Outputs (46)

How can I help you? Comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A robot agent existing in the physical world must be able to understand the social states of the human users it interacts with in order to respond appropriately. We compared two implemented methods for estimating the engagement state of customers for... Read More about How can I help you? Comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender.

Dynamic polarisation reveals differential steady-state stabilisation and capacitive-like behaviour in microbial fuel cells (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper we present several preliminary results produced with a purposely-designed external-resistor (R ext ) sweeping tool for microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Fast sampling rates show that MFCs exhibit differential steady-state stabilisation behav... Read More about Dynamic polarisation reveals differential steady-state stabilisation and capacitive-like behaviour in microbial fuel cells.

Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Being able to recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including social robotics. The recently developed commodity depth sensors open up newpossibilities of dealingwith this problem. Existing techniques extract hand-tuned fea... Read More about Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data.

Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors (2013)
Journal Article

The fabrication of memristors by drop-coating sol-gel Ti(OH)4 solution onto either aluminium foil or sputter-coated aluminium on plastic is presented. The gel layer is thick, 37 μm, but both devices exhibit good memristance I-V profiles. The drop coa... Read More about Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors.

Using memristors to handle cell failures in flexible networks: From programmed cell death to zombies (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Within a network, cells may fail in multiple ways. It is important that such cells be both identified and isolated from the network as a whole to both allow the failing cell's tasks to be reallocated and for the prevention of cascade failures where a... Read More about Using memristors to handle cell failures in flexible networks: From programmed cell death to zombies.

Nano-assembly with cells from particle interaction based on collisions of mobile localizations in cellular automata (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An automatic process is proposed by construct nano-assambly devices, derived from a set of synchorinsed collisions between multiple particles, such an automation is based on programming regular expressions and finite state machines.

The power of glove: Soft microbial fuel cell for low-power electronics (2013)
Journal Article

A novel, soft microbial fuel cell (MFC) has been constructed using the finger-piece of a standard laboratory natural rubber latex glove. The natural rubber serves as structural and proton exchange material whilst untreated carbon veil is used for the... Read More about The power of glove: Soft microbial fuel cell for low-power electronics.

Bootstrapping a robot's kinematic model (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a system that is able to autonomously build a 3D model of a robot's hand, along with a kinematic model of the robot's arm, beginning with very little information. The system starts by using exploratory motions to locate and centre the robo... Read More about Bootstrapping a robot's kinematic model.

Simultaneous localisation and mapping on a multi-degree of freedom biomimetic whiskered robot (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A biomimetic mobile robot called 'Shrewbot' has been built as part of a neuroethological study of the mammalian facial whisker sensory system. This platform has been used to further evaluate the problem space of whisker based tactile Simultaneous Loc... Read More about Simultaneous localisation and mapping on a multi-degree of freedom biomimetic whiskered robot.

Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Good performance in unstructured/uncertain environments is an ongoing problem in robotics; in biology, it is an everyday observation. Here, we model a particular biological system - hunting in the Etruscan shrew - as a case study in biomimetic robot... Read More about Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture.

Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Communication between socially assistive robots and humans might be facilitated by intuitively understandable mechanisms. To investigate the effects of some key nonverbal gestures on a human's own engagement and robot engagement experienced by humans... Read More about Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge.

Joint conferences - TAROS 2012 and FIRA 2012 (2013)
Journal Article

This special issue contains ten extended, peer-reviewed papers specially selected from 36 full papers [1] and presented at the joint conferences of TAROS 2012 (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2012) and FIRA 2012 (the Robot World Congress of the F... Read More about Joint conferences - TAROS 2012 and FIRA 2012.

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.

A comparison of evaluation measures for emotion recognition in dimensional space (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paramecium is covered by cilia. It uses the cilia to swim and transport food particles to its mouth. The cilia are synchronised into a collective action by propagating membrane potential and mechan- ical properties of their underlying membrane and th... Read More about Metachronal waves in cellular automata: Cilia-like manipulation in actuator arrays.

The triangle of life: Evolving robots in real-time and real-space (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Evolutionary robotics is heading towards fully embodied evolution in real-time and real-space. In this paper we introduce the Triangle of Life, a generic conceptual framework for such systems in which robots can actually reproduce. This framework can... Read More about The triangle of life: Evolving robots in real-time and real-space.

UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s can control their altitude and orientation using the horizon as a reference. Typically this task is performed via edge-detection vision processing techniques implemented in a computer or digital electronics. We demonst... Read More about UAV horizon tracking using memristors and cellular automata visual processing.

BRDF estimation for faces from a sparse dataset using a neural network (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a novel �ve source near-infrared photometric
stereo 3D face capture device. The accuracy of the system is demonstrated by a comparison with ground truth from a commercial 3D scanner. We also use the data from the �ve captured images to mo... Read More about BRDF estimation for faces from a sparse dataset using a neural network.

Development of a new 6 DOF parallel haptic interface for the rendering of elements and interior equipment in a car (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A BCI using VEP for continuous control of a mobile robot (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution