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Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. Humor in robotics is a promising, though not yet significantly researched topic. We performed a user study exploring two different kinds of laughter. In our study, participants observed a robot-robot interaction where an iCat and a NAO r... Read More about Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability.

The Symmetry of Partner Modelling (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common... Read More about The Symmetry of Partner Modelling.

Bio-development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach (2013)
Journal Article

Plasmodium of a cellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a very large eukaryotic microbe visible to the unaided eye. During its foraging behavior the plasmodium spans sources of nutrients with a network of protoplasmic tubes. In this paper we at... Read More about Bio-development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach.

On loading slime mould Physarum polycephalum with metallic particles
Journal Article

Plasmodium \emph{Physarum polycephalum} is a large single cell visible with the naked eye. When inoculated on a substrate with attractants and repellents the plasmodium develops optimal networks of protoplasmic tubes which span sites of attractants (... Read More about On loading slime mould Physarum polycephalum with metallic particles.

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.

Does the D.C. response of memristors allow robotic short-term memory and a possible route to artificial time perception? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Time perception is essential for task switching, and in the mammalian brain appears alongside other processes. Memristors are electronic components used as synapses and as models for neurons. The d.c. response of memristors can be considered as a typ... Read More about Does the D.C. response of memristors allow robotic short-term memory and a possible route to artificial time perception?.

Design of a hybrid robot control system using memristor-model and ant-inspired based information transfer protocols (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It is not always possible for a robot to process all the information from its sensors in a timely manner and thus quick and yet valid approximations of the robot's situation are needed. Here we design hybrid control for a robot within this limit usin... Read More about Design of a hybrid robot control system using memristor-model and ant-inspired based information transfer protocols.

Real-time recovery of moving 3D faces for emerging applications (2013)
Journal Article

Existing face imaging systems are not suitable to meet the face representation and recognition demands for emerging applications in areas such as interactive gaming, enhanced learning environments and directed advertising. This is mainly due to the p... Read More about Real-time recovery of moving 3D faces for emerging applications.

Robust 3D face capture using example-based photometric stereo (2013)
Journal Article

We show that using example-based photometric stereo, it is possible to achieve realistic reconstructions of the human face. The method can handle non-Lambertian reflectance and attached shadows after a simple calibration step. We use spherical harmon... Read More about Robust 3D face capture using example-based photometric stereo.

Novel approaches for the safety of human-robot interaction
Thesis

In recent years there has been a concerted effort to address many of the safety issues associated with physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). However, a number of challenges remain. For personal robots, and those intended to operate in unstructur... Read More about Novel approaches for the safety of human-robot interaction.

An improved 3D imaging system for dimensional quality inspection of rolled products in the metal industry (2013)
Journal Article

Measurement, inspection and quality control in industry have benefited from 3D techniques for imaging and visualization in recent years. The development of machine vision devices at decreased costs, as well as their miniaturization and integration in... Read More about An improved 3D imaging system for dimensional quality inspection of rolled products in the metal industry.

Physarum machines for space missions (2013)
Journal Article

A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in plasmodium Physarum polycephalum. We overview a range of tasks solvable by Physarum machines and speculate on how the Physarum machines could be used in... Read More about Physarum machines for space missions.

Observation, characterization and modeling of memristor current spikes (2013)
Journal Article

Memristors have been compared to neurons (usually specifically the synapses) since 1976 but no experimental evidence has been offered for support for this position. Here we highlight that memristors naturally form fast-response, highly reproducible a... Read More about Observation, characterization and modeling of memristor current spikes.

Using Embodied Multimodal Fusion to Perform Supportive and Instructive Robot Roles in Human-Robot Interaction (2013)
Journal Article

We present a robot that is working with humans on a common construction task. In this kind of interaction, it is important that the robot can perform different roles in order to realise an efficient collaboration. For this, we introduce embodied mult... Read More about Using Embodied Multimodal Fusion to Perform Supportive and Instructive Robot Roles in Human-Robot Interaction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Slime extralligence: Developing a wearable sensorial and computing network with physarum polycephalum
Preprint / Working Paper

We proposed, and partly implement in laboratory conditions, an intelligent adaptive living network wearable by humans and robots. When grown on 3D bodies (living or inanimate) the living Physarum network provide a highly-distributed sensorial struc... Read More about Slime extralligence: Developing a wearable sensorial and computing network with physarum polycephalum.

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.