan Kok Kiong, Jacky Baltes, John Anderson, Igor Verner and David Ahlgren (Eds.), Trends in Intelligent Robotics 13th FIRA Robot World Congress, FIRA 2010, Bangalore, India, September 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, (pp. 338-345), Springer, Berlin, 2010. ISBN: 3642158099 DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-15810-0

O'Dowd, P., Winfield, A.F.T., & Studley M.(2010)Towards accelerated distributed evolution for adaptive behaviours in swarm robotics, In: Belpaeme, T. ,Bugmann, G., Melhuish, C. and Witkowski, M. (eds.) Proc. of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2010. University of Plymouth, pp. 169-175.

Palmer D., Kirschenbaum M., Lanese A., Bledsoe R., Vaidyanathan R., (2010), "Using Estimated Global Information to Increase Mission Effectiveness for Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Swarms", 25th Bristol International Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems (UAVS) Conference, pp 23.1-23.2, Bristol, UK, April 2010

Pearson, Martin J., Ben Mitchinson, Jason Welsby, Tony Pipe and Tony J. Prescott., (2010), SCRATCHbot: Active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot, In Proceedings SAB2010,, LNAI 6226, pp.93-103, Pari, August 2010

Pipe A G, Vaidyanathan R, Melhuish C, Bremner P, Robinson P, Clark R A J, Lenz A, Eder K, Hawes N, Ghahramani Z, Fraser M, Mirmehdi M, Healey P, Skachek S, (2010) Affective Robotics: Human Motion and Behavioural Inspiration for Safe Cooperation between Humans and Humanoid Assistive Robots. in Biomimetics: Nature-Based Innovation, Y. Bar-Cohen (Ed.), CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN-10: 1439834768, ISBN-13: 9781439834763.

Raabe, D., Dogramadzi, S., Atkins, RM and Obi, N. (2010), Automated reduction of complete joint fractures, European Orthopaedics Research Society - 18th European Conference on Orthopaedics, June 30-July 2, 2010, Davos/CH

Riek, L. D., Rabinowitch, T., Bremner, P., Pipe, A. G., Fraser, M., and Robinson, P. (2010), Cooperative gestures: effective signaling for humanoid robots. In Proceeding of the 5th ACM/IEEE international Conference on Human-Robot interaction

Rossiter, J.M., Takashima, K., Mukai, T.,(2010), Dielectric elastomer actuators with zero-energy fixity, Proceedings of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD XII), SPIE Vol. 7642, 2010

Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Pipe, T. (2010) Bio-inspired self-test for evolvable fault tolerant hardware systems NASA/ESA/IEEE Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), 15-18 June 2010, pp. 325 - 332, Anaheim, CA, USA, E-ISBN: 978-1-4244-5888-2, Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-5887-5

Sareh S., Conn, A.T., Rossiter, J.M.,(2010), Optimization of bio-inspired multi-segment IPMC cilia, Proceedings of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD XII), SPIE Vol. 7642.

Spiers, A., G. Herrmann, C. Melhuish, and A.G. Pipe, (2010). A Neural Network Method of Learning Human Motion by Observation in Operational Space, Humanoids 2010. 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages 86-91, 2010

Spiers, A., G. Herrmann, and C. Melhuish, (2010) "An Optimal Sliding Mode Controller Applied to Human Motion Synthesis with Robotic Implementation", American Control Conference, 2010 - ACC2010, Baltimore, Maryland USA.

Winfield AFT and Griffiths F,(2010) 'Towards the Emergence of Artificial Culture in Collective Robot Systems', pp 431-439 in Symbiotic Multi-robot Organisms, Eds. P Levi and S Kernbach, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

Winfield AFT, Liu W and Bjerknes JD,(2010) 'Functional and Reliability Modelling of Swarm Robotic Systems', pp 56-79 in Symbiotic Multi-robot Organisms, Eds. P Levi and S Kernbach, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

Winfield, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J., (2010), The overshoot phenomenon as a function of internal resistance in microbial fuel cells. Journal of Biotechnology, Volume 150, Supplement 1, November 2010, Page 23, ISSN 0168-1656, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.08.072 .

Woodman, R., Winfield, A., Harper, C., Fraser, M. (2010), Safety Control Architecture for Personal Robots: Behavioural Suppression with Deliberative Control. The Seventh IARP Workshop on Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments, Toulouse, France. (in press)

Yang, W, Herrmann, G, Chen, X. & Lowenberg, MH. (2010) Dynamic gain scheduled control of a satellite with a robot manipulator, 3^rd. International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics (ISSCAA 2010), Harbin, China, (pp. 1151-1156), 2010. DOI:10.1109/ISSCAA.2010.5633473

2009

Anderson S R, Porrill J, Pearson M J, Pipe A G, Prescott A J, Dean P, (2009), An internal model for sensorimotor integration improves novelty detection in a simulated whisking task: implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in vibrissal processing, Procs. Society for Neuroscience.

Anderson S R, Porrill J, Pearson M J, Pipe A G, Prescott A J, Dean P, (2009), Cerebellar-inspired forward model of whisking enhances contact detection by vibrissae of robot rat, Procs. Society for Neuroscience.

Bachmann R.J., Vaidyanathan R., Ifju P.G., Quinn R.D., (2009), "Powered Flight and Walking Integrated in a Miniature Vehicle for Aerial and Terrestrial Mobility", Chapter 18 in Flying Insects and Robots, eds. D. Floreano, J. Zufferey., M. Srinivasan, C. Ellington, pp 247-271, Springer Verlag Press, ISBN: 97B-3-540-000, 2009

Bachmann, R., Boria, F., Vaidyanathan R., Ifju, P. and Quinn R. (2009) A Biologically-Inspired Micro Sensor Platform Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion. Mechanism and Machine Theory (MMT). 44, 512-526.

Bachmann, R., Vaidyanathan, R. and Quinn, R. (2009) Biologically Inspired Mechanisms Facilitating Locomotion Modality Transfer for Aerial Microrobots. In: 24th Bristol International Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems (UAVS) Conference, Bristol April 2009. pp 1-27, 15.

Bachmann. R., Vaidyanathan. R., Quinn. R. (2009) Drive Train Design Enabling Locomotion Transition of a Small Hybrid Air-Land Vehicle. In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St Louis, Oct 2009. p 6.

Benkhelifa E, Pipe A G, Dragffy G, Nibouche M, (2009), Design Innovation for Real World Applications, Using Evolutionary Algorithms. Procs. IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation CEC’09, Singapore. IEEE Xplore.

Blackmore, B. S. (2009), FutureFarm: the European farm of tomorrow. 7th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. eds. E. J. van Henten, D. Goense, and C. Lokhorst. The Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp.887-892.

Blackmore, B. S. (2009), New concepts in agricultural automation. Precision in arable farming - current practice and future potential. Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK, Home Grown Cereal Authority.

Boxerbaum, A., Dunbar T., Bachmann, R., Harkins, R., Quinn R., Burgess, S. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2009) Design and Testing of a Highly Mobile Insect-Inspired Autonomous Robot in a Beach Environment. International Journal of Design and Nature 4, 4, pp 1-18.

Boxerbaum, A., Klien, M., Quinn, R., Harkins, R. and Vaidyanathan R. (2009) Design Of A Semi-Autonomous Amphibious Surf-Zone Robot. Accepted for Publication In: IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics(AIM), Singapore July 2009. p.6

Bremner, P., Pipe, A., Fraser, M., Subramanian, S. and Melhuish, C., (2009), Beat Gesture Generation Rules for Human-Robot Interaction, in Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2009), IEEE Press.

Bremner, P., Pipe, A., Subramanian, S., Fraser, M. and Melhuish, C. (2009) Conversational Gestures in Human-Robot Interaction. In: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2009.

Buck, A. and Mayol, W. (2009) Improving Image Sets Through Sense Disambiguation and Context Ranking. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, San Antonio 11-14 October 2009. To Appear.

Burgess, S., Ling, C., Conn, A., Araromi, S., Wang, J. and Vaidyanathan R. (2009) Development of a novel Electro Active Polymer (EAP) actuator for driving the wings of flapping micro air vehicle. Accepted In: Eleventh International Conference on Optimum Design of Structures and Materials in Engineering, Algarve June 2009, p11.

Campbell, N., Lawrence, N. and Melhuish, C. (2009) Facial Behaviour Mapping - from Video Footage to a Robot Head. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 31 December 2008. 56(12), 1042-1049.

Chorley, C., Melhuish, C., Pipe, T. and Rossiter, J. (2009) Development of a Tactile Sensor Based on Biologically Inspired Edge Encoding. In: 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Munich 22- 26 June 2009. pp 1-6. Abstract

Dean P, Porrill J, Pearson M J, Pipe T, Prescott T J, Anderson S R, (2009), An internal model for sensorimotor integration improves novelty detection in a simulated whisking task: Implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in vibrissal processing, Procs. Society for Neuroscience.

Deittert M, Toomer C A, Richards A, Pipe A G, (2009), Dynamic Soaring Flight in Turbulence, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago.

Deittert M, Toomer C A, Richards A, Pipe A G, (2009), Engineless UAV propulsion by dynamic soaring, Journal of Guidance, Control and Navigation, Vol. 31, No. 5.

Evans, M., Fox, C., Pearson, M and Prescott, T. (2009) Spectral Template Based Classification of Robotic Whisker Sensor Signals in a Floor Texture Discrimination Task. in: Proceedings of TAROS, Ulster September 2009. pp19-24. Abstract

Fox, C., Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M. and Pipe, A. and Prescott, T. (2009) Contact Type Dependency of Texture Classification in a Whiskered Mobile Robot. Autonomous Robots. 26(4), 223-239.

Gálvez, A., Greenman, J. and Ieropoulos, I.(2009) Landfill leachate treatment using Microbial Fuel Cells: scale-up through plurality. Bioresource Technology, 100:5085-5091.

Greenman, J., Gálvez, A., Giusti, L., Ieropoulos, I.,(2009) Electricity from landfill leachate using microbial fuel cells; comparison with a biological aerated filter.Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 44(2), 112-119. Abstract

Henrik, C., Jaeckel, P., Campbell, N., Lawrence, N. and Melhuish, C. (2009) Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for Handling Ambiguous Facial Expressions. In: Proceedings Intelligent Systems and Automation: 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation (CISA'09), 5 March 2009. 1107, pp 147-153.

Ieropoulos, I., Anderson, I., Gisby, T., Wang, C., H. and Rossiter, J.(2009) Artificial Muscles Powered by Microbes. In: Proceedings of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD XI) Conference, San Diego 9-11 March 2009. SPIE Paper No. 7287-6. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Horsfield, I. (2009) Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots I and II. In: A. Adamatzky and M. Komosinski, eds. Artificial Life models in hardware. New York: Springer Press, Ch.9, pp 185-210, ISBN 10: 1848825293.

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Horsfield, I. (2009) Peripherals of BES — from Processing Current to Data Transmission. In: K. Rabaey, J. Keller and P. Lens, eds. Bioelectrochemical Systems: From Extracellular Electron Transfer to Biotechnological Applications. London: IWA Publishing, Ch.20, pp 409-420, ISBN: 9781843392330.

Kernbach, S., Hamann, H., Stradner, J., Thenius, R., Schmickl, T., van Rossum, A.C., Sebag, M., Bredeche, N., Yao, Y., Baele, G., de Peer, Y. Van, Timmis, J., Mohktar, M., Tyrrell, A., Eiben, A.E., McKibbin, S.P., Liu, W., & Winfield, A.F.T., (2009) 'On adaptive self-organization in artificial robot organisms', In Proc. 1st IEEE International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (IEEE ADAPTIVE 2009), 2009.

Kernbach, S., Meister, E., Scholz, O., Humza, R., Liedke, J., Ricotti, L., Jemai, J., Havlik, J. and Liu, W. (2009) Evolutionary Robotics: The Next-Generation-Platform for On-line and On-board Artificial Evolution. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC), Trondheim 2009.

Kota, S., Gupta, L., Molfese, D. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2009) A Dynamic Channel Selection Strategy for Dense Array ERP Classification. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 56(4), 1040-1051.

Kota, S., Mace, M., Gupta, L. and Vaidyanathan R. (2009) A DCT-Gaussian Classification Scheme for Human Robot Interface. Accepted for Publication In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St Louis October 2009, p 6.

Kubo, M., H.Sato, T. Matubara, C.Melhuish (2009) "High survivability of a large colony through a small-world relationship", Artificial Life and Robotics, Volume 14, Number 2, pp 168-173 (2009).

