All Outputs (11)

The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams (2024)
Journal Article

As an embodied and spatial medium, virtual reality is proving an attractive proposition for robot teleoperation in hazardous environments. This paper examines a nuclear decommissioning scenario in which a simulated team of semi-autonomous robots are... Read More about The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams.

Lessons learned: Symbiotic autonomous robot ecosystem for nuclear environments (2023)
Journal Article

AbstractNuclear facilities have a regulatory requirement to measure radiation levels within Post Operational Clean Out (POCO) around nuclear facilities each year, resulting in a trend towards robotic deployments to gain an improved understanding duri... Read More about Lessons learned: Symbiotic autonomous robot ecosystem for nuclear environments.

Impact of resolution, colour, and motion on object identification in digital twins from robot sensor data (2022)
Journal Article

This paper makes a contribution to research on digital twins that are generated from robot sensor data. We present the results of an online user study in which 240 participants were tasked to identify real-world objects from robot point cloud data. I... Read More about Impact of resolution, colour, and motion on object identification in digital twins from robot sensor data.

The impact of data sonification in virtual reality robot teleoperation (2022)
Journal Article

Virtual Reality (VR) is being increasingly used to provide a more intuitive and embodied approach to robotic teleoperation, giving operators a sense of presence in the remote environment. Prior research has shown that presence can be enhanced when ad... Read More about The impact of data sonification in virtual reality robot teleoperation.

Audio-driven robot upper-body motion synthesis (2020)
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Body language is an important aspect of human communication, which an effective human-robot interaction interface should mimic well. Human beings exchange information and convey their thoughts and feelings through gaze, facial expressions, body langu... Read More about Audio-driven robot upper-body motion synthesis.

On proactive, transparent and verifiable ethical reasoning for robots (2019)
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Previous work on ethical machine reasoning has largely been theoretical, and where such systems have been implemented it has in general been only initial proofs of principle. Here we address the question of desirable attributes for such systems to im... Read More about On proactive, transparent and verifiable ethical reasoning for robots.

Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks (2017)
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© 2017 Bremner, Celiktutan and Gunes. Humanoid robot avatars are a potential new telecommunication tool, whereby a user is remotely represented by a robot that replicates their arm, head, and possible face movements. They have been shown to have a nu... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks.

Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech (2016)
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© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is t... Read More about Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech.

SABRE: A bio-inspired fault-tolerant electronic architecture (2013)
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As electronic devices become increasingly complex, ensuring their reliable, fault-free operation is becoming correspondingly more challenging. It can be observed that, in spite of their complexity, biological systems are highly reliable and fault tol... Read More about SABRE: A bio-inspired fault-tolerant electronic architecture.

Novel bio-inspired approach for fault-tolerant VLSI systems (2012)
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Living organisms are complex systems, and yet they possess extremely high degrees of reliability. Since failures are local, their repair will often be taken on the local (cell) level. Engineers have long sought systems that could offer similar reliab... Read More about Novel bio-inspired approach for fault-tolerant VLSI systems.

Cooperative gestures: Effective signaling for humanoid robots (2010)
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