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Comparison of ant-inspired gatherer allocation approaches using memristor-based environmental models (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Memristors are used to compare three gathering techniques in an already-mapped environment where resource locations are known. The All Site model, which apportions gatherers based on the modeled memristance of that path, proves to be good at increasi... Read More about Comparison of ant-inspired gatherer allocation approaches using memristor-based environmental models.

Logical and arithmetic circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated disks (2011)
Journal Article

Excitation waves on a subexcitable Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) substrate can be manipulated by chemical variations in the substrate and by interactions with other waves. Symbolic assignment and interpretation of wave dynamics can be used to perform log... Read More about Logical and arithmetic circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated disks.

Neuromorphic computing with memristors: Preliminary experimental results (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Individual memristors have been observed demonstrating neuron-like spiking patterns. It has been shown
elsewhere that memristors provide superior modelling for neurons then the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Due to
these results we expect memristors to be e... Read More about Neuromorphic computing with memristors: Preliminary experimental results.

Multi-scale integration of slope data on an irregular mesh (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Biology and computing (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Memristors, the recently discovered 4th fundamental circuit element, have been used as models for biological components, such as neurons. It may be that neurons are memristors, rather than just conveniently modeled by them. This presentation covers r... Read More about Biology and computing.

The effects of robot performed co-verbal gestures on listener behaviour (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Twins 3D face recognition challenge (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Existing 3D face recognition algorithms have achieved high enough performances against public datasets like FRGC v2, that it is difficult to achieve further significant increases in recognition performance. However, the 3D TEC dataset is a more chall... Read More about Twins 3D face recognition challenge.

Biological indexes based reflectional asymmetry for classifying cutaneous lesions (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper proposes a novel reflectional asymmetry descriptor to quantize the asymmetry of the cutaneous lesions for the discrimination of malignant melanoma from benign nevi. A pigmentation elevation model of the biological indexes is first construc... Read More about Biological indexes based reflectional asymmetry for classifying cutaneous lesions.

On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium (2011)
Journal Article

We introduce results of computer experiments on information processing in a hexagonal array of vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) solution in a sub-excitable mode. We represent values of Boolean variables by excitation wave-fragments and... Read More about On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium.

Development of a novel robotic system for hand rehabilitation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Rehabilitation Robotics involves the use of robotic systems as an enabling technology for people with kinetic problems, in order to help them recover from a physical trauma. This paper presents the investigation of a robotic system for stroke and pos... Read More about Development of a novel robotic system for hand rehabilitation.

Imitation learning of human grasping skills from motion and force data (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Occupancy grid-based SLAM using a mobile robot with a ring of eight sonar transducers (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The degree of accuracy by which a mobile robot can estimate the properties of its surrounding environment, and the ability to successfully navigate throughout the explored space are the main factors that may well determine its autonomy and efficiency... Read More about Occupancy grid-based SLAM using a mobile robot with a ring of eight sonar transducers.

A system for anatomical reduction of bone fractures (2011)
Patent

For optimum healing of bone fractures in the human body, to ensure that the bone and surrounding joints are able to function correctly again, the fragments of the broken bone must be subjected to an anatomical reduction, which involves positioning an... Read More about A system for anatomical reduction of bone fractures.

Artificial active whiskers for guiding underwater autonomous walking robots (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A low-cost, biologically inspired underwater walking robot (see Fig. 1) has been designed and built to covertly explore the seabed and to determine properties of submerged objects in obscure and inaccessible underwater locations. This paper focuses o... Read More about Artificial active whiskers for guiding underwater autonomous walking robots.

Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a number of related novel methods for reducing the dimensionality of data for the purposes of 2D and 3D face recognition. Results from psychology show that humans are capable of very good recognition of low resolution images and caricature... Read More about Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition.

Using photometric stereo for face recognition (2011)
Journal Article

Affective robotics: Human motion and behavioural inspiration for safe cooperation between humans and humanoid assistive robots (2011)
Book Chapter

Object localisation using active whiskers on underwater autonomous walking robot (2011)
Book Chapter

A low-cost, biologically inspired underwater walking robot (see Fig. 1) has been designed and built to covertly explore the seabed and to determine properties of submerged objects in obscure and inaccessible underwater locations. This paper focuses o... Read More about Object localisation using active whiskers on underwater autonomous walking robot.

Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata (2011)
Journal Article

Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata - finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting, excited, refracto... Read More about Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata.

Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

By a comparison between memristors made with aluminium and gold electrodes, this letter demonstrates that aluminium electrodes are an essential component of the TiO$_2$ sol-gel flexible memristor . Both slow varying `analogue' and sudden switching `d... Read More about Aluminium electrodes effect the operation of titanium oxide sol-gel memristors.