All Outputs (9)

Ethical assessment of a hospital disinfection robot (2023)
Journal Article
McGinn, C., Scott, R., Donnelly, N., Cullinan, M. F., Winfield, A., & Treusch, P. (2023). Ethical assessment of a hospital disinfection robot. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 12008-12014. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160903

Robots have the potential to deliver very positive impacts for society, however, it's critical that in preparing for real-world deployments, we recognize and take steps to mitigate against the potential harms, both direct and indirect, that they may... Read More about Ethical assessment of a hospital disinfection robot.

Feature and performance comparison of the V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS robot simulators (2018)
Journal Article
Pitonakova, L., Giuliani, M., Pipe, A., & Winfield, A. (2018). Feature and performance comparison of the V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS robot simulators. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10965 LNAI, 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_30

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. In this paper, the characteristics and performance of three open-source simulators for robotics, V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS, are thoroughly analysed and compared. While they all allow... Read More about Feature and performance comparison of the V-REP, Gazebo and ARGoS robot simulators.

Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, C., Lawry, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2018). Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11172 LNCS, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00533-7_8

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. There is a need for effective collective decision making in decentralised multi-agent and robotic systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to the best-of-n decision problem with large n. It utilises nega... Read More about Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics.

euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots (2016)
Journal Article
Winfield, A. F., Franco, M. P., Brueggemann, B., Castro, A., Limon, M. C., Ferri, G., …Viguria, A. (2016). euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9716, 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_36

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Staged at Piombino, Italy in September 2015, euRathlon 2015 was the world’s first multi-domain (air, land and sea) multi-robot search and rescue competition. In a mock-disaster scenario inspired b... Read More about euRathlon 2015: A multi-domain multi-robot grand challenge for search and rescue robots.

Rational imitation for robots (2016)
Journal Article
Winfield, A. F., Vanderelst, D., & Winfield, A. F. (2016). Rational imitation for robots. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9825 LNCS, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43488-9_6

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Infants imitate behaviour flexibly. Depending on the circumstances, they copy both actions and their effects or only reproduce the demonstrator’s intended goals. In view of this selective imitatio... Read More about Rational imitation for robots.

An artificial immune system for self-healing in swarm robotic systems (2015)
Journal Article
Winfield, A., Bjerknes, J. D., Ismail, A. R., Bjerknes, J. D., Timmis, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2015). An artificial immune system for self-healing in swarm robotic systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9303, 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23108-2_6

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Swarm robotics is concerned with the decentralised coordination of multiple robots having only limited communication and interaction abilities. Although fault tolerance and robustness to individua... Read More about An artificial immune system for self-healing in swarm robotic systems.

Towards an ethical robot: Internal models, consequences and ethical action selection (2014)
Journal Article
Winfield, A. F., Blum, C., & Liu, W. (2014). Towards an ethical robot: Internal models, consequences and ethical action selection. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8717 LNAI, 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_8

If robots are to be trusted, especially when interacting with humans, then they will need to be more than just safe. This paper explores the potential of robots capable of modelling and therefore predicting the consequences of both their own actions,... Read More about Towards an ethical robot: Internal models, consequences and ethical action selection.

On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems (2012)
Journal Article
Bjerknes, J. D., & Winfield, A. F. (2012). On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_31

This paper challenges the common assumption that swarm robotic systems are robust and scalable by default. We present an analysis based on both reliability modelling and experimental trials of a case study swarm performing team work, in which failure... Read More about On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems.

Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications (2010)
Journal Article
Liu, W., & Winfield, A. F. (2010). Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6234 LNCS, 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_10

This paper presents a simple decentralised morphology control mechanism for a swarm of self-assembling robots. Each robot in the system is fully autonomous and controlled using a behaviour-based approach with only infrared-based local sensing and com... Read More about Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications.