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Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support (2018)
Journal Article

With the growing congestion in the airspace, Air Traffic Management(ATM) requires advances in massive data processing, sophisticated avionics techniques, coordination with weather updates, and assessment of multiple types of uncertainty. The complex... Read More about Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support.

Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 IEEE. Enhancing transparency of a teleoperation system by increasing the command-following bandwidth has not received lots of attention so far. This is considered a challenging task since in a teleoperation system the command-following bandwid... Read More about Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation.

The Dark Side of Ethical Robots (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 ACM. Concerns over the risks associated with advances in Artificial Intelligence have prompted calls for greater efforts toward robust and beneficial AI, including machine ethics. Recently, roboticists have responded by initiating the developm... Read More about The Dark Side of Ethical Robots.

Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language (2018)
Book

This book describes CoSMoS (Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation), a pattern-based approach to engineering trustworthy simulations that are both scientifically useful to the researcher and scientifically credible to third parties. This approach e... Read More about Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language.

Head-raising of snake robots based on a predefined spiral curve method (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. A snake robot has to raise its head to acquire a wide visual space for planning complex tasks such as inspecting unknown environments, tracking a flying object and acting as a manipulator with its raising part. However, only a... Read More about Head-raising of snake robots based on a predefined spiral curve method.

The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Lemaignan et al. The study of the fine-grained social dynamics between children is a methodological challenge, yet a good understanding of how social interaction between children unfolds is important not only to Developmental and Social Psycho... Read More about The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics.

Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This paper explores the question of ethical governance for robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. We outline a roadmap-which links a number of elements, including e... Read More about Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

Audio Localization for Robots Using Parallel Cerebellar Models (2018)
Journal Article

© 2016 IEEE. A robot audio localization system is presented that combines the outputs of multiple adaptive filter models of the Cerebellum to calibrate a robot's audio map for various acoustic environments. The system is inspired by the MOdular Selec... Read More about Audio Localization for Robots Using Parallel Cerebellar Models.

Lyapunov observer/controller for stable haptic interaction (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 IEEE. Passivity has been the most common tool to achieve stability in haptic and teleoperation systems; however passivity-based approaches suffer from the conservativism of passivity criteria. Therefore, it is essential to have an approach whi... Read More about Lyapunov observer/controller for stable haptic interaction.

Mapping Intelligence: Requirements and Possibilities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. New types of artificial intelligence (AI), from cognitive assistants to social robots, are challenging meaningful comparison with other kinds of intelligence. How can such intelligent systems be catalogued, eval... Read More about Mapping Intelligence: Requirements and Possibilities.

Research for alternative material and its effect on seed germination in seed tapes products (2018)
Thesis

‘Seed tapes’ are a length of biodegradable tissue paper, acting as a carrier, containing seeds. The seed tape is unrolled into a shallow trench and covered with soil, ensuring that all seeds are planted at even intervals. Manufacturers in the seed ta... Read More about Research for alternative material and its effect on seed germination in seed tapes products.

Confidence in uncertainty: Error cost and commitment in early speech hypotheses (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Loth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credi... Read More about Confidence in uncertainty: Error cost and commitment in early speech hypotheses.

Towards a cognitive architecture incorporating human feedback for interactive collaborative robots (2018)
Journal Article

The development of new collaborative robotic platforms opens the new possibility of human-robot collaborative scenarios provided that they are controlled by excellent control programs. Interactive collaborative robots need to be autonomous and posses... Read More about Towards a cognitive architecture incorporating human feedback for interactive collaborative robots.

Combining opinion pooling and evidential updating for multi-agent consensus (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The evidence available to a multi-agent system can take at least two distinct forms. There can be direct evidence from the environment resulting, for example, from sensor measurements or from running tests or experiments. In addition, agents also gai... Read More about Combining opinion pooling and evidential updating for multi-agent consensus.

Exploration of muscle fatigue effects in bioinspired robot learning from sEMG signals (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Ning Wang et al. To investigate the effects of muscle fatigue on bioinspired robot learning quality in teaching by demonstration (TbD) tasks, in this work, we propose to first identify the emerging muscle fatigue phenomenon of the human demons... Read More about Exploration of muscle fatigue effects in bioinspired robot learning from sEMG signals.

Modelling of a Bio-Inspired Knee Joint and Design of an Energy Saving Exoskeleton Based on Performance Maps Optimisation for Condylar Knee Prosthetics (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 IEEE. The process of designing bio-inspired knee joint for prosthetics/exoskeletons has been a challenging issue due to the complicated relationships between the performance criteria and the link lengths of the design space, or workspace in th... Read More about Modelling of a Bio-Inspired Knee Joint and Design of an Energy Saving Exoskeleton Based on Performance Maps Optimisation for Condylar Knee Prosthetics.

Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance (2018)
Journal Article

© Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Claire A.G.J. Huijnen, and Herjan van den Heuvel. This article reports findings from a usability and user experience evaluations conducted in the last 2 years of a 4-year assistive robotics research project u... Read More about Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance.

Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy (2018)
Thesis

Examination of the gastrointestinal(GI) tract has traditionally been performed using tethered endoscopy tools with limited reach and more recently with passive untethered capsule endoscopy with limited capability. Inspection of small intestines is on... Read More about Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy.

ROS-Unity3D based system for monitoring of an industrial robotic process (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. Planning and monitoring the manufacturing of high quality one-of-a-kind products are challenging tasks. In the implementation of an industrial system, the commissioning phase is typically comprised of a programming phase and an optimizat... Read More about ROS-Unity3D based system for monitoring of an industrial robotic process.

Simulation-based internal models for safer robots (2018)
Journal Article

In this paper, we explore the potential of mobile robots with simulation-based internal models for safety in highly dynamic environments. We propose a robot with a simulation of itself, other dynamic actors and its environment, inside itself. Operati... Read More about Simulation-based internal models for safer robots.