Lenz, A., Anderson, S., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., Dean, P. and Porrill, J. (2009) Cerebellar-Inspired Adaptive Control of a Robot Eye Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B: Cybernetics. 39(5).

Liu W and A.F.T. Winfield, 2009 'Implementation of an IR approach for Autonomous Docking in a self-configurable Robotics System', in Proc. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2009), Ulster, 31 August - 2 September 2009.

Liu, W., Winfield, A. and Sa, J. (2009) A Macroscopic Probabilistic Model of Adaptive Foraging in Swarm Robotics Systems. In: Proc. of 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Mathmod 2009), Special Session on Modelling the Swarm, Vienna 11-13 February 2009.

Lock R., Vaidyanathan, R., Burgess, S. and Quinn R. (2009) Impact of Passive Stiffness Variation on Stability and Mobility of a Hexapod Robot. Accepted for Publication In: IEEE /ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Singapore July 2009, p 7.

Ma, Y., Zhu, Q.M., Winfield, A. and Yan, Q., 2009 'Simulation research on braking performance of hydrodynamic torque converter and retarder based on automatic shifting rules', Int. J. Modelling, Identification and Control, 8 (1), 80-87, 2009.

Mace, M., Vaidyanathan, R., Wang, S. and Gupta, L. (2009) Tongue in Cheek: A Novel Concept in Assistive Human Machine Interface. Accepted for publication: Journal of Assistive Technologies. 3(3), 14-26.

Mamun, K., Mace, M., Lutmen, M., R. Vaidyanathan, R. and S. Wang, S. (2009) Pattern Classification of Tongue Movement Ear Pressure Signal Based on Wavelet Packet Feature Extraction. PGBioMed 2009 Oxford July 2009.

Mamun, K., Mace, M., Lutmen, M., Vaidyanathan, R. and Wang, S. (2009) Bayesian Classification of Tongue Movement Based on Wavelet Packet Transformation. INSPIRE 2009, London September 2009.

Pearson M J, Pipe T, Welsby J, Mitchinson B, Anderson S, Prescott T J, (2009), SCRATCHbot presented at barrels XXII, Chicago, USA.

Pellegrini, F., Egerstedt, M., Schenato, L., Redi, J. and Winfield, A (2009) MONET ROBOCOMM 2007. In: A. Winfield, Guest ed. Special Issue in ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications. 14(3).

Prescott T J, Pearson MJ, Mitchinson B, Sullivan J C W, Pipe A G, (2009), Whisking with Robots: From Rat Vibrissae to Biomimetic Technology for Active Touch, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. September 2009 issue: 42-50.

Rettie, R., Studley, M. and Barnham, C. (2009) CHARM: social norms marketing for energy efficiency In: First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour 2009: Connecting Policy, Theory and Practice; 18-20 Oct 2009, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Rocks, C., Jenkins, S., Studley, M. & McGoran, D.(2009) 'Heart Robot', a Public Engagement Project in Robots in the Wild: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments, Special Issue of Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, ed. Dautenhahn, K., 10:3 (2009).

Rossiter, Jonathan, Peter Walters, and Boyko Stoimenov.(2009)'Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics.' Proceedings of the 11^th. SPIE Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) conference, San Diego, California, USA, March 2009.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G. and Pipe, A. (2009) Novel Bio-Inspired Self-Repair Algorithm for Evolvable Fault Tolerant Hardware Systems. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), Montreal 8-12July 2009. Abstract

Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Popescu, A., Pipe, A. and Kiely, J. (2009) Prokaryotic Bio-Inspired System. In: The NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), California 29 July – 1 August 2009. pp 171-178.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G., Popescu, A., Pipe, A. and Melhuish, C. (2009) Prokaryotic Bio-Inspired Model for Embryonics. In: The NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), California 29 July – 1 August 2009. pp 163-170.

Spiers, A., Herrmann, G., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A. and Lenz, A. (2009) Robotic Implementation of Realistic Reaching Motion Using a Sliding Mode/Operational Space Controller. In: S. Ge, U. Witkowski, D., Kim, J., Kim, U., Rückert, D., Sandberg, M., Wahde, C., Cho, J. Cabibihan, Y. Pan, eds. In: Advances in Robotics - FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon 16-20 August 2009. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 230-238. Abstract

Spiers, A., Melhuish, C. and Herrmann, G. (2009) Implementing 'Discomfort' in Operational Space: Practical Application. In: 10th Anniversary of TAROS - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Londonderry 31 August – 3 September 2009. Abstract

Studley, M., Rocks, C., McGoran, D. (2009) Engaging the Public with a Hybrid Puppet PerAda Magazine - towards pervasive adaptation.

Walters, Peter (2009)'3D Printing and Fabrication of "Smart" Responsive Devices: A Comparative Investigation.' Proceedings of IS&T NIP25/Digital Fabrication 2009 Society of Imaging Science and Technology, Digital Fabrication 2009, Louisville, Kentucky. 20 - 24 September 2009.

Winfield, A. (2009) Towards an Engineering Science of Robot Foraging. In: H. Asama, H. Kurokawa, J. Ota and K. Sekiyama, eds. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8. London: Springer, 2009, pp 185-192.

Winfield, J., Greenman, J. and Ieropoulos, I. (2009) Effects of Low-Rate, Incocula and Time on Anodic Development in Microbial Fuel Cells. In: 3rd FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists, Gothenburg 28 June - 2 July 2009. Abstract

2008

Anderson, S., Pearson, M., Porril, J., Prescott, T. and Dean, P (2008) Does the Cerebellum Cancel Self-Induced Noise in the Whisker Sensory Signals. Poster Presentation at Barrels, Balitmore, 13-14 November 2008.

Bachmann, R., Boria, F., Vaidyanathan, R., Ifju, P., Quinn, R. (2008) Adapting to Terrain Through Multiple Modes of Mobility. (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM), Cleveland June 2008. pp198-199.

Bindi, V., Strunk, J., Baker, J. Bacon, R., Boensel, M., Shoup, F., Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) Littoral Undersea Warfare: A Case Study in Process Modelling for Functionality and Interoperability of Complex Systems. International Journal of System of Systems Engineering (IJSSE). 1(1-2), 18-58.

