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In vivo measurement of skin microrelief using photometric stereo in the presence of interreflections (2013)
Journal Article
This paper proposes and describes an implementation of a novel photometric stereo based technique for in vivo assessment of three-dimensional (3D) skin topography
in the presence of interreflections. The proposed method illuminates skin with red, gr... Read More about In vivo measurement of skin microrelief using photometric stereo in the presence of interreflections.
Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media (2013)
Book Chapter
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. Turing presented a general representation scheme by which to achieve artificial intelligence – unorganised machines. Significantly, these were a form of discrete dynamical system and yet such representations... Read More about Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media.
Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans (2012)
Journal Article
Robots should be capable of interacting in a cooperative and adaptive manner with their human counterparts in open-ended tasks that can change in real-time. An important aspect of the robot behavior will be the ability to acquire new knowledge of the... Read More about Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans.
Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The emerging field of soft robotics offers the prospect of replacing existing hard actuator technologies with new soft-smart materials [7]. Such materials have the potential to form a key component of safer, more compliant and light-weight robots. So... Read More about Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots.
TACTIP - Tactile fingertip device, challenges in reduction of size to ready for robot hand integration (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Previous work on the TACTIP project has demonstrated a prototype tactile fingertip device, at a little over twice the diameter(40mm) of a human fingertip (16-20mm). Unlike most other developed MEMS sensors, the TACTIP device is appropriate for all ta... Read More about TACTIP - Tactile fingertip device, challenges in reduction of size to ready for robot hand integration.
Dynamic deflectometry: A novel approach for the on-line reconstruction of specular freeform surfaces (2012)
Journal Article
The dynamic inspection and reverse engineering of specular freeform surfaces is a challenge so far largely unsolved. Products produced in high quantities in industrial environments are still inspected manually which is labour intensive, expensive, mo... Read More about Dynamic deflectometry: A novel approach for the on-line reconstruction of specular freeform surfaces.
The effect of electrode size on memristor properties: An experimental and theoretical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor (2012)
Journal Article
The ability to localise harder areas in soft tissues is often desired during robot-assisted surgical operations. A deformation-based tactile feedback system was tested for the detection of objects within soft tissues, after being chosen over common p... Read More about Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor.
Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot (2012)
Journal Article
The paradigm case for robotic mapping assumes large quantities of sensory information which allow the use of relatively weak priors. In contrast, the present study considers the mapping problem for a mobile robot, CrunchBot, where only sparse, local... Read More about Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot.
Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art components for computer vision, linguistic processing, state managemen... Read More about Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent.
Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Variable compliance is a subject of great interest in the robotics community, particularly in the area of HumanRobot interaction. In this work, variable compliance is achieved in a novel grasping device inspired by the hydrostatic skeletons of invert... Read More about Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper.
Evolution of plastic learning in spiking networks via memristive connections (2012)
Journal Article
This paper presents a spiking neuroevolutionary system which implements memristors as plastic connections, i.e., whose weights can vary during a trial. The evolutionary design process exploits parameter self-adaptation and variable topologies, allowi... Read More about Evolution of plastic learning in spiking networks via memristive connections.
Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tactile sensing can be an important source of
information for robots, and texture discrimination in partic-
ular is useful in object recognition and terrain identification.
Whisker based tactile sensing has recently been shown to be
a promising a... Read More about Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry.
Towards robotic re-embodiment using a brain-and-body-computer interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bioevaluation of world transport networks (2012)
Book
Creating unorganised machines from memristors (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
An internal model architecture for novelty detection: Implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in sensory processing (2012)
Journal Article
The cerebellum is thought to implement internal models for sensory prediction, but details of the underlying circuitry are currently obscure. We therefore investigated a specific example of internal-model based sensory prediction, namely detection of... Read More about An internal model architecture for novelty detection: Implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in sensory processing.
Observation and characterization of memristor current spikes and their application to neuromorphic computation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Combinatorial photometric stereo and its application in 3D modeling of melanoma (2012)
Journal Article
This article concerns a new type of photometric stereo algorithm for which outliers such as highlights and shadows, including attached and cast shadow, are mixed with Lambertian data. The underlying motivation behind this algorithm is very simple: an... Read More about Combinatorial photometric stereo and its application in 3D modeling of melanoma.