Professor Matthew Studley's Outputs (51)

Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home (2024)
Journal Article

As robot numbers in the home increase, creating a market for second-hand robotic systems is essential to reduce the waste impact of the industry. Via a survey, consumer attitudes of United Kingdom participants towards second-hand robots were investig... Read More about Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home.

Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports a new process which can be used to re-purpose a robot at the end of its primary life. Repurposing a robot enables it to continue delivering value beyond the point at which it might have been otherwise recycled or scrapped. The repu... Read More about Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy.

On the relationship between benchmarking, standards and certification in robotics and AI (2024)
Book Chapter

Benchmarking, standards and certification are closely related processes. Standards can provide normative requirements that robotics and AI systems may or may not conform to. Certification generally relies upon conformance with one or more standards a... Read More about On the relationship between benchmarking, standards and certification in robotics and AI.

Trusted research environments for health data (2024)
Digital Artefact

This video captures the workshop on 'Trusted Research Environments for Health Data', delivered by David Western, Felix Ritchie, and Andy Gibson. This was part of the Connect, Collaborate, Create with Data and AI 2023 event organised by UWE Bristol an... Read More about Trusted research environments for health data.

Introducing the concept of repurposing robots; to increase their useful life, reduce waste, and improve sustainability in the robotics industry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on current definitions of electronic waste, the robotics industry faces a future where products created for both business and consumer markets could be required to meet regulations to manage the control of electronic products at the end of thei... Read More about Introducing the concept of repurposing robots; to increase their useful life, reduce waste, and improve sustainability in the robotics industry.

Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Real-time control for robotics is a popular research area in the reinforcement learning community. Through the use of techniques such as reward shaping, researchers have managed to train online agents across a multitude of domains. Despite these adva... Read More about Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning.

Roots and models (2023)
Journal Article

One of us comes from dance, the other from robotics, and you would be forgiven for thinking immediately about the YouTube films created by Boston Dynamics. But what connects us is our concern that human-ness is losing ground to machine-ness. To partl... Read More about Roots and models.

Arts and humanities shaping the AI future (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The organisation of this event was motivated by the view there should be more Arts and Humanities (A&H) perspectives, methods and approaches involved in shaping our future relationship with AI technology.

Our invitation was sent to the most diver... Read More about Arts and humanities shaping the AI future.

European robotics league: Benchmarking through smart city robot competitions (2023)
Book Chapter

The SciRoc project, started in 2018, is an EU-H2020 funded project supporting the European Robotics League (ERL) and builds on the success of the EU-FP7/H2020 projects RoCKIn, euRathlon, EuRoC and ROCKEU2. The ERL is a framework for robot competition... Read More about European robotics league: Benchmarking through smart city robot competitions.

Saltwater-responsive bubble artificial muscles using superabsorbent polymers (2022)
Journal Article

Robots operating in changing underwater environments may be required to adapt to these varying conditions. In tidal estuaries, for example, where the degree of salinity cycles in step with the level of the water, a robot may need to adapt its behavio... Read More about Saltwater-responsive bubble artificial muscles using superabsorbent polymers.

Benchmarking robots in smart cities (2022)
Journal Article

In order for robots to become integrated into society, we need to be able to prove that robots do their jobs reliably. Robot benchmarking competitions in smart cities offer a glimpse into our future.

A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults (2021)
Journal Article

This work explored the use of human–robot interaction research to investigate robot ethics. A longitudinal human–robot interaction study was conducted with self-reported healthy older adults to determine whether expression of artificial emotions by a... Read More about A new perspective on robot ethics through investigating human–robot interactions with older adults.

Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation (2021)
Journal Article

The global aviation industry has decades-old and highly successful legislation enforcing safety in conventional manned aerospace. This framework has been evolved gradually around a set of mature technologies with particular goals and implementations,... Read More about Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation.

Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality? (2021)
Journal Article

Many analyses of the ethical, legal and societal impacts of robotics are focussed on Europe and the United States. In this article I discuss the impacts of robotics on developing nations in a connected world, and make the case that international equi... Read More about Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality?.

Pulsed thermography digital motion stabilization for the unmanned vehicle inspection of solar farms and GFRP wind blades through UAVs and UGVs (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The quality control of structures and fuselages in both the wind-turbine and solar sectors is a fundamental part that allows a lifetime assessment of their elements, from its initial assembly to the recurring inspection cycles. Automating the active... Read More about Pulsed thermography digital motion stabilization for the unmanned vehicle inspection of solar farms and GFRP wind blades through UAVs and UGVs.

Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) addresses the common problem in sparse rewards environments of having to manually craft a reward function. We present a modified version of the Hierarchical Actor-Critic (HAC) architecture called Twin Delayed... Read More about Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic.

ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Force feedback in current teleoperation systems typically only provides haptic/kinaesthetic feedback to operators in the form of normal forces. However, it is proposed in this paper that the introduction of shear (or lateral) force feedback to operat... Read More about ShearTouch - Towards a wearable tactile feedback device to provide continuous shear force sensation in real time.

Robots in Smart Cities (2020)
Book Chapter

Robots and Smart Cities seem like natural partners. They both gather data and process it, and could provide added value to each other in a variety of ways. In this chapter, we briefly explore some potential use cases featuring the smart city as an in... Read More about Robots in Smart Cities.

ELSA in industrial robotics (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose of Review
Industry is changing; converging technologies allow a fourth Industrial Revolution, where it is envisaged that robots will work alongside humans. We investigate how the research community is responding to the ethical, legal, and so... Read More about ELSA in industrial robotics.

Usability study of a robot companion for monitoring industrial processes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we present the findings of a usability study for a monitoring robotic unit tele-operated via a virtual fixtures (VF) based control framework. The study aims at investigating the impact of VF on the robot navigation as well as the impact... Read More about Usability study of a robot companion for monitoring industrial processes.

The impact of affective verbal expressions in social robots (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates whether there is an ethical concern in robots misrepresenting their internal state through speech. Participants were asked to discuss their food preferences with a robot, where the robot would either respond through facts o... Read More about The impact of affective verbal expressions in social robots.

Speech related accessibility issues in social robots (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work describes an incidental finding from a longitudinal Human-Robot Interaction study that was investigating whether a robot showing emotions during interactions with older adults was perceived differently than to a robot that did not display e... Read More about Speech related accessibility issues in social robots.

Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults (2020)
Journal Article

Emotional deception and emotional attachment are regarded as ethical concerns in human robot interaction. Considering these concerns is essential, particularly as little is known about longitudinal effects of interactions with social robots. We ran a... Read More about Designing ethical social robots - A longitudinal field study with older adults.

Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors (2019)
Journal Article

Designing the individual robot rules that give rise to desired emergent swarm behaviors is difficult. The common method of running evolutionary algorithms off‐line to automatically discover controllers in simulation suffers from two disadvantages: th... Read More about Onboard Evolution of Understandable Swarm Behaviors.

The need for ethical principles and guidelines in social robots (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper stresses the importance of establishing ethical principles regarding possible (psychological) effects of interactions with (social) robots. It highlights existing principles and standards regarding artificial intelligence systems and robot... Read More about The need for ethical principles and guidelines in social robots.

Robot companion for industrial process monitoring based on virtual fixtures (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 IEEE. In this paper, the use of a monitoring companion is proposed to more efficiently collect the process information during the tuning of industrial systems, and therefore to assist the system integrator in the optimization process for compl... Read More about Robot companion for industrial process monitoring based on virtual fixtures.

Ethical considerations of (contextually) affective robot behaviour (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The use of social robots can bring many benefits, but raises ethical concerns as well. One of these concerns, emotional deception, was investigated in this research. First, affective robot behaviour is validated, followed by a user study to investiga... Read More about Ethical considerations of (contextually) affective robot behaviour.

Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area (2018)
Journal Article

Very large marine protected areas are in danger of becoming 'paper parks'. This paper uses an interdisciplinary team to investigate the use of remote sensing technologies to provide sufficient evidence for effective fisheries management. It uses the... Read More about Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area.

A two teraflop swarm (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Jones, Studley, Hauert and Winfield. We introduce the Xpuck swarm, a research platform with an aggregate raw processing power in excess of two teraflops. The swarm uses 16 e-puck robots augmented with custom hardware that uses the substantial... Read More about A two teraflop swarm.

Towards multimodal interactions: Robot jogging in mixed reality (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). The recent progress made in the field of Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) has opened new possibilities and approaches to research areas that can benefit from 3D visualization of digital content in... Read More about Towards multimodal interactions: Robot jogging in mixed reality.

Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we ask if care robots can care. The standard and indeed intuitive response to such a question is no. This response is premised on the argument that care requires internal cognitive and emotional states that robots lack. We explore ar... Read More about Could a Robot Care? It’s All in the Movement.

Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin (2015)
Journal Article

In this article we examine the possible challenges facing the use of the concept of « care » or « taking care », when the carer is an autonomous robot, what we call an « artificial medical care agent ». In other words, we ask if robots can care. Agai... Read More about Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin.