Chorley, C., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A., Rossiter, J. and Whiteley, G. (2008) A Biologically Inspired Fingertip Design for Compliance and Strength. In: Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference, Edinburgh 1-3 September 2008. pp. 239-244. Abstract

Chrisley, R., Froese, T. and Spiers, A. (2008) Engineering conceptual change: The Enactive Torch. (extended abstract), /WPE-08: Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, London. Abstract

Conn, A., Burgess, S., Ling C. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) The Design Optimization of an Insect-Inspired Micro Air Vehicle. International Journal of Design and Nature. 3(1), 12-27.

Conn, A., Burgess, S., Ling, C. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) Design Optimisation of an Insect-Inspired Micro Air Vehicle. In: International Conference on Design and Nature, Portugal June 2008.

Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Blum, C., Clerc, M., Stutzle, T. and Winfield, A. (2008) Ant Colony Optimisation and Swarm Intelligence. In: Proceedings of 6th International Conference ANTS 2008. Springer-Verlag LNCS, 414.

Edwards, J., Lawry, J., Rossiter, J. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Extracting Textural Features from Tactile Sensors. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 2008. Vol 3(3). Abstract

Edwards, J., Lawry, J., Rossiter, J. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Relating Textural Concepts to Tactile Sensors. In: Proceedings of TAROS 2007, Edinburgh 1-3 September 2008. Abstract

Evans, M., Fox, C., Pearson, M. and Prescott, T. (2008) Radial Distance to Contact Estimation from Dynamic Robot Whisker Information. In: Poster Presentation at Barrels08. Balitmore, 13-14 November 2008.

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Biological Computing Using Perfusion Anodophile Biofilm Electrodes (PABE). International Journal Unconventional Computing. 4, 23-32. Abstract

Grespan, L.., Froese, T., Di Paolo, E., Seth, A.., Spiers, A. and Bigge, W. (2008) Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch. In: E. Ruffaldi & M. Fontana ed, Enactive08: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Pisa 2008. pp 105-110. Abstract

Gupta, L., Kota, S., Murali, S., Molfese, D. and Vaidyanathan R. (2008) Dimensionality Reduction Strategies for the Design of Human Machine Interface Signal Classifiers. In: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Singapore Oct 2008. pp 2432-2436.

Harkins, R., Dunbar, T., Boxerbaum, A., Bachmann, R., Vaidyanathan, R. and Quinn R. (2008) Design and Testing of an Autonomous Highly Mobile Robot in a Beach Environment. In: International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics (ICIAR), San Francisco Oct 2008. pp 613-618. (Award: Finalist :Best Paper in Conference).

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Melhuish C. (2008) Small Scale Microbial Fuel Cells – Large Scale Power. (Abstract) 242 included in the programme of the 3rd Biological Fuel Cells Symposium (B3) of the 213th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Phoenix 18-23 May 2008. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Anderson, I., Gisby, T., Wang, C., H. and Rossiter, J. (2008) Microbial-powered artificial muscles for autonomous robots. In: Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference, Edinburgh 1-3 September 2008. pp 209-216. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Improved energy output levels from small scale Microbial Fuel Cells. In: Proceedings of the 1st Biological Fuel Cells Workshop, Surrey 23-25 July 2008. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Microbial fuel cells based on carbon veil electrodes: Stack configuration and scalability. International Journal Energy Research. 32(13), 1228-1240. Abstract

Kirschenbaum, M., Palmer, D. and Vaidynathan R. (2008) Lots of Simple, Little Things Interacting in Intelligent Ways: What We Can Learn About Problem-Solving from a Swarm of Ants. In: Proceedings of the 41st ASCUE Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach June 2008, pp 41-50.

Kota, S., Gupta, L., Molfese, D. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Dense Array ERP Classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), Vancouver August 2008, pp 2091-2094.

Kovacina, M., Palmer, D., Branicky, M. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) Evolutionary Generation and Adaptation of Decentralized Swarming Algorithms. In: 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM), Cleveland June 2008, pp 46-47.

Kovacina, M., Palmer, D., Branicky, M. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2008) Use of a Mixed Radix Fitness Function to Evolve Swarm Behaviours. In: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS), St Louis 2008, pp 1-6.

Lenz A, Balakrishnan T, Pipe A G, Melhuish C, (2008), An adaptive gaze stabilization controller inspired by the vestibulo-ocular reflex, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 3, no. 3.

Lock, R., Vaidyanathan, R. and Burgess, S. (2008) Morphing Modes of Mobility in Natural and Engineering Systems. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering, Portugal June 2008. pp 157-167.

Palmer, D., Kirshenbaum, M., Quinn, R. and Vaidyanathan, R (2008) Adaptation in Human Collective Behaviour as Inspiration for Robot Swarming. (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland June 2008.

Pearson, M., Mitchinson, B., Fox, C., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C. and Prescott, T (2008) Whisking with Robots: Using Embodied Modeling to Understand Active Vibrissal Touch. In: Poster Presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting, Washington DC 16-19 November 2008.

Pearson, M., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C. and Prescott, T. (2008) Computational Neuroethological Modelling of the Rat Facial Whiskers. In: Proceedings of Biological Approaches to Engineering Conference (BAEC), Southampton 17-19 March 2008. pp 135-138.

Sahin, E. and Winfield A. (2008) Special Issue on Swarm Robotics. Swarm Intelligence. 2(2-4).

Samie, M., Farjah, E. and Dragffy, G. (2008) Cyclic Metamorphic Memory for Cellular Bio-Inspired Electronic Systems. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 9(3), 183-201.

Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M., Gupta, L., Kurcan, R., Kota, S., Lin, D. and Quinn, R. (2008) A Dual Mode Aural Human-Robot Teleoperation Interface. In: 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM), Cleveland June 2008. pp 229-230.

Vaidyanathan, R., Prince T., Modarreszadeh M., Gupta L. and Lisy F. (2008) Computationally Efficient Predictive Adaptive Control for Robotic Operation in Dynamic Environments. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IMECHE) Part B, Journal of Engineering Manufacture. 222(12), pp 1695-1714.

Vaidyanathan. R., Prince T., Modarrasadah, M. and Lisy F. (2008) Computationally Efficient Predictive Adaptive Control for Robot Operation in Dynamic Environments. In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice September 2008. pp 3306-3311.

Vaidyanathan, R., Wang, S. and Gupta, L. (2008) Wavelet Denoising for Aural Signal Isolation. In: IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), Vancouver August 2008. pp 2677-2680.

