Outputs (35)

Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Open Science is an approach to the conduct of science in which the whole of an ongoing scientific investigation – data, ideas, questions, plans, results and more – is made available online. Open Science began as a way to facilitate the workings of mu... Read More about Muddying the waters or clearing the stream? Open Science as a communication medium.

Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a simple decentralised morphology control mechanism for a swarm of self-assembling robots. Each robot in the system is fully autonomous and controlled using a behaviour-based approach with only infrared-based local sensing and com... Read More about Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications.

On open science and public engagement with engineering (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Open Science is an emerging approach to the conduct of science, technology and engineering projects, in which information about the whole of an ongoing investigation is made available on and through the Internet. Adopting an Open Science approach mea... Read More about On open science and public engagement with engineering.

Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems (2010)
Journal Article

Understanding the effect of individual parameters on the collective performance of swarm robotic systems in order to design and optimize individual robot behaviors is a significant challenge. In this paper we present a macroscopic probabilistic model... Read More about Modeling and optimization of adaptive foraging in swarm robotic systems.

You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you (2010)
Book Chapter

The projected ubiquity of personal companion robots raises a range of interesting but also challenging questions. There can be little doubt that an effective artificial companion, whether embodied or not, will need to be both sensitive to the emotion... Read More about You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you.

Foraging robots (2009)
Book Chapter

A macroscopic probabilistic model of adaptive foraging in swarm robotics systems (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we extend a macroscopic probabilistic model of a swarm of foraging robots from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous case. In the swarm, each robot is capable of adjusting its searching time and resting time thresholds following the rul... Read More about A macroscopic probabilistic model of adaptive foraging in swarm robotics systems.

Modelling a wireless connected swarm of mobile robots (2008)
Journal Article

It is a characteristic of swarm robotics that modelling the overall swarm behaviour in terms of the low-level behaviours of individual robots is very difficult. Yet if swarm robotics is to make the transition from the laboratory to real-world enginee... Read More about Modelling a wireless connected swarm of mobile robots.

A feasibility study for energy autonomy in multi robot search and rescue operations (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper proposes a novel search and rescue concept that aims to overcome the most basic obstacle in utilising a search and rescue teleoperated robot for a long distance energy autonomy. The concept utilizes a number of small robots capable of crea... Read More about A feasibility study for energy autonomy in multi robot search and rescue operations.

Towards energy optimization: Emergent task allocation in a swarm of foraging robots (2007)
Journal Article

This article presents a simple adaptation mechanism to automatically adjust the ratio of foragers to resters (division of labor) in a swarm of foraging robots and hence maximize the net energy income to the swarm. Three adaptation rules are introduce... Read More about Towards energy optimization: Emergent task allocation in a swarm of foraging robots.

A methodology for provably stable behaviour-based intelligent control (2006)
Journal Article

This paper presents a design methodology for a class of behaviour-based control systems, arguing its potential for application to safety critical systems. We propose a formal basis for subsumption architecture design based on two extensions to Lyapun... Read More about A methodology for provably stable behaviour-based intelligent control.

On formal specification of emergent behaviours in swarm robotic systems (2005)
Journal Article

Robot thought (2005)
Exhibition / Performance

Robot Thought is a performance piece designed to promote discusion amongst 5 -11 year old children and their families of the role that robots already play and might play in society. It was first performed at Explore, Bristol's interactive science cen... Read More about Robot thought.

Towards dependable swarms and new discipline of swarm engineering (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The original shorter paper was given as an invited talk at the SAB '04 workshop on Swarm Robotics. Selected papers were invited to be extended and following further full review were published in this volume in the highly-regarded 'state of the art re... Read More about Towards dependable swarms and new discipline of swarm engineering.

Implementation of an IR approach for autonomous docking in a self-configurable robotics system
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents an IR approach to the development of a sensor system which enables robots to autonomously dock with each other to form complex morphologies.
The system includes three sub-units with different operational ranges: a short range pro... Read More about Implementation of an IR approach for autonomous docking in a self-configurable robotics system.