Mobile GPGPU acceleration of embodied robot simulation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. It is desirable for a robot to be able to run on-board simulations of itself in a model of the world to evaluate action consequences and test new controller solutions, but simulation is computatio... Read More about Mobile GPGPU acceleration of embodied robot simulation.

The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours (2014)
Journal Article

We investigate the reality gap, specifically the environmental correspondence of an on-board simulator. We describe a novel distributed co-evolutionary approach to improve the transference of controllers that co-evolve with an on-board simulator. A n... Read More about The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours.

Is social norms marketing effective?: A case study in domestic electricity consumption (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present details of a large-scale experiment that evaluated the impact of communicating two types of feedback to householders regarding their domestic electricity consumption: feedback on their own consumption... Read More about Is social norms marketing effective?: A case study in domestic electricity consumption.

The distributed co-evolution of an embodied simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Embodied fitness assessment of robotic controllers is slow but grounded, while assessment in a simulated environment is fast but can run foul of the ‘reality gap’. We present a distributed co-evolutionary method to adapt the environmental model of an... Read More about The distributed co-evolution of an embodied simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours.

Gathering and presenting social feedback to change domestic electricity consumption (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper describes the CHARM Energy Study in which mobile technology is used to study the impact of social group feedback on household energy consumption. We describe the background and rationale behind the study, the technology which supports th... Read More about Gathering and presenting social feedback to change domestic electricity consumption.

Towards accelerated distributed evolution for adaptive behaviours in swarm robotics (2010)
Book Chapter

The major problem facing swarm robotics is that of design. A recent promising approach is the application of evolutionary algorithms to solve the problem of decomposing group behaviour to that of interacting individual behaviours. This paper presents... Read More about Towards accelerated distributed evolution for adaptive behaviours in swarm robotics.

Parallel data mining-case study (2010)
Report

CHARM: social norms marketing for energy efficiency (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

UK focus group research with dark/light and non-green consumers explored attitudes to a range of government, charity, manufacturer and retailer sustainability initiatives. The study explored how consumers understand the term 'green' and its relation... Read More about CHARM: social norms marketing for energy efficiency.

Engaging the public with a hybrid puppet (2009)
Journal Article

A puppet with robotic features and emotional expressions can make general audiences think about the role of machines in everyday life.

Heart robot: a public engagement project (2009)
Journal Article

Heart Robot was a public engagement project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The aim of the project was to challenge cultural perceptions of robots, and to stimulate thought and debate
in members of the gener... Read More about Heart robot: a public engagement project.

Using the XCS classifier system for multi-objective reinforcement learning problems (2007)
Journal Article

We investigate the performance of a learning classifier system in some simple multi-objective, multi-step maze problems, using both random and biased action-selection policies for exploration. Results show that the choice of action-selection policy c... Read More about Using the XCS classifier system for multi-objective reinforcement learning problems.

Accuracy-based learning classifier system ensembles with rule-sharing (2007)
Journal Article

Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) are a method of evolving compact rule-sets using reinforcement learning. This paper presents an investigation into exploiting the population-based nature of LCS for their use within highly-parallel systems, such as... Read More about Accuracy-based learning classifier system ensembles with rule-sharing.

Learning classifier system ensembles with rule-sharing (2007)
Journal Article

This paper presents an investigation into exploiting the population-based nature of learning classifier systems (LCSs) for their use within highly parallel systems. In particular, the use of simple payoff and accuracy-based LCSs within the ensemble m... Read More about Learning classifier system ensembles with rule-sharing.

Super computer heterogeneous classifier meta-ensembles (2007)
Journal Article

A comparison of DWT/PAA and DFT for time series classification (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Discrete Fourier transforms (DFT) and Haar two, PAA is identical to a Haar Wavelet transformation [61. wavelets (DWT) were proposed for the use in time series data mining over five years ago and have since proved to be popular algorithms for the tran... Read More about A comparison of DWT/PAA and DFT for time series classification.

X-TCS: Accuracy-based learning classifier system robotics (2005)
Journal Article

Although most learning classifier system (LCS) research uses the accuracy-based XCS, it had never been used to control a physical robot before. In comparison to purely evolutionary or purely reinforcement learning approaches, an LCS should be faster... Read More about X-TCS: Accuracy-based learning classifier system robotics.

On the use of rule-sharing in learning classifier system ensembles (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Attribute selection methods for filtered attribute subspace based bagging with injected randomness (FASBIR) (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Consideration of multiple objectives in neural learning classifier systems (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002. For effective use in a number of problem domains Learning Classifier Systems must be able to manage multiple objectives. This paper explicitly considers the case of developing the controller for a simulated m... Read More about Consideration of multiple objectives in neural learning classifier systems.