Walters, P., Rossiter, J. M. (2008)'Three-Dimensional Fabrication of Smart Actuators: Design Applications' IS&T International Conference on Digital Fabrication Technologies, 6-11 September 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Whitcomb, C., Vaidyanathan, R., Pluta, J., Kiihne, J. and Solitario, W. (2008) Architecture Development for an Unmanned Vehicle Sentry System of Systems. In: 23rd Bristol International Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems (UAVS) Conference, Bristol April 2008. pp 5.1-5.14.

Winfield A., Liu W., Nembrini J. and Martinoli A. (2008) Modelling a Wireless Connected Swarm of Mobile Robots. Swarm Intelligence. 2(2-4), 241-266.

2007

Bagnall, A., Cawley, G., Whittley, I., Bull, L., Studley, M., Tekiner, F. and Pettipher, M. (2007) Super Computer Heterogeneous Classifier Meta-Ensembles. International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining. 3(2), 67-82

Benkhelifa, E., Pipe, A., Dragffy, G., Nibouche, M. (2007) Evolvable Hardware: A Problem of Generalisation. Which Works Best: Large Population Size and Small Number of Generations or vice versa? In: International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer Verlag.

Benkhelifa, E., Pipe, A., Dragffy, G., Nibouche, M., (2007) Towards Evolving Fault Tolerant Biologically Inspired Hardware Using Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Proceeding of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Singapore 25-28 September 2007. EI Compendex Database and IEEE Xplore.

Benkhelifa, E., Pipe, A., Nibouche, M., Dragffy, G. (2007) Steps Forward to Evolve Bio-Inspired Embryonic Cell-Based Electronic Systems. In: Proceeding of the International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES),Wuhan 21-23 September 2007. China: Springer Verlag, pp 174-185.

Benkhelifa, E., Pipe, A., Dragffy, G., Nibouche, M. (2007) Evolvable Embryonics: Promising Early Results to an Automatic Design of Self-Repair Hardware System. In: Proceeding of the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM), Nevada 25-28 June 2007. Las Vegas: CSREA Press.

Bindi, V., Strunk, J., Baker, J. Bacon, R., Boensel, M., Shoup, F. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2007) Littoral Undersea Warfare: A Case Study in Process Modeling for Functionality and Interoperability of Complex Systems. In: International Conference on Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations (MECS07), Norfolk October 2007. pp 23.

Bjerknes, J., Liu, W., Winfield, A. and Melhuish C (2007) Low Cost Ultrasonic Positioning System for Mobile Robots. In: Proceedings Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2007), Aberystwyth 3-5 September 2007. pp 107-114.

Bjerknes, J., Winfield, A. and Melhuish, C. (2007) An Analysis of Emergent Taxis in a Wireless Connected Swarm of Mobile Robots. In: Proc. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS 2007), Hawaii April 2007. Abstract

Blackmore, B. S. (2007), A systems view of agricultural robots (keynote address). Precision Agriculture '07. ed. J. Stafford, V. The Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp.23-31.

Blackmore, B. S. and Blackmore, C. P. (2007), People, robots and systemic decision making. Precision Agriculture '07. ed. J. Stafford, V. Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp.433-439.

Blackmore, B. S., Griepentrog, H. W., and Fountas, S. (2007), A specification for an autonomous mechanization system (Keynote address). Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR Journal of Scientific Research and Development IX:PM 06 032

Blackmore, B. S., Fountas, S., Vougioukas, S., Tang, L., Sørensen, C. G., and Jørgensen, R. (2007), Decomposition of agricultural tasks into robotic behaviours. The CIGR Journal of AE Scientific Research and Development Volume IX (2007):

Bledsoe, R., Vaidyanathan, R., Durham, J. and Yun, X. (2007) Semi-Autonomous Micro Robot Control and Video Relay Through Internet and Iridium Networks. IEEE International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOM), Athens October 2007. 4pp.

Bull, L., Studley, M., Bagnall, A. and Whittley, I. (2007) Accuracy-based Learning Classifier System Ensembles with Rule-Sharing. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Edwards, J., Melhuish, C., Lawry, J. and Rossiter, J. (2007) Feature Identification for Texture Description from Tactile Sensors. In: Proceedings of TAROS 2007, Aberystwyth 3-5 September 2007. Abstract

Froese, T. and Spiers, A. (2007) Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception. In: Enactive/07 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Grenoble 2007., France: Association ACROE, pp 105-108. Abstract

Griepentrog, H. W. and Blackmore, B. S. (2007), Autonomous Crop Establishment and Control System. VDI BERICHTE. Germany, 65th International Conference on Agricultural Engineering, Hanover. pp.175-182.

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C. and Greenman, J. (2007) Artificial Gills for Robots: MFC Behaviour in Water. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 2(3), S83-S93. Abstract

Jaeckel, P., l Campbell, N. and Melhuish, C. (2007) Towards Realistic Facial Behaviour - Mapping from Video Footage to a Robot Head. In: 10th edition of the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), IEEE, June 2007. pp 833 – 838

Jaeckel, P., Campbell, N. and Melhuish, C. (2007) Mapping from Video Footage to a Robot Head. In: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (Taros) 2007. pp 9-16

Kirshenbaum, M., Palmer D., McCullick, P. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2007) Explaining Swarm Design Concepts using an Interactive, Bottom-up Simulation Tool. In: IEEE Xplore Conference ProceedingsI, EEE International Joint Conferences on Computer Information Systems Sciences, and Engineering, Bridgeport, Dececember 2007.

Lenz, A., Balakrishnan, T., Pipe, A. and Melhuish, C. (2007) Eye-Robot: A Biologically Inspired Adaptive Controller. TAROS 2007.

Liu, W., Winfield, A., Sa, J., Chen, J., and Dou, L. (2007a). Towards Energy Optimisation: Emergent Task Allocation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots. Adaptive Behavior. 15(3), 289–305.

Liu, W., Winfield, A., and Sa, J. (2007b). Modelling Swarm Robotic System: A Case Study in Collective Foraging. In: M. S. Wilson, F. Labrosse, U. Nehmzow, C. Melhuish and M. Witkowski, eds. Proceeding of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Aberystwyth 2007. pp 25 – 32.

Papoutsidakis, M., Chamilothoris, G. and Pipe, A. (2007), Auto-Selective Three Term Control of Position and Compliance of a Pneumatic Actuator. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Enformatika). 4(2), 786-790.

Pearson, M., Pipe, A., Mitchinson, B., Gurney, K., Melhuish, C., Gilhespy, I. and Nibouche, M. (2007) Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal Processing and Control Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 18(5), 1472-1487.

Pearson M., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Prescott, T. (2007) Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on The Rat Whisker Sensory System. Journal of Adaptive Behavior. 15(3), 223-240.

Pipe, A. and Carse, B. (2007) Fuzzy Classifier System Architectures for Mobile Robotics: an Experimental Comparison. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 22(9), 993-1020.

Qiao, F., Zhu, Q., Winfield, A., Melhuish, C. and Zhang, L. (2007) Indirect Fuzzy Adaptive Control of Robotic Manipulator Based on Sliding Mode Scheme. Accepted for publication in IEEE ICMA 2007.

Quinn, R., Ifju, P., Bachmann, R. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2007) A Small, Biologically-Inspired Vehicle with Hybrid Air-Land Mobility (Abstract). Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Switzerland August 2007.

Sahin, E., Spears, W. and Winfield, A. (2007) SAB'06 Swarm Robotics Workshop. In: ISBN 978-3-540-71540-5. Edited book. Springer-Verlag. pp 221.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G. and Kiely, J (2007) Novel Embryonic with Neural Network Characteristics. In: Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, Edinbrough 5-8 August 2007. pp 420-430.

Vaidyanathan, R. and James, C. (2007) Independent Component Analysis for Extraction of Critical Features from Tongue Movement Ear Pressure Signals. In: IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), Lyon August 2007. pp 5481 5484.

Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M., Gupta, L., Kurcan, R., Lin, D., Kota, S. and Quinn, R. (2007) A Dual Mode Human-Robot Interface Based on Physiological Signal Capture in the Aural Cavity. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). 26(11-12), 1205-1223.

Walters, P. and Thirkell, P. (2007) 'New technologies for 3D realization in art and design practice' in Artifact, Volume 1, Issue 4, 2007, pages 232-245

2006

Ampatzidis, Y., Vougioukas, S., Blackmore, B. S., and Bochtis, D. (2006), An Object-Oriented Asynchronous Kalman Filter with Outlier Rejection for Autonomous Tractor Navigation. VDI BERICHTE 1958:303.

Bagnall, A., Whittley, I., Janacek, G., Kemsley, K., Studley, M. and Bull, L. (2006) A Comparison of DWT/PAA and DFT for Time Series Classification. In: 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, 2006.

Bagnall, A., Whittley, I., Studley, M., Pettipher, M. and Tekiner, F. and Bull, L. (2006) Variance Stabilizing Regression Ensembles for Environmental Models. In: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2006.

Blackmore, B. S., Fountas, S., Gemtos, T., and Vougioukas, S. (2006), EcoBots; Improved energy utilisation through smaller smarter machines. September 9-10, 2006, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan, 3rd IFAC International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems.

Bulbuller, G., Fargues, M. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2006) In-Ear Microphone Speech Data Segmentation and Recognition Using Neural Networks. In: IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings ofDigital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th Signal Processing Education Workshop, September 2006.

Deittert, M., Toomer, C., Pipe, A. (2006) Biologically Inspired UAV Propulsion. In: Proceedings of 21st International UAV Systems Conference, Bristol 2006.

Edwards, J., Froud,D., Lawry,J. and Melhuish, C. (2006) Vague Concept Learning with Robotic Systems. In: TAROS'06 proceedings. pp 46-47. Abstract

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I., McKenzie, C. and Melhuish, C. (2006)Microbial Computing using Geobacter Biofilm Electrodes: Output Stability and Consistency. International Journal of Unconventional Computing.2(3), 249-265. Abstract

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Melhuish, C. (2006) Perfusion Anodophile Biofilm Electrodes and their Potential for Computing. In: A. Adamatzky and C. Teuscher, eds. Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers. pp. 67-78. Abstract

Harper, C. and Winfield, A. (2006) A Methodology for Provably Stable Behaviour-Based Intelligent Control. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 54 (1), 52-73

Harper, C. and Winfield, A. (2006) Designing intelligent control systems for safety-critical applications. In: Proceedings of IEE 1st International Conference on System Safety Engineering, London June 2006. Abstract

Jones, K., Boria, F., Bachmann, R., Vaidyanathan, R., Ifju, P. and Quinn, R. (2006) MMALV The Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle. In: IEEE International Xplore Conference Proceedings of Robotics on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Video Proceedings, Beijing Oct 2006.

Khot, L. R., Tang, L., Blackmore, B. S., and Nørremark, M. (2006), Navigational context recognition for an autonomous robot in a simulated tree plantation. Transactions of the ASABE 49:51579-1588.

Kurcan, R., Fargues, M. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2006) In-Ear Microphone Speech Data Recognition Using HMMs In: IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings of Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th Signal Processing Education Workshop, September 2006.

Liu, W., Winfield, A., Sa, J., Chen, J. and Dou, L. (2006) Strategies for Energy Optimisation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots. In: E., Sahin, W. Spears and A. Winfield, eds. Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome 30 September - 1 October, 2006. (Revised Selected Papers). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4433, pp. 14–26. London: Springer.

McCarthy, C., Wyllie, R., Vaidyanathan, R. and Paulo, G. (2006) An Integrated Systems Architecture to Provide Maritime Domain Protection. Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS). 3(2), 63-75.

Melhuish, C., Sendova-Franks, A., Scholes, S., Horsfield, I. and Weslby, F. (2006) Ant Inspired Sorting by Robots: the Importance of Initial Clustering. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 3. 235-242

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J. (2006) Artificial Gills for Robots: Oxygen for Sustenance. In: TAROS'06 proceedings. pp 118-125. (Best paper award from Institute of Physics).

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Horsfield, I. (2006) Energetically Autonomous Robots: Food for Thought. Autonomous Robots. 21(3), 187-198. Abstract

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J. (2006)Artificial Gills for Robots: Underwater Energy Autonomy with MFCs. In: Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems(TAROS)'06 conference, Guildford 4-6 September 2006. Abstract

Mitchell, T. and Pipe, A. (2006) A Comparison Of Evolution Strategy-Based Methods For Frequency Modulated Musical Tone Timbre Matching. In: Seventh International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM 2006).

Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., Prescott, T. (2006) A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System. In: Proceedings of The International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (ISAB), Rome 25-29 September 2006.

Pearson, M., Nibouche, M., Gilhespy, I., Gurney, K., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B. and Pipe, A. (2006) A Hardware Based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Neuromorphic Signal Processing Applications. In: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse 14-19 May 2006.

Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B. and Prescott, T. (2006) Hardware Based Brain Stem Sub-Nucleus Model for Brain-Based Robotic Experimentation. In: Proceedings of Computational NeuroScience (CNS), Edinburgh 16-20 July 2006.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, A. (2006) A Biologically Inspired FPGA based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Object Recognition and Texture Discrimination. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Madrid 28-30 August 2006.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, T. (2006) Further Work on a Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. In: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Guilford 4-6 September 2006.

Pedersen, S. M., Fountas, S., Have, H., and Blackmore, B. S. (2006), Agricultural robots - system analysis and economic feasibility. Precision Agriculture Journal 7:4295-308.

Porrill, J., Dean, P., Anderson, S., Dutia, M., Menzies, J., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A., Lenz, A. and Balakrishnan, T. (2006) Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Control System. In: Presentation at CNS 2006. p 81, S55.

Porrill, J., Dean, P., Anderson, S., Dutia, M., Menzies, J., Melhuish, C., Pipe, T., Lenz, A. and Balakrishnan, T. (2006) Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inpsired Control System: From Electrophysiology to Robotics. In: Computational Neuroscience, Edinburgh 2006.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G. and Farjah, E. (2006) Bio-Inspired Celluar Systems With Cyclic Metamorphic Memory. In: CDES International Conference on Computer Design, Nevada 2006. pp 160-168.

Samie, M., Dragffy, G. and Ebrahim Farjah, E. (2006) Metamorphic Memory Based Bio-Inspired Reconfigurable Celluar Systems. In: ERSA 2006 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms, Nevada 26-29 June 2006. pp 219-222.

Skachek, S., Adamatzky, A. and Melhuish C. (2006) Manipulating Planar Shapes by Light-Sensitive Excitable Medium: Computational Studies of Closed Loop Systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 16(8) (2006), 2333-2349.

Studley, M. (2006) Learning Classifier Systems for Multi-objective Robot Control. Doctoral Thesis, University of the West of England. Available from: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/lcsg/ as technical report UWELCSG06-05.

Studley, M. and Bull, L. (2006) Using the XCS Classifier System for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Problems. Artificial Life. 13(1), 69-86.

Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M., Gupta, L., Kota, S., Lin D. and West, J. (2006) A Human-Machine Interface for Rehabilitative Device Control Based on Aural Flow Monitoring. In: IEEE RAS-EMBS International Xplore Conference Proceedings on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa February 2006.

Vaidyanathan, R., Gupta, L., Kook, H. and West, J. (2006) A Decision Fusion Pattern Classification Architecture for Human-Robotic Interface.In: IEEE International Conference Proceedings of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando May 2006. pp 3610-3617

Vougioukas, S., Blackmore, S., Nielsen, J., and Fountas, S. (2006), A two-stage optimal motion planner for autonomous agricultural vehicles. Precision Agriculture 7:5361-377.

Whittley, I., Bagnall, A., Bull, L., Pettipher, M., Studley, M. and Tekiner, F. (2006) Attribute Selection Methods for Filtered Attribute Subspace based Bagging with Injected Randomness (FASBIR). In: Feature Selection for Data Mining Workshop, Part of the 2006 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2006.

Winfield, A., Harper, C. and Nembrini, J. (2006) Towards the Application of Swarm Intelligence in Safety-Critical Applications. In: Proceeding IEE 1st International Conference on System Safety Engineering, London June 2006. Abstract

Zhang, X., Dragffy, G., Pipe, A. and Zhu, Q. (2006) Embryonics: A Path to Artificial Life?. Journal Artificial Life. 12(3), 313-323.

2005

Adamatzky, A., Skachek, S., Costello, B. and Melhuish, C. (2005) Manipulating Objects with Chemical Waves: Open Loop Case of Experimental Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium. Physics Letters A 350. pp. 201-209.

Bachmann, R., Boria, F., Ifju, P., Quinn, R., Kline, J. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2005) Utility of a Sensor Platform Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion. In: Proceedings of IEEE Xplore/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey July 2005.

Blackmore, B. S., Have, H., Shariff, A. R. B. M., and Noguchi, N. (2005), Mobile robots for tree care. Fruitic05; Information and technology for sustainable fruit and vegetable production. pp.737-744.

Blackmore, B. S., Stout, W., Wang, M., and Runov, B. (2005), Robotic agriculture : the future of agricultural mechanisation? 5th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. ed. J. Stafford, V. The Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp.621-628.

Blackmore, B. S. and Shariff, A. R. B. M. (2005), Natural language semantics to describe agricultural robotic behaviours (Keynote address), First Asian Conference on Precision Agriculture. ed. S. Shibusawa. Tokyo, Japan, TUAT. pp.341-349.

Boria, F., Bachmann, R., Ifju, P., Quinn, R., Vaidyanathan, R., Perry, C. and Wagener, J (2005) A Sensor Platform Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion. In: Proceedings of IEEE Xplore International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver August 2005.

Boxerbaum, A., Werk, P., Vaidyanathan, R. and Quinn, R. (2005) Design of an Autonomous Amphibious Robot for Surf Zone Operations: Mechanical Design for Multi-Mode Mobility. In: Proceedings of IEEE Xplore/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey July 2005.

Bull, L., Studley, M., Bagnall, A. and Whittley, I. (2005) On the Use of Rule Sharing in Learning Classifier System Ensembles. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on E volutionary Computation. pp 612-617.

Bultitude, K., Johnson, B., Burnet, F., Evans, D. and Winfield, A. (2005) Robot Thought - A Dialogue Event for Family Audiences. In: Prococeedings of AISB 2005 Creative Robotics Symposium, Hatfield April 2005. Abstract

Harkins, R., Vaidynathan, R., Quinn, R., Boxerbaum, A. and Ward, J. (2005) Design of an Autonomous Amphibious Robot for Surf Zone Operations: Simulation, Control Hardware Implementation. In: Proceedings of IEEE Xplore/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey July 2005.

Have, H., Nielsen, J., Blackmore, B. S., and Theilby, F. (2005), Development and test of an autonomous Christmas tree weeder. 5th European conference on Precision Agriculture. ed. J. Stafford, V. The Netherlands, Wageningen Academic Publishers. pp.629-635.

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Hart, J. (2005)Comparative Study of Three Types of Microbial Fuel Cell. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 37(2), 238-245. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Hart, J.(2005) Energy Accumulation and Improved Performance in Microbial Fuel Cells Power Sources. Journal of Power Sources. 145(2), 253-256. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C., Greenman, J. and Horsfield, I.(2005) Artificial Symbiosis: Towardsa Robot-microbe partnership. In: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS '05) Conference, London 12-14 September. Abstract

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C.,Greenman, J.and Horsfield, I.>(2005) EcoBot-II: An Artificial Agent with a Natural Metabolism. International Journal Advanced Robotics Systems. 2(4), 295-300. Abstract

Khot, L. R., Tang, L., Blackmore, B. S., and Nørremark, M. (2005), Posture Estimation for Autonomous Weeding Robots Navigation in Nursery Tree Plantations. 2005 ASAE International meeting. St. Joseph, Michigan, ASAE. Paper number 053092.

Kubo, M. and Melhuish, C. (2005) Energy Autonomy of Mobile Robots. ROBOMEC2005, Kobe 2005. pp1-4.

Mitchinson, B., Prescott, T., Martin, C., Gurney, K., Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I. and Pipe, A. (2005) A Computational Model of a Brainstem Loop for Whisker Pattern Generation. In: proceedings of Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington 2005.

Mitchell, T. and Pipe, A. (2005) Convergence Synthesis of Dynamic Frequency Modulation Tones Using an Evolution Strategy. In: Proceedings of EvoMUSART 2005, 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, 2005.

Nembrini, J., Reeves, N., Poncet, E., Martinoli, A. and Winfield, A. (2005) MASCARILLONS: Flying Swarm Intelligence for Architectural Research. In: Proceedings of IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS 2005), Pasadena June 2005. Abstract

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, A. (2005) A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. 2(4), 335-343.

Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A., Nibouche, M., Gilhesphy, I., Gurney, K. and Mitchinson, B. (2005)Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Tampere 24-26 August 2005.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Gurney, K., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M. and Pipe, A. (2005) A Real-Time, FPGA Based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Warsaw 11th-15th September 2005.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, T. (2005) A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for Use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles. In: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), London 12-14 September 2005.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, T. (2005) A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. In: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. 2(4), 335-343.

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M., Pipe, A. and Prescott, T. (2005) A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles. In: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2005), London 12-14 September 2005 .

Pearson, M., Gilhespy, I., Gurney, K., Melhuish, C., Mitchinson, B., Nibouche, M. and Pipe, A. (2005) A Real-Time, FPGA based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2005), Warsaw 11th-15th September 2005.

Pearson, M., Melhuish, C., Pipe, A., Nibouche, M., Gilhespy, I., Gurney, K. and Mitchinson, B. (2005) , Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Tampere 24-26 August 2005.

Pedersen, S. M., Fountas, S., Have, H., and Blackmore, B. S. (2005), Agricultural robots: an economic feasibility study. 5th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. ed. J. Stafford, V. POSTBUS 220, 6700 AE WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS, WAGENINGEN ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS. pp.589-596.

Pipe, A. and Carse, B. (2005) First Results from Further Experimental Comparisons Between Pittsburgh and Michigan Fuzzy Classifier Systems for Mobile Robotics. In: Proceedings of Fourth Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT 2005).

Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., Pearson, M., Gilhesphy, I., Mitchinson, B., Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. (2005) Artificial, Active Vibrissal Array Modelling the Mechanics and Neurology of Rat Whisking. In: Proceedings of Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington 2005.

Pope, N., Osborne, A. and Winfield, A. (2005) Immediate Distant Action and Correlation in Modern Physics: The Balanced Universe. London: Edwin Mellen Press.

Reeves, N., Poncet, E., Nembrini, J., Martinoli, A. and Winfield, A. (2005) [VOILES|SAILS], Self Assembling Intelligent Lighter-than-air Structures. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Generative Art, Milan December 2005. Abstract

Scholes, S., Sendova-Franks, A., Swift, S. and Chris Melhuish, C. (2005) Ants Can Sort Their Brood without a Gaseous Template. Journal of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 59, 531-540.

Shabaninia, F., Farjah, E. and Samie, M. (2005) Designing ADC by Means of Soft Computing. Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing. 11(3), 195-204.

Studley, M. and Bull, L.(2005) X-TCS: Accuracy-Based Learning Classifier System Robotics. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. pp 2099-2106.

Vougioukas, S., Blackmore, B. S., Nielsen, J., and Fountas, S. (2005), A two-stage route planning system for autonomous agricultural vehicles. 5th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. ed. J. Stafford, V. Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wageningen academic publishers. pp.597-604.

Vougioukas, S., Fountas, S., Blackmore, B. S., and Tang, L. (2005), Combining reactive and deterministic behaviours for mobile agricultural robots. Operational Research International Journal of the Hellenic Operational Research Society 5:1

Waldock, A., Carse, B. and Melhuish, C. (2005) Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Based Systems Using an Information Theoretic Approach. Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications. 10(10), 867-869.

Waldock, A., Carse, B. and Melhuish, C. (2005) Learning Hierarchical Fuzz Rule-Based Systems for a Mobile Robot Controller. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACDCA-ICMI 2005), Tozeur 2005. 1(1), pp 582-588.

Walton, D., Paulo, E., McCarthy, C. and Vaidyanathan, R. (2005) Modeling Force Response to Small Boat Attack Against High-Value Commercial Ships. In: Proceedings IEEE Xplore Winter Simulation Conference, December 2005. pp 988-991.

Winfield, A., Harper, C. and Nembrini, J. (2005) Towards Dependable Swarms and a New Discipline of Swarm Engineering. In: E. Sahin and W. Spears, eds. SAB'04 Swarm Robotics workshop. London: Springer-Verlag, pp 126-142. Abstract

Winfield, A., Sa, J., Gago, M., Dixon, C. and Fisher, M. (2005) On Formal Specification of Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems. International Journal Advanced Robotic Systems. 2(4), 363-370. Abstract

Winfield, A., Sa, J., Gago, M., Dixon, C. and Fisher, M. (2005) Using Temporal Logic to Specify Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems. In: Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2005), London September 2005. pp 243-250. Abstract

Yang, J., Montakhab, M., Pipe, A., Carse, B. and Davies, T. (2005) Application of Multi-Agent Technology to Fault Diagnosis of Power Distribution Systems. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies. 1(2), 1-16